Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Public Health

Study: Kids Who Live Near Freeways Have Trouble Breathing

By Sarah Goodyear | Jan 30, 2007 | 10 Comments

A new study to be published in the Feb. 17 issue of the Lancet makes a strong case for the link between proximity to vehicular traffic and poor lung function in children. An article on Medical News Today sums up the report, which is currently available online to Lancet subscribers. [R]esearchers at the Keck School […]

Does Vehicular Chaos Push Families Out of NYC?

By Aaron Naparstek | Jan 15, 2007 | 10 Comments

Streetsblog contributor Charles Komanoff had an excellent letter in the New York Times on Sunday in response to the article about Sara Robbins, the Brooklyn Heights woman tragically, horrifyingly killed by a private sanitation truck last month: To the Editor: Your reporting in "A Death in the Family" (Dec. 24) makes clear that the traffic […]

Public Health and Livable Streets: Making the Connection

By Charles Komanoff | Jan 11, 2007 | 5 Comments

Thirty years ago the health arguments against car-dependence were 90 percent about air pollution and 10 percent about physical inactivity. Now, with tailpipe pollution down and obesity and diabetes up, those percentages are reversed. The latest evidence is a valuable new report, Steps to Get New Yorkers Moving (PDF file), from the Public Health Association […]

Bicoastal Garbage Disposal Practices

By Aaron Donovan | Jan 11, 2007 | 11 Comments

Via a Streetsblog tipster: In Valley Village, Calif., near L.A., people leave their trash in the bike lane for the convenience of the sanitation crews. Here in New York, we sometimes leave it where cars would otherwise park. Here’s a photo taken at midnight in a place where the sign says no standing from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m.

Memorializing Killed Cyclists: Is it Good for Cycling?

By Aaron Naparstek | Jan 8, 2007 | 32 Comments

Yesterday, scores of cyclists took to the streets in a memorial ride for the 14 bikers and 134 pedestrians known to have been killed by motor vehicles on the streets of New York City in 2006 (photo, right). I didn’t get to go on the ride but I heard from some who did that it […]

New German Community Models Car-Free Living

By Aaron Naparstek | Dec 22, 2006 | 2 Comments

The Vauban Department of Transportation gets to work. Schritt Tempo: Walking Speed. Freiburg, Germany is a place you need to know about if you are interested in models for reducing automobile dependence. Here is a great story by Isabelle de Pommereau from Wednesday’s Christian Science Monitor: FREIBURG, GERMANY: It’s pickup time at the Vauban kindergarten here at the edge […]

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