Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Out of Town

The Battle for Britain’s Roads

By Ben Fried | Jan 15, 2008 | 9 Comments

Streetsblog reader George Henik directs our attention to the excellent new BBC documentary "Road Rage," a British version of Contested Streets — minus the advocacy — that examines the intensifying conflict between motorists, cyclists, and pedestrians in the UK. The Beeb describes the situation as a war of succession: For 40 years, Britain’s motorists have […]

Bikes Outsell Cars Down Under

By Ben Fried | Jan 15, 2008 | 10 Comments

Cyclists queue up on Brunswick Street in Melbourne. Australians bought more bikes than cars last year by a record 40 percent margin, according to a report released this week by the Cycling Promotion Fund. It was the eighth straight year bike sales topped auto sales, bolstering appeals to re-direct government spending toward bike-ped projects, such […]

Nano Technology

By Sarah Goodyear | Jan 14, 2008 | 10 Comments

The much-hyped and much-criticized Tata Nano, a car that will hit the Indian market retailing for a mere 100,000 rupees — the equivalent of $2,500 — got a perplexing nod of approval from the Economist newsmagazine last week: Commuting in India’s cities can be both cosy and deadly. Children squeeze snugly between father at the […]

When It Comes to Auto Supremacy, No Island Is an Island

By Brad Aaron | Jan 7, 2008 | 14 Comments

Through circumstances too convoluted to go into here, I found myself on a huge cruise ship over the holiday break, bound for the Eastern Caribbean. Our first port of call was San Juan, Puerto Rico, which is much the same as Aaron Naparstek left it two years ago: [Old San Juan’s] biggest assets are these […]

Kitty Justice: The Thai Solution for Police Parking Placard Abuse

By Aaron Naparstek | Jan 3, 2008 | 3 Comments

Top brass at the NYPD usually (but not always) cast a blind eye toward police officers who show disregard for the city’s parking regulations. It’s a sharp contrast to the NYPD’s "broken windows" school of policing, which promotes aggressive enforcement against minor scofflaws (like my friend Katie who recently spent a night in the box […]

This Holiday Season London’s Streets Are “Absolutely Jammed”

By Aaron Naparstek | Dec 10, 2007 | 26 Comments

London retailers enjoyed a £100 million spending spree as Oxford, Bond and Regents Streets were closed to motor vehicle traffic for a day As New York City government issues its usual series of futile Holiday Season "Gridlock Alerts" (Warning to people stuck in traffic: You are stuck in traffic) while Manhattan shoppers have the life […]

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