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Swedish Support for Congestion Charge at All Time High

By Jason Varone | Mar 6, 2007 | No Comments

Reported in The Local (Sweden): Support for the congestion charge in Stockholm is greater than ever before, according to a new poll. In the poll, conducted by Skop for newspaper Stockholm City, 67 percent of those questioned said it was good that the new government had decided to reintroduce the charge. 33 percent of the […]

Green Collar Jobs for Urban America

By Jason Varone | Feb 28, 2007 | No Comments

In Oakland, California, the pathway out of poverty is the new green wave. Yes Magazine reports on a new movement for urban renewal: A "green-collar job" involves environment-friendly products or services. Construction work on a green building, organic farming, solar panel manufacturing, bicycle repair: all are "green jobs." The green-collar economy is big money, and […]

European Automakers Are Feeling the Heat

By Jason Varone | Feb 26, 2007 | 1 Comment

While the never-ending barrage of automobile advertising is as shameless as ever here in the States, European automakers are beginning to recognize that their product is perceived as harmful and destructive, not unlike cigarettes or trans-fats. The Wall Street Journal reports: Amid growing alarm over climate change and a trend in Europe toward faster, heavier […]

Streetfilms: Intersection Intervention

By Aaron Naparstek | Feb 23, 2007 | 1 Comment

Intersection InterventionA Clarence Eckerson StreetfilmRunning time: 3 minutes 56 seconds As people living in the neighborhoods around Downtown Brooklyn are learning the hard way, New York City government’s installation of pedestrian safety and traffic calming measures is remarkably slow and expensive. Even as children are dying while crossing the street in potentially preventable crashes, and […]

The Times Applauds Cycling… The Times of London, That Is.

By Charles Komanoff | Feb 23, 2007 | 7 Comments

Here’s an editorial one wouldn’t expect to see in The Times: An unabashedly pro-bicycle manifesto anointing cycling as "the cheap, green answer to so many contemporary troubles" and urging city authorities to use congestion-charging revenues to create a first-class cycling infrastructure. Alas, this remarkable editorial was published not in the New York Times, but in […]

The “Speed Lump.” Not a Typo. It’s Inexpensive Traffic Calming.

By Clarence Eckerson Jr. | Feb 22, 2007 | 6 Comments

Last week while vacationing in the Bay Area, I took a bike ride around the East Bay waterfront and discovered the land of Alameda, CA, where apparently I thought someone had humorously vandalized this sign when I rode up to it. But as I soon found out speed lumps are fact, not fiction. A cousin […]

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