Recent Streetsblog LA posts about Car Culture

This Week’s News Brought to You by the Auto Industry

By Damien Newton | Dec 8, 2009 | 4 Comments

Tonight at 5: Cars are awesome. Photo: SoCal63/Flickr It always fascinates me when someone tells me that the auto industry is dying because of gas prices and poor management. Not only have three of the Obama Administration’s major policy victories been aimed at propping up the industry, but even our "Green" Mayor and Governor are […]

Two Cities, Two Draggings, One Night (UpdatedL 11:16 A.M.)

By Damien Newton | Dec 3, 2009 | 11 Comments

You didn’t read that wrong. In Alhambra a seventy-eight year old man was run down in his wheelchair while crossing the street in a crosswalk. According to Alhambra police, there was no way that the driver could not have been aware that he had collided with Shih-Saing Ho’s wheelchair. From the story on ABC7 (video […]

Villaraigosa: Subsidies for People Who Can Afford a $100,000 Car Key to Our Green Future

By Damien Newton | Dec 2, 2009 | 31 Comments

The mayor has always been a fan of electricity. It seems that every year when the car show rolls into town that there’s at least one moment that makes me want to bang my head into a cement wall. Remember when the Sierra Club and other environmental groups named an SUV the "green car of […]

“The Highway to Play a Vital Role in the Progress of Civilization”

By Matthew Roth | Dec 1, 2009 | 15 Comments

Disney’s Magic Highway USA is one of the more extraordinary examples of the myopic devotion to automobility and its infrastructure I’ve ever seen. It’s probably also required viewing at the Reason Foundation and among Senator James Inhofe’s staff in Washington DC. "As in the past, the highway will continue to play a vital role in […]

New Report: Road Funding From Non-Road Users Doubled in 25 Years

By Elana Schor | Nov 24, 2009 | 2 Comments

(Image: Subsidyscope) The myth that U.S. roads "pay for themselves" thanks to user fees is a subject that’s likely familiar to many Streetsblog Capitol Hill readers — but just how much of the nation’s highway funding is provided by charging drivers? The answer may surprise even active critics of the current asphalt-centric transportation system. Between […]

New Study Quantifies High Personal Costs of Building CA Cities for Cars

By Matthew Roth | Nov 20, 2009 | 8 Comments

Click to enlarge: Annual household transportation costs in the Bay Area. (editor’s note: The section with area specific data for Southern California isn’t done yet. When it is, we’ll have a post specific to our region. In the meantime, this statewide article prepared by Matthew Roth in San Francisco is a great read.) California residents […]

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