Recent Streetsblog LA posts about Car Culture

Nothing Says Tranquility Like the Hum of a Huge Diesel Engine

By Aaron Naparstek | Jun 25, 2009 | No Comments

The Mark Sanford scandal is a bit off topic for Streetsblog but Sean Roche at the Newton Streets & Sidewalks blog points us to this incredible passage from one of the e-mails between the South Carolina governor and his mistress in Argentina. Sanford writes: To me, and I suspect no one else on earth, there […]

Times’ Readers Freak Out at So. Pasadena School Bus Sting

By Damien Newton | Jun 19, 2009 | 19 Comments

Photo: Michel Mintaka/Flickr Last week, the South Pasadena Police Department held a traffic sting. A group of squad cars laid in wait while cars whizzed past a school bus, with lights flashing and stop sign extended. Once cars passed the bus, the police swooped in and handed out tickets like candy on Halloween to the […]

Streetfilms: Meet Veronica Moss, A.U.T.O. Lobbyist

By Clarence Eckerson Jr. | May 27, 2009 | 1 Comment

Ever wonder what folks working for sustainable transportation at the federal level are up against on K Street? For this Streetfilms exclusive, we were granted unfettered access to Veronica Moss, lobbyist for the Automobile Users Trade Organization (AUTO). Veronica gave us a few precious moments inside her SUV to talk about roads, traffic, cyclists, and […]

Krekorian Rallies with Cyclists, Council Members, Cops and Community for Safer Streets

By Damien Newton | May 7, 2009 | 8 Comments

Flanked by members of the City Council Transportation Committee, police from the Cities of Glendale and Burbank, an L.A. County Sheriff, leaders from community boards and a group of cyclists from around the city; Assemblyman Paul Krekorian strongly made his case for the passage of A.B. 766, the legislation that would empower the community to […]

Nate Silver: Is American Car Culture on the Skids?

By Brad Aaron | May 7, 2009 | No Comments

Nate Silver, the stat-mining fortune teller behind FiveThirtyEight.com, has written a piece for Esquire suggesting that Americans may be weaning themselves off their collective auto addiction. Falling gas prices aside, driving has been on the decline since late 2007, Silver notes. Taking factors like population and unemployment into account, he wonders: Could it be that […]

What’s Really Dangerous for Kids? Hint: It Has Four Wheels and a Tailpipe.

By Sarah Goodyear | May 6, 2009 | 2 Comments

Photo by pawpaw67 via Flickr. When she wrote a column for the New York Sun last year about letting her nine-year-old ride the subway on his own, Lenore Skenazy was pilloried by many as an irresponsible mom. She stuck to her guns, though, and started a blog dedicated to "sane parenting", advocating the idea that […]

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