Recent Streetsblog LA posts about Car Culture

Opening Day at the Ol’ Parking Lot

By Damien Newton | Apr 13, 2009 | 2 Comments

…not green. Photo:eating grass/Flickr Just in time for Opening Day, the Los Angeles Dodgers sent out a press release announcing their efforts to make people’s experiences at the ballpark more "family-friendly." Presuming, of course, that family owns a car. After the Dodgers famously stiffed transit riders by refusing to lift a finger to continue transit […]

GM and Segway Unveil La-Z-Boy on Wheels

By Matthew Roth | Apr 8, 2009 | 4 Comments

A revolutionary personal mobility device. Hint: it’s NOT the couple in the foreground I’d be laughing right now if I could just stop crying. I thought billions in taxpayer money and Wagoner’s presidential dismissal were supposed to mark the end of General Motors’ bad plans, and I naively hoped the company would replace Dummers with […]

We’ll Find a Place in the Sun…

By Damien Newton | Apr 6, 2009 | 1 Comment

Over and over again, I hear from transportation planners and leaders at LADOT, Metro, and beyond that Livable Streets projects can’t move forward because we would take away space from cars. If you follow that view, you’re basically saying that the people that use their cars are the ones doing the right things, living their […]

Dodgers Won’t Lift a Finger to Save Dodger Trolley

By Damien Newton | Mar 16, 2009 | 7 Comments

Jackie Robinson could take transit to the stadium in Brooklyn; but these Trolley Dodgers won’t have a trolley. Blogdowntown reports that the chances that transit service comes back to Dodger Stadium are about the same as the Dodgers clearing out parking spaces for helicopter parking. Despite a verbal commitment to the City Council last year […]

Metro’s “Street Life” in Koreatown

By Damien Newton | Mar 12, 2009 | 6 Comments

Earlier this month, Metro released the eighteenth in a series of posters commissioned by Metro Art focusing on the communities that Metro services. This poster of Koreatown is actually a photo collage by by local artist Kyungmi Shin that seeks to capture a day in the life of Koreatown. From Metro’s press release: As seen […]

Campaign Enlists Comedians to Curb Reckless Teen Driving

By Brad Aaron | Mar 9, 2009 | 13 Comments

The Ad Council has some new material in its campaign aimed at teenage drivers. In these spots, a comedic actor (Fred Willard in the ad above) in the backseat of a car with three teens cajoles or threatens the driver into slowing down or minding the road. The gist of the campaign, corresponding with the […]

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