Recent Streetsblog LA posts about Car Culture

UK Campaign Drives Home the Cost of Reckless Driving

By Brad Aaron | Feb 17, 2009 | 1 Comment

Warning: Graphic video On the heels of TA’s report on the human toll of driving too fast, we bring you this highly disturbing ad from the UK Department for Transport’s THINK! campaign, showing the difference a few miles-per-hour can make when it comes to avoiding a collision. Ideally material like this (Australia has a similar […]

City Council to Vote on Two Speed Limit Raises Tomorrow

By Damien Newton | Jan 26, 2009 | No Comments

Lookout valley residents on living on or pedestrians walking along Saticoy Street or White Oak Avenue. In an effort to better enforce traffic laws, the Los Angeles City Council is voting on an ordinance that will raise speed limits on these streets. Each road will see the limit increase from 35 miles per hour to […]

Resilient Cities Authors Visit Los Angeles

By Damien Newton | Jan 16, 2009 | 2 Comments

Yesterday, the City of Los Angeles had two visitors, one from Australia, Professor Peter Newman, and another from Virginia, University of Virginia professor Timoth Beatley, to warn us that we have a lot of work to do to prepare Los Angeles for a future where our culture isn’t based around the automobile. Our visitors were […]

Two Oil Guzzling Albatrosses for the Price of One?

By Ben Fried | Nov 24, 2008 | No Comments

Detroit’s customer incentives have had an air of desperation for a while. With Big Three bankruptcy looking more likely every day, some dealers — like this one in Pembroke Pines, Florida — are venturing into liquidation sale territory (and then some). You read that right: Two Dodge Rams for the price of one. Tow the […]

Sign of the Times: Unsold Cars Piling up at Port of Long Beach

By Damien Newton | Nov 21, 2008 | 4 Comments

Unwanted Cars Gather Together to Commiserate While the Big Three continue to insist that the proposed $25 billion bailout should be thought of as a "bridge loan," the Daily Breeze paints a much different picture. Americans’ unwillingness or inability to buy new cars is effecting more than just domestic car makers. The nation’s deepening economic […]

As L.A. Auto Show Opens, Which Green Can Save Industry?

By Damien Newton | Nov 19, 2008 | No Comments

What a difference a year makes. Last year, the online publication CNET proclaimed of the 2007 Los Angeles Auto Show: The Los Angeles Auto Show’s star grows brighter year by year, marking it as one of the more important auto shows worldwide. And it’s no wonder, considering how much time Angelenos spend in their cars. […]

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