Recent Streetsblog LA posts about Car Culture

State Farm Looks to Engage Cycling Community

By Damien Newton | Apr 7, 2008 | 15 Comments

Responding to criticism of an ad depicting a humiliated office worker forced to bike to his job due to high gas prices, State Farm Director of Marketing Communications Tim Van Hoof writes: I’m sorry this commercial offended anyone. State Farm has been asupporter of bicycle safety through the thousands of bicycle rodeoswe’ve held for children […]

Investor’s Magazine: Hooray for Highways! Boo for Gas Taxes!

By Damien Newton | Apr 3, 2008 | 5 Comments

The Investor’s Business Daily has written an editorial extolling the virtues of wider freeways and lower gas taxes. It’s a great piece of car culture thinking from the last century. Taken with State Farm’s advertisement bashing bike commuters as poorly dressed losers, it really shows how far we still have to go. At issue is the […]

Ad Nauseam: State Farm and the Humiliation of Biking to Work

By Damien Newton | Apr 3, 2008 | 11 Comments

Drop what you’re doing, click the "play" button and enjoy 30 seconds of outstanding car culture courtesy of State Farm. The Scene: An African American actor with a shaved head, conservative gray suit and slightly stiff demeanor asks, "Where can you find me? At the intersection of gas prices can not get any higher and […]

Spotlight on UCLA

By Damien Newton | Mar 25, 2008 | 2 Comments

As sports fans throughout the nation focus on UCLA because of its men’s basketball team, I thought we could focus on UCLA as an example of how an employer can change the commuting behavior of commuters. According to UCLA’s Transportation Services Department, Over 75,000 people come to UCLA every day and over 45% of them […]

Quote of the Day

By Damien Newton | Mar 24, 2008 | 6 Comments

The Connection Between the Costa Mesa Freeway and I-73 From an article in Today’s LA Times on the chronic congestion problems on the Costa Mesa Freeway in Orange County, an Orange County mayor comes so close to figuring out the problem with trying to widen your way out of congestion: Tustin Mayor Jerry Amante said the […]

America to the Automobile: “It’s Over”

By Damien Newton | Mar 21, 2008 | No Comments

In honor of this year’s New York International Auto Show, which officially begins today, we present this very special announcement: Ms. America to Announce “The End of the Affair” at the NY Auto Show **Saturday, March 22**10:30 a.m.Jacob Javits Center After 100 years, Lady Liberty, the perennial Ms. America, is finally ending her“spectacularly combustible […]

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