Recent Streetsblog LA posts about Car Culture

New Report Outlines How CA Can Kick Its Addiction to Oil, Foreign and Domestic

By Damien Newton | Jun 20, 2013 | 6 Comments

The government is encouraging you to drive a car, and if California is truly serious about reducing its oil dependency that needs to change. This is the unequivocal conclusion of Unraveling Ties to Petroleum a new report commissioned by Next 10 California and written by UCLA researchers Juan Matute, Director of the UCLA Local Climate Initiative, and Stephanie […]

Let’s Find a Freeway Project for Which to Advocate

By Damien Newton | May 15, 2013 | 13 Comments

Doesn’t That Look Like Fun!?!? I have to admit, I’m feeling left out. Everywhere I went today, people were talking about “710 Day.” It was all over my Inbox. My wife brought it up at lunch. The regular news reports on KFI devoted regular coverage to it throughout the day. For those of you that […]

The MyFigueroa! Doubters Speak: Fig Too Special for Cycletracks

By Damien Newton | Apr 17, 2013 | 12 Comments

After years of whispering in the ears of CRA and LADOT staff, and avoiding public comment, the opponents of the MyFigueroa! project to put a road diet, cycletracks, bike lanes, improved crosswalks and better transit facilities on South Figueroa street broke their public silence in the L.A. Downtown News . The basic argument against the […]

Scared by Dangerous Traffic? Take a Xanax

By Stephen Miller | Feb 7, 2013 | No Comments

Once in a while, a story comes along that perfectly encapsulates how dangerous traffic forces people to re-orient their lives. This example, relayed to us by a reader, comes from a recent lecture at the psychiatry department of a major Manhattan hospital about anxiety disorders in the elderly. The lecturer brought up the case of an […]

Red Bull Racing Lives the Urban Car Marketer’s Sociopathic Dream

By Stephen Miller | Sep 6, 2012 | No Comments

There are a lot of gasp-inducing moments in Red Bull Racing’s new video to promote the Formula One Grand Prix of America, scheduled for Weehawken and Union City in June 2013. First, there’s the introduction: the national anthem being played by the dulcet tones of a revving engine. Then there are shots of the driver […]

Google-Funded Pundit: Forget Transit, the Future Belongs to Robocars

By Angie Schmitt | May 16, 2012 | No Comments

Last week Salon ran a pretty horrendous piece on the future of transportation called “Oops — Wrong Future.” Writer Michael Lind argued that the “case for infrastructure investment has suffered from the lack of a plausible vision of the next American infrastructure.” Things that are not “plausible,” according to Lind, include “renewable energy and mass […]

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