Recent Streetsblog LA posts about Car Culture

Open Thread II: Carmageddon Experiences

By Damien Newton | Jul 15, 2011 | No Comments

We got your predictions in the thread below, but as the weekend progresses feel free to let us know how/if Carmageddon is impacting your weekend. My first report is that we’re relieved that the news is recharging at the moment so that we have a couple of hours without helicopters flying overhead. Also, I got […]

Open Thread: Carmageddon Predictions

By Damien Newton | Jul 15, 2011 | 12 Comments

I’ve had more than enough chances to tell the world my thoughts on what’s going to happen this weekend, the highlight of which had to be when Warren Olney asked Supervisor Yaroslavsky if he thought L.A. drivers were idiots in response to a comment from me, but here’s your chance to make your predictions now. […]

Why Streetsblog Doesn’t Write More About Carmageddon

By Damien Newton | Jul 11, 2011 | 22 Comments

Unless you’ve been living under a rock, a rock that doesn’t have Internet service, radio, television, print publications, carrier pigeons, bike message service or regular mail, you’ve been bombarded with messages about how awful next weekend is going to be. You see, to expand the already gargantuan 405 Freeway another lane in each direction, Metro […]

This Is Your Brain on Cars—Oh, and Your Lungs and Heart and Gut, Too

By Catherine Lutz and Anne Lutz Fernandez | May 17, 2011 | No Comments

Gerontologists in a laboratory at the University of Southern California exposed a group of mice to the same atmospheric conditions that humans encounter when driving along the freeway. Horrifyingly, they discovered that the mice’s brains showed the kind of swelling and inflammation associated with diseases such as Alzheimer’s. The researchers didn’t super-dose to get these […]

Driving While Human

By Catherine Lutz and Anne Lutz Fernandez | Mar 18, 2011 | No Comments

Our local paper recently ran the story of Edith Cameron, killed in a car crash on a road we sometimes use. We anxiously scanned the column looking for that something that one of the drivers involved must have done wrong—the thing that we surely would never do, like hit the road without a seatbelt or […]

Against All Odds, the Wilbur Road Diet Is Staying (for Now)

By Damien Newton | Mar 16, 2011 | 36 Comments

For eight months now, the LADOT has been taking shots in the Valley over the a two mile road diet on Wilbur Avenue. Between Nordhoff and Chatsworth, Wilbur went from two lanes in both directions to one lane in each direction, a left turn lane, and bike lanes on both sides. Last night, representatives of […]

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