Eyes on the Street: Snow Days
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When there isn’t snow on the ground where does all the black stuff go? Photo courtesty of Gowanus Lounge.
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Taxing Vehicles Based on Their Environmental Impact
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The New Zealand Herald reports: Germany’s government plans to tax cars based on emissions instead of engine size to help tackle climate change, Transport Minister Wolfgang Tiefensee said. Tiefensee told a news conference early Sunday that German and other European carmakers had to do more to protect the environment, after the head of the UN […]
Pedaling Protest Takes on Car Show
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The Chicago Tribune reports: Dressed as polar bears and Santa Claus and towing signs that read "True Patriots Don’t Burn Oil" and "Be a Hero: Drive Less," a group of bicyclists gathered Saturday in front of McCormick Place to protest the Chicago Auto Show. "We feel there are enough cars in Chicago," said Dan […]
Gridlock Sam: Avert Climate Catastrophe, Ride a Vespa®
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While Parisians are starting to complain that "an invasion of noisy scooters and motorcycles and a rise in accidents involving pedestrian and motorcyclists" is one of the "unintended consequences" of Mayor Bertrand Delanoe’s traffic reduction policies, "Gridlock" Sam Schwartz’s consulting firm just issued a report claiming that New York City could better meet its […]
Paris Set for Invasion of Self-Service Bicycles
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Expatica.com reports: Paris is bracing for a transport revolution later this year with the arrival of more than 20,000 self-service bicycles thanks to a deal between city hall and one of the world’s leading suppliers of urban advertising. A contract signed Monday with JCDecaux gives the French firm access to more than 1,600 hoardings and […]
New York New Visions Tackles “Sustainable” New York Future
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After Mayor Bloomberg’s December announcement of his PlaNYC initiative to prepare for a sustainable New York of 9 million people by 2030, New York New Visions, the group of architects and planners originally organized around Ground Zero rebuilding, announced it was expanding its scope to tackle the new challenge. Last night, in a stark white […]