Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Public Health

A Bike Company Offers a Prescription for America’s Health Care Cost Crisis

By Ben Fried | Mar 23, 2012 | 9 Comments

One of the most talked-about presentations at this week’s National Bike Summit came from Jason Gaikowski, director of sales for the Bloomington, Minnesota-based wholesale distributor Quality Bicycle Products. Over the last several years, QBP has ramped up its employee health and wellness program, which includes incentives to bike to work. At a time when most employers […]

Anti-Sprawl Doctor to Host PBS Series on Urban Design and Public Health

By Angie Schmitt | Jan 27, 2012 | No Comments

“A leading voice for better urban design for the sake of good health.” “A public health/social justice hero.” Dr. Richard Jackson, chair of environmental health at UCLA, is a leading voice for transportation reform whose work has linked America’s sprawl to the nation’s high rates of obesity. The former director of the Center for Disease […]

Maps Show Striking Link Between Car Commuting and Obesity

By Angie Schmitt | Jan 17, 2012 | No Comments

Check out these two maps, the first showing obesity rates (by county) in the United States and the second showing the percentage of commuters who travel by car (via Planetizen). Researchers Anne Price and Ariel Godwin at Planetizen caution readers not to conflate correlation and causation. However, when comparing other economic and demographic characteristics (unemployment, […]

Strong Majority Supports Protected Bike Lanes at East Harlem Hearing

By Noah Kazis | Dec 7, 2011 | 25 Comments

At a long and at points contentious public hearing last night, a clear majority of speakers came out in support of protected bike lanes on First and Second Avenues in East Harlem. In addition to local residents, the public health community came out in force to demolish the opposition’s claim that installing bike lanes could […]

Doctors’ Note Says Complete Streets Are Vital to New York’s Health

By Brad Aaron | Sep 22, 2011 | 4 Comments

Transportation Alternatives and the New York Chapter of the American Association of Family Physicians today released a letter to Mayor Bloomberg, signed by 140 medical professionals from a broad spectrum of specialties, praising the city’s bike and pedestrian infrastructure as essential to the health of New Yorkers. It’s a solid counterweight to the hysteria surrounding […]

Fact: Places With High Numbers of Cyclists Are Safer for Pedestrians

By Ben Fried | Sep 21, 2011 | 19 Comments

I’ve got a question for the purported defenders of pedestrian safety who sit on the editorial boards at the Daily News and the Post. I know they haven’t shown much interest in preventing the 10,000+ injuries and 150+ fatalities that motorists inflict on pedestrians in New York City each year, but the new Hunter College […]

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