Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about SUVs

One’s Inner SUV Driver

By Alex Marshall | Jul 3, 2007 | 25 Comments

This is the third essay from Alex Marshall, who has written extensively on transportation issues as a journalist and author. He is a senior fellow at the Regional Plan Association, where he edits the bi-weekly Spotlight on the Region newsletter. "All SUV drivers are assholes," I’ve frequently found myself thinking as I face the […]

Motor Vehicles Leading Cause of NYC Child Injury Deaths

By Sarah Goodyear | May 30, 2007 | 1 Comment

According to a new study out from the city’s Department of Health, children in New York are seven times less likely than children nationwide to die as car passengers. That’s the good news, likely the result of the fact that our kids spend a lot less time in cars than most American children. The bad […]

Blind Spots in SUVs Still Killing Kids

By Sarah Goodyear | May 24, 2007 | No Comments

Growing public awareness of the danger posed to children by the huge blind spots in SUVs has led to likely passage of what is known as the Kids and Cars act in this session of Congress. But it remains unclear whether the now-weakened bill will adequately address rear-visibility issues that have led to the deaths […]

Ad Nauseam: Tiki Barber and His Cadillac Escalade

By Sarah Goodyear | Mar 28, 2007 | 5 Comments

While reading the NY Times essay about the woman who drives back and forth across the Brooklyn Bridge the other day, I was reminded of the Tiki Barber ads for the Cadillac Escalade. The spot that premiered during the Super Bowl is a moody, impressionistic montage that shows the former New York Giants running back […]

Mayor Says Toronto Will be North America’s Greenest City

By Jason Varone | Mar 27, 2007 | 2 Comments

Toronto Mayor David Miller vowed last week to make Toronto "the leading environmental city in North America." The Toronto Star reports: Mayor David Miller is pledging to slash the city’s greenhouse gas emissions by 30 per cent by 2020 and a whopping 80 per cent by 2050. Miller and city council will unveil a plan […]

Congestion Pricing: Does New York Have the Will?

By Sarah Goodyear | Mar 21, 2007 | 18 Comments

Brad Aaron reports: Political will, holistic planning, centralized management. That’s what Malcolm Murray-Clark says it takes to implement an effective congestion pricing plan. He should know. The Director of Congestion Charging at Transport for London (TfL) oversees a program that is as ambitious as it is successful — a program that went from idea to […]

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