Your Car Will Not Save the Planet
Today on the Streetsblog Network, member blog Riding in Riverside sets out to explode the myth of the "wundercar" -- a vehicle powered by sustainable fuels that will allow us to hold onto our driving lifestyle and all its accoutrements, while saving the planet and feeling "green."
January 14, 2010
Choosing to Live Where You Can Walk — or Ski — to Work
Today on the Streetsblog Network, we have a post from Andrew Faulkner, who writes a blog called The Exquisite Struggle
in St. Louis. Faulkner writes about how for many people his age (he's
25), living in a walkable neighborhood is a high priority. He has set
his life up so that a car is just one of several options he has for
getting around.
January 13, 2010
Back Home in Coeur d’Alene, Where the Cars Roam Free
Pretty much everyone involved in the movement for livable streets has by now read the reports and studies about the importance of street design in pedestrian safety. But nothing can bring the point home like what happened to the writer of the Streetsblog Network blog Imagine No Cars: He was hit by a car.
January 12, 2010
Is New St. Louis Rail Station an Eyesore?
Steve Patterson, the writer of Streetsblog Network member blog UrbanReviewSTL, has long been a fan of anti-sprawl guru James Howard Kunstler.
But Patterson takes issue with Kunstler in a post today about the new
St. Louis Amtrak station, a multimodal facility that also serves as a
bus depot and light rail link. Kunstler just named it as his "eyesore
of the month."
January 11, 2010
A Cyclist by Any Other Name
If you are a person who rides a bicycle, how do you refer to yourself? As a cyclist? A biker? A bicyclist? Or simply as…a person? Who rides a bicycle? As riding a bicycle for transportation has become more common around the country, the question comes up more and more often. The word “cyclist,” in … Continued
January 8, 2010
Bono, Get a Grip — Stop Fetishizing Cars
We heard from a few people over the holiday break who were disgusted by the Jan. 2 New York Times op-ed
from U2 front man -- and celebrity environmentalist -- Bono. In it, the
pop star called for the "return of the automobile as a sexual object."
January 7, 2010
Isn’t Self-Sufficiency a Conservative Thing?
Anyone who's ever maintained a blog knows how easily it can burn you
out. So we'd like to give a special welcome back to one of our Streetsblog Network members, WalkBikeCT, which has returned to the keyboard with a renewed sense of purpose after a few months of hiatus.
January 6, 2010
Sprawl Is Not an Endangered Species
Today on the Streetsblog Network, member blog Sprawled Out takes on haters of New Urbanism -- specifically, Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel columnist Patrick McIlheran, who wrote a piece lauding a designer of subdivisions named Rick Harrison.
January 5, 2010
Stadium Deals Drain Cities
We'll kick off 2010 with a post from Streetsblog Network member Hub and Spokes about the perils of subsidizing stadiums in the hope of getting a big economic return:
January 4, 2010
What Big Snow Can Tell Us (Ok, Maybe not US) About Our Streets
So the snow that hit the Northeast over the weekend is gradually sublimating and melting away, and a couple of the blogs on the Streetsblog Network
are looking at the difference in the way municipalities treated
pedestrians and motorists during and after the first big storm of the
winter.
December 22, 2009