Recent Streetsblog SF posts about Car Culture

Kalashnikovs for Clunkers: The Next Stimulus Plan

By Matthew Roth | Jul 28, 2009 | 4 Comments

In case you don’t qualify for the federal Cash-for-Clunkers rebate program, Mark Muller of Max Motors in Butler, Missouri, has an offer you might want to consider: get a free AK-47 with a new truck. The dealer, whose motto is "God, Guns, Guts and American Pick-Up Trucks," one-upped himself from last year’s offer of pistols […]

Know Your Road Lobbyists: The American Highway Users Alliance

By Elana Schor | Jul 20, 2009 | 1 Comment

For a 77-year-old nonprofit group with substantial Washington clout, the American Highway Users Alliance keeps a pretty low profile. Its members are not listed on its website, but interested parties are asked a few questions: "Are you outraged by the deaths of 120 people each day on our roads? Are you pro-environment AND pro-highway?" Average […]

Frightening 65 MPH Police Chase in the City Leaves a Bicyclist Hurt

By Bryan Goebel | Jul 17, 2009 | 12 Comments

An unmarked unit and officers chase a suspect up Frank Norris, off Polk Street between Bush and Pine. Photos by Bryan Goebel. A high-speed police chase of a stolen black SUV began in Tiburon and ended on Polk Street in San Francisco this afternoon, a frightening scene that sent pedestrians running and bicyclists scurrying to […]

Woman Hits Caltrans Worker, Claims He Didn’t Jump Fast Enough

By Matthew Roth | Jul 8, 2009 | 5 Comments

This just in from the "you’ve got to be sh*tting me" files: an Oregon woman, Catherine Stotts, 62, who was driving illegally in the construction lane of Route 20 in Mendocino County Tuesday afternoon, hit a Caltrans worker and then had the nerve to suggest he should have jumped out of the way faster to […]

Enrique Peñalosa Urges SF to Embrace Pedestrians and Public Space

By Matthew Roth | Jul 8, 2009 | 14 Comments

Photo: Matthew Roth Celebrated Colombian urbanist and former mayor of Bogotá Enrique Peñalosa told a standing room audience of more than one hundred people at the San Francisco Public Library last night that San Francisco can be friendly to cars or to people, but not both. Further, he argued that there is no fundamental technical […]

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