Recent Streetsblog SF posts about Car Culture

Bye-Bye General Motors, Hello (Again) General Locomotives?

By Matthew Roth | Jun 1, 2009 | 4 Comments

The V-8 P.J. O’Rourke put a bullet in this morning after writing his Op-Ed in the Wall Street Journal. This morning much of the nation’s news outlets are devoted to the demise of General Motors, which represents the fourth largest bankruptcy in U.S. history and the largest of any industrial titan. Perhaps most entertaining of […]

Streetfilms: Meet Veronica Moss, A.U.T.O. Lobbyist

By Clarence Eckerson Jr. | May 27, 2009 | No Comments

Ever wonder what folks working for sustainable transportation at the federal level are up against on K Street? For this Streetfilms exclusive, we were granted unfettered access to Veronica Moss, lobbyist for the Automobile Users Trade Organization (AUTO). Veronica gave us a few precious moments inside her SUV to talk about roads, traffic, cyclists, and […]

Only 17 Percent Drive to Downtown SF to Shop, Study Finds

By Matthew Roth | May 27, 2009 | 12 Comments

There’s gold in them thar shoes. Flickr photo: Billy Quach The San Francisco County Transportation Authority (TA) has released a survey of nearly 1400 shoppers in downtown San Francisco that found less than one-fifth drive to shop, and that they spend less money in aggregate than shoppers using other transportation modes (PDF). The study indicates […]

Mission Sunday Streets Expected to Draw Largest Crowds Yet

By Matthew Roth | May 20, 2009 | 9 Comments

Flickr Photo: nocturalperambulations When tens of thousands of people come out to the first of two Sunday Streets in the Mission on June 7th, they will find a route that winds through some of the densest pedestrian streets in San Francisco, a route that at just over two miles is half as long as previous […]

For a City of Panhandles! Copenhagenize it!

By Chris Carlsson | May 19, 2009 | 14 Comments

Mona Caron’s rendition of 24th and Folsom after we’ve made a few basic changes. (Thanks to Mona Caron for this image, originally published in the Bay Guardian in 2006.) We’ve been waiting for years now to see some physical changes to accommodate the huge increase in daily bicycling. We did get an odd set of […]

Where’s Gavin? Likely Campaigning in an Armored SUV

By Matthew Roth | May 15, 2009 | 4 Comments

Mayor Newsom’s ride of choice, via josmith94701 on Flickr Apparently I’m not the only one who got the sneaky suspicion Green Gav doesn’t really take transit or ride a bike unless it makes for good publicity. Yet-to-be identified satirists decided to call Mayor Gavin Newsom’s bluff on the nonsense assertion he (or his handlers) made […]

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