Recent Streetsblog SF posts about Car Culture

The Rise of the Longtail Bicycle

By Matthew Roth | Mar 10, 2009 | 4 Comments

Xtracycle founder Ross Evans is only tangentially running a business in Oakland. Inventor, entrepreneur, bicycle tinkerer, activist, and international transportation development consultant, Evans has a mission to transform mobility around the world with his longtail bicycle design, all the while creating communities and culture that are less reliant on the car. And what’s more refreshing, […]

Campaign Enlists Comedians to Curb Reckless Teen Driving

By Brad Aaron | Mar 6, 2009 | No Comments

The Ad Council has some new material in its campaign aimed at teenage drivers. In these spots, a comedic actor (Fred Willard in the ad above) in the backseat of a car with three teens cajoles or threatens the driver into slowing down or minding the road. The gist of the campaign, corresponding with the […]

UK Campaign Drives Home the Cost of Reckless Driving

By Brad Aaron | Feb 17, 2009 | No Comments

Warning: Graphic video On the heels of New York’s Transportation Alternatives report on the human toll of driving too fast, we bring you this highly disturbing ad from the UK Department for Transport’s THINK! campaign, showing the difference a few miles-per-hour can make when it comes to avoiding a collision. Ideally material like this (Australia […]

Good Roads?

By Chris Carlsson | Feb 12, 2009 | 1 Comment

I just finished an interesting journey that took me to the World Social Forum at the mouth of the Amazon River system in Belem, Brazil, and then to Los Angeles and finally home, just in time to attend a presentation last night at CounterPULSE of Rick Prelinger’s Lost Landscapes III. The show consists of rare […]

Paradise LOSt (Part III): California’s Revolutionary Plan to Overhaul Transportation Analysis

By Matthew Roth | Jan 28, 2009 | 3 Comments

Transportation consultants and planners associated with the San Francisco Transportation Authority’s (TA) ATG working group sent excited bursts of email to each other earlier this month about a new development coming from the state Office of Planning and Research (OPR), the body responsible for writing and amending the CEQA guidelines related to transportation and traffic. […]

Paradise LOSt (Part II): Turning Automobility on Its Head

By Matthew Roth | Jan 27, 2009 | 3 Comments

One of the unintended consequences of San Francisco’s bicycle injunction, which Rob Anderson and fellow NIMBYs will likely rue for some time to come, is the arduous thought and labor that advocates and professional planners have invested in doing away with LOS all together. Two arguments in the debate over LOS have emerged. One […]

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