Recent Streetsblog USA posts about Bike/Ped

Report from Atlanta: Don’t Walk This Way

By Sarah Goodyear | Mar 9, 2007 | 23 Comments

I can’t get behind Prevention Magazine’s ranking of New York as 39th among the nation’s most walkable cities. But after spending three days in Atlanta for a conference recently, I have no problem understanding why it rates 86th. Stuck, like most of the city’s legions of conventioneers, in the area around the Peachtree Center, I […]

StreetFilms: “Something Has to Be Done”

By Sarah Goodyear | Mar 6, 2007 | No Comments

Emergency Pedestrian Safety RallyRunning time: 4 minutes 38 seconds Here are some highlights from Sunday’s rally for pedestrian safety. In the words of Audrey Anderson, whose 14-year-old son, Andre, was killed by an SUV while he was riding his bike: "Drivers who kill and are not apparently drunk walk away from crash sites as free […]

Old Gray Lady Gets on the Bandwagon

By Sarah Goodyear | Mar 5, 2007 | 5 Comments

The New York Times came out advocating for progressive transportation policies in its Sunday City section editorial, saying that the departure of DOT Commissioner Iris Weinshall presents "a great opportunity to take bold action on a vexing quality of life and health issue: traffic congestion." After giving Weinshall props for her actions on the Queens […]

PBS to America: Fight Global Warming, Drive an SUV

By Aaron Donovan | Feb 16, 2007 | 11 Comments

In 2005, PBS came out with a widely promoted documentary narrated by Alanis Morissette called "Global Warming: The Signs and the Science." For people interested in learning more about the topic of global warming and climate change, this DVD is widely available. Being produced and distributed by a well known and highly respected organization, serves […]

Four-Year-Old Killed by Hummer Shouldn’t Have Died in Vain

By Sarah Goodyear | Feb 14, 2007 | 32 Comments

The death of four-year-old James Jacaricce Rice at the intersection of Third Avenue and Baltic Street in Brooklyn yesterday didn’t make a huge splash in the news. But it should have. What were James and his 18-year-old aunt, Ta-Nayin St. John, doing when they were mowed down by a three-ton yellow Hummer making a turn? […]

Pedaling Protest Takes on Car Show

By Jason Varone | Feb 12, 2007 | 6 Comments

The Chicago Tribune reports: Dressed as polar bears and Santa Claus and towing signs that read "True Patriots Don’t Burn Oil" and "Be a Hero: Drive Less," a group of bicyclists gathered Saturday in front of McCormick Place to protest the Chicago Auto Show. "We feel there are enough cars in Chicago," said Dan […]

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