To E-Bike or Not to E-Bike
You're
seeing electric-powered bicycles more and more on the streets of New
York these days, so far mostly ridden by restaurant deliverymen. But
are they just early adopters of what will become a more widespread
trend?
June 3, 2010
Younger People Driving Less, Auto Industry Getting Nervous
An article published on May 31 in Ad Age about the decline in driving among young Americans has caught the eye of many Streetsblog Network members. The piece -- which frames this as a big problem for the automobile industry -- posits that the younger generation increasingly sees a wired lifestyle as incompatible with a motorized one:
June 2, 2010
What Do Sushi and Bicycles Have in Common?
How is a bicycle like a fish? Specifically, a piece of raw fish on sticky rice wrapped in seaweed?
June 1, 2010
Walking Away From Oil Dependence, One Day at a Time
Today, even the CEO of BP used the words "environmental catastrophe" to characterize what's happening in the Gulf of Mexico.
May 28, 2010
Why Drag Two Tons of Car With You Wherever You Go?
How much energy does it take to move two tons?
May 24, 2010
New Urbanist Silverback Andres Duany and the Young Locusts
If you've been roaming the urbanist blogosphere this week, you may have happened upon the comments made by one of the progenitors of New Urbanism, Andres Duany, in an interview with the Atlantic. Duany, apparently, has a problem with young people coming into a city and using it in a way that he disapproves of:
May 21, 2010
The Active Transportation Scene in Sioux Falls
One of the beauties of the Streetsblog Network (now with 411 members) is that it gives us a pavement-level view of what's happening in communities that are mostly glossed over by both mainstream media and what might be termed the mainstream blogosphere. Places like Sioux Falls, South Dakota.
May 20, 2010
Seeking the Next Interstate System, This Time Without Asphalt
The construction of the interstate highway system defined the landscape of late-20th-century America. What will be the transformative infrastructure of the 21st century?
May 19, 2010
Consequences for Banana-Throwers, and the Case for Human Decency
Today from Texas, the story of some teenagers who thought it would be fun to throw stuff at people riding bicycles -- and of some police officers who thought what they did was serious enough to track them down and stop them.
May 18, 2010
The Potential for Private Investment in Transit
Could private developers be the key to developing the nation's transit infrastructure?
May 17, 2010