Holiday Headlines
Here are some links to keep all of you hardcore Livable Streets junkies from suffering withdrawal symptoms during the holiday publishing hiatus. As always, feel free to talk amongst yourselves in the comments section...
2:26 PM EST on December 27, 2006
Here are some links to keep all of you hardcore Livable Streets junkies from suffering withdrawal symptoms during the holiday publishing hiatus. As always, feel free to talk amongst yourselves in the comments section…
A picture of Seoul, Korea from Forbes Magazine’s most congested cities.
- NYC’s Looking Good: The World’s Most Congested Cities (Forbes)
- NPR Finds the Greening of Paris is “Rough on Motorists”
- West Side Residents Angry Over Bike Lane Parking Tix (NYT)
- Beijing Trying to Make Transit “Fashionable” Before Olympics (Reuters)
- Expensive FDR Highway Detour May Become a Park (Gothamist)
- Lusting for Less Contested Streets (City Limits)
- How to Sell a Car in Today’s Brooklyn (Daily Intel)
- Merry Gridlock! (NLG)
Aaron Naparstek is the founder and former editor-in-chief of Streetsblog. Based in Brooklyn, New York, Naparstek's journalism, advocacy and community organizing work has been instrumental in growing the bicycle network, removing motor vehicles from parks, and developing new public plazas, car-free streets and life-saving traffic-calming measures across all five boroughs. He was also one of the original cast members of the "War on Cars" podcast. You can find more of his work on his website.
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