Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Car Dependence

Infrastructure Deal ‘Worst Ratio for Transit Funding Since Nixon’

By Kea Wilson | Jul 30, 2021 | No Comments

Washington is one step closer to passing an infrastructure package that would provide historic funding for transit, and then immediately undercut it with historic funding for drivers.

Holland Tunnel traffic inbound from New Jersey. Photo: Wikimedia Commons

OPINION: The Port Authority’s Car Dependence Is Killing Our Climate-Change Goals

By Bob Previdi | Jul 29, 2021 | No Comments

If the New York metro area is to decarbonize, the bi-state agency should lead the effort. But can it wean itself off tolls and parking fees?

A Round and a Roundy: Open-Street Opponents Pounce on Play Space

By Streetsblog | Jul 20, 2021 | No Comments

When it comes to open streets and what they mean for kids, our national-treasure 'bartoonist' always nails it.

A car from the now sadly defunct Car2Go, which sold point-to-point car-share by the minute. An expansion of car share could reduce the number of vehicles on our streets. Photo: Elliott Brown/Flick

OPINION: To Ban Cars, Socialize Them

By Nicole A. Murray | Jul 20, 2021 | No Comments

The city could repurpose its huge fleet into a car-share one, starting with the NYPD's huge cache of vehicles.

Car bores: Craig Carton and Evan Roberts

Wednesday’s Headlines: The Awful Entitlement of the Car Driver Edition

By Streetsblog | May 26, 2021 | No Comments

Aw, pity poor suburbanite Evan Roberts. Plus all the other news.

UWS Council Member zooming while zooming. Photo: New York City Council

Upper West Side Pol Caught Zooming While Zooming

By Julianne Cuba | May 25, 2021 | No Comments

"Naming streets for our dead children and seniors, people who were killed precisely because of distracted driving, is not what makes a leader," says one activist.

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