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May 2008

5/08: Mixed Messages From Critic of NY Gas Tax Holiday 8
5/06: Cartoon Tuesday: "Holiday" 7
5/01: U.S. DOT Launches Official, Horribly-Named "Blog" 10
5/01: Obama Dismisses Gas Tax "Gimmick" 23

April 2008

4/30: Cartoon Tuesday (Wednesday Edition): This American Lifestyle 3
4/30: Chuck Schumer and Hillary Clinton: Where Is the Leadership? 11
4/29: Americans Turn to Prayer at the Pump 21
4/23: "Crisis" Mode AAA Urges Panicked Drivers to Take Transit 36
4/21: Progressive to Offer "Pay As You Drive" Insurance 31
4/16: Ad Nauseam: The Humiliated Cyclist, Take Two 18
4/04: State Farm Looks to Engage Cycling Community 34
4/03: Ad Nauseam: State Farm on the Humiliation of Biking to Work 50

March 2008

3/24: Rev. Billy Preaches Bikes & Transit at the NYC Auto Show 5
3/20: America to the Automobile: "It's Over" 19
3/14: The Onion: Feds Unveil $270 Billion Program for Bad Drivers 4
3/03: Young Japanese Just Say No to Cars 3

February 2008

2/27: The Definition of Automobile Dependence 8
2/26: Driver-Nannies Keep Kids and Parents Safe From Transit 33
2/13: "My Other Car Is a Bright Green City" 6
2/11: Supermodels Demand an Auto-Free New York 21

January 2008

1/30: Would Dems' Pledge for "Change" Bring Transportation Reform? 20
1/29: No Clear Transpo Agenda From GOP Presidential Candidates 8
1/24: First "Smart" Car Arrives in New York 19
1/23: On the Front Lines With "Parking Wars" 10
1/15: The Battle for Britain's Roads 9
1/14: Nano Technology 10
1/09: Lincoln: The Powerful Don't Take Transit 12
1/07: When It Comes to Auto Supremacy, No Island Is an Island 12

December 2007

12/20: Disney's Highway to Hell 26
12/17: Hats and Top Coats: Unsung Casualties of Car Culture 23
12/12: Driving: Teenage America's Deadliest Preventable Epidemic 19
12/04: Toronto Cops Pull Over a Pedal-Powered '86 Buick 10

November 2007

11/30: Its Showtime for the DOT Parking Team 32
11/29: NYC's "Flawed" Traffic Plan Brought to You by... Toyota 10
11/28: $115 $230 Summons for NASCAR Driver #19 Elliott Sadler 12
11/28: NYC.gov Holiday Traffic Plan Makes Way for NASCAR 3
11/27: The Trafficist: An Interview With Randy Cohen 12
11/20: SUVs Are Not Cool, Unless They're "Hybrid Hybrids" 47
11/19: Alan Durning's "Year of Living Carlessly" and "Bicycle Neglect" 2

October 2007

10/31: Queens Civic Congress Has Its Own Plan 3
10/31: The Horror 5
10/30: Philly CarShare Helps City Government Reduce Its Fleet 5
10/15: Robin Chase: "The Web 2.0 of Transportation Technologies" 21
10/08: "En-Suite" Parking, for the Discerning Antisocial Urbanite 15
10/03: Doubts About DOT Congestion Prescription in Jax Heights 1
10/01: Two Traffic Fatalities: One a Homicide, the Other an "Accident" 34
10/01: "Vision Zero": Not One More Traffic Death 7

September 2007

9/24: StreetFilms: Park(ing) Day 2007 8
9/20: Delucchi Study Finds That U.S. Motorists Do Not Pay Their Way 23
9/19: The Black Car Project: Filling the Autovoid 9
9/19: New York: A "Drivers' Paradise" 35
9/19: Americans Growing Too Large for Their Cars 8
9/11: Parallel Parking for Sociopaths 10
9/10: The 50 Worst Cars of All Time 1
9/06: Biking the Mean Streets of L.A. 10
9/05: Dude, Where's My Bike Lane? 8
9/05: Japanese Automakers Settle Pollution Suit 0
9/04: Safety City: Where Cars Rule! 15
9/04: Infinite Jest 4

August 2007

8/28: Queens Leaders Fight Safety Fixes for Fatal School Crossing 25
8/20: Cyclists Throwing Selves Under Cars in Brooklyn 28
8/20: The Urban Transportation Report Card 7
8/17: New Blog Expounds Joy, and Practicality, of Walking 10
8/14: Video Shows Dangers of Upper East Side Bike Plan 50
8/13: More on Rep. Patrick McHenry 3
8/09: Congressman Ridicules Bikes as "19th Century Solution" 75
8/08: When a Car Does the Killing, It's Always an "Accident." 11
8/07: What if Terrorists Killed as Many as Die in U.S. Car Crashes? 8
8/03: Saturday Evening in Jackson Heights, Queens: Feel the Pain 44
8/02: Tonight: Park(ing) Day Planning Meeting 0

July 2007

7/26: Count SUVs for the Brian Lehrer Show Today 2
7/25: Welcome to Davis, California: A Bicycle Friendly Town 3
7/25: Americans Vote for Fuel Efficiency. Why Do They Buy Guzzlers? 18
7/23: Safety First? True Once, but U.S. Now Lags in Road Deaths 13
7/20: Kids Demand Respect in the Streets of Brooklyn 5
7/20: The World's First Sustainable Parking Structure 8
7/19: CB8 Shoots Down Upper East Side Crosstown Bike Route Plan 38
7/12: An NYC First: On-Street Parking Spaces Replaced by Bike Racks 26
7/10: Brooklyn Merchants Fight for Parking Over Affordable Housing 1
7/06: Mayor Speaks at Times Square Pricing Rally 4
7/05: A Rising Bicycle Tide in Mexico City 4
7/05: Slow Going for New Bus Lanes 11
7/05: No Exit, Upper West Side Style 12
7/03: General Motors Goes Hollywood 9
7/03: One's Inner SUV Driver 24
7/02: Take Back the Streets, for the Kids 1

June 2007

6/29: No Love for One-Way Proposal in Jackson Heights 7
6/27: Carpetbagging Drivers Head to North Carolina for Plates 19
6/25: Auto Insurer Creates Traffic Mayhem With Gasoline Give-Away 3
6/25: Book Review: Twenty-Three Years to Save the Planet 8
6/21: StreetFilms: A London Driver Discusses Congestion Pricing 2
6/21: Gov't Employee Parking at the High Bridge Rec Center 3
6/21: "Modal Prejudice" on Brian Lehrer Today at 11:20 am 18
6/19: File Under: Only in America 1
6/19: The Perfect Argument for Congestion Pricing 15
6/18: An Old Car Interred 19
6/14: City Transit Commuters: A Modest Assessment 17
6/12: New Bike Lanes Won't Leave Room for Escalade Double-Parking! 0
6/12: Rising Gas Prices Hurt Truck Sales 0
6/11: Call for Ped Safety Measures on Third and Fourth Avenues 1
6/06: Ciclovia: Is NYC Ready? 15
6/06: CB4 Votes Tonight on a Revised Hell's Kitchen 4
6/05: Eyes on the Street: Seen Better Days 3

May 2007

5/31: Weird Science: Do Helmets Attract Cars to Cyclists? 16
5/30: StreetFilms: Turning Streets Into Community Spaces 11
5/30: LA.Streetsblog: The Joy of Poor Circulation 6
5/30: Motor Vehicles Leading Cause of NYC Child Injury Deaths 0
5/30: The 'Burbs: Extremely Safe or Especially Dangerous? 12
5/24: Blind Spots in SUVs Still Killing Kids 0
5/22: Gas Costs More? Fill ’Er Up! 6
5/17: The Car Habit Is Tough to Break 20
5/11: Double-Parking in a Bike Lane? There Isn't Even a Check Box. 4
5/11: Swerve and Protect: Boston's Bicycle Bible 12
5/09: Biofuels, Bus Lanes and Beer 7
5/08: Ninth Street Update: Robert's Rules of Order 24
5/07: Sadik-Khan and Congestion Pricing: Ready for Prime Time 30
5/04: Building a Better Bike Lane 30
5/03: Cancer: Brought to You by the Internets 3
5/02: This is How State Senator Eric Adams Celebrates Bike Month? 29
5/01: New York Magazine Casts a Cynical Eye on "Bloomtopia" 23

April 2007

4/30: Where There's a Will, There's a Subway 4
4/30: Meet the Cloggers 0
4/30: Highway Collapse Causes Transit Expansion 4
4/27: Can Technology Make Public Transit More Alluring? 5
4/27: Tell Marty Markowitz You Support DOT's 9th Street Plan 6
4/26: Ken Livingstone on Congestion Pricing in New York 7
4/26: Black Clouds Over China 0
4/25: Media (Mostly) Give PlaNYC Its Due 8
4/24: What $13 Billion Looks Like 7
4/23: Council Overrides Pedicab Veto 17
4/23: Will City Council Override Mayor's Pedicab-Bill Veto? 2
4/23: How Green Is Our Mayor 44
4/21: StreetFilm: Talking Transportation with Bob Kiley 0
4/19: Fort Greene Gets Action from Spitzer on Placards 0
4/18: Detractors Find Congestion Pricing Facts in Short Supply 20
4/18: SoHo Car Owners Mobilizing to Save Parking, Fight Bike Lanes 19
4/17: Pedi Politics 6
4/16: The Parking Dysfunction Meter: Fines Are Five Times Revenue 16
4/16: Overheard on the Bus: NYC Bicyclists Losing the PR War 26
4/12: Quinn's Pedicab Problem: Personal or Political? 9
4/12: City's Parking Expansion Sustains Nothing but Motoring 7
4/12: CB2 Committee Approves "Additional" Prince/Bleecker Routes 3
4/11: We Must Imagine a Future Without Cars 7
4/06: Park Slope Passes on Traffic-Calming, Ped Safety & Bike Lanes 24
4/06: Resolved: More Traffic Congestion & Automobile Dependence 7
4/05: Hey, Wanna Buy a Minicar? 12
4/04: Auto Worship Still a Sign of the Times 14
4/03: When a Two-Car Garage Just Isn't Enough 11
4/02: StreetFilm: Room to Breathe 6
4/02: Pedestrian Safety: The National Picture 2
4/02: Congestion Relief: It's About Your Health 1

March 2007

3/30: Why Can't I Go the Wrong Way on a One Way Street? 0
3/30: Zipcar, Meet Zipbike 13
3/30: Do Ya Think I'm Sexy? 1
3/28: Ungrateful Liberal Scum, "We Do Not Summons Our Own." 35
3/28: Ad Nauseam: Tiki Barber and His Cadillac Escalade 4
3/26: Going Nowhere Fast 22
3/20: StreetFilms: Interview with Parking Guru Donald Shoup 0
3/20: Mayor Bloomberg at the Crossroads: Who Will Run DOT? 13
3/19: Things Heating Up Over at UncivilServants.org 14
3/14: Defending "The Bailey's" Right to Kung Pao Chicken and an SUV 9
3/13: Parking Permit Abusers Being Cleared from Chinatown? 3
3/12: Parking: If You Build it They Will Come... in Their Cars. 10
3/09: Report from Atlanta: Don't Walk This Way 23
3/08: "People Act as Though the Hybrid Could Solve All Our Problems" 4
3/08: Feds Withhold Fatal-Accident Info from Public 5
3/07: The Greening of the Times 0
3/06: Pay Here to Park for Free 8
3/05: Why Is DOT Reorganizing Park Slope Traffic? Because. 7
3/05: Commissioner Weinshall Agrees: Two-Way Streets Calm Traffic 0
3/05: Old Gray Lady Gets on the Bandwagon 5

February 2007

2/26: NYC on Alert for Motor Vehicle-Based "Noise Terrorism" 4
2/26: European Automakers Are Feeling the Heat 1
2/20: Road Warrior: Los Angeles Edition 10
2/20: PlanNYC 2030: What makes a Community Sustainable? 4
2/16: PBS to America: Fight Global Warming, Drive an SUV 11
2/15: Living Near Shops and Transit Makes New Yorkers Less Fat 12
2/14: Four-Year-Old Killed by Hummer Shouldn't Have Died in Vain 32
2/13: Sustainable Transportation for NYC: How to Make it Happen 2
2/12: Pedaling Protest Takes on Car Show 6
2/12: The Seed of a Revolution in Red Hook 6
2/12: A Guilty Motorist Turns Himself In 0
2/09: Robert Moses's Fundamental Misunderstanding 28
2/08: DOT: "Our Job is to Keep Traffic Moving, Not Pedestrian Safety" 12
2/07: Disgruntled Drivers Responsible for UK Letter Bombs? 13
2/05: The Price of Parking: Let the Free Market Decide? 63
2/02: StreetFilms: An Interview with Sam Schwartz 0

January 2007

1/30: Study: Kids Who Live Near Freeways Have Trouble Breathing 9
1/24: Don't Ask Me About My Hummer 1
1/18: The State of the City 3
1/15: Celerant CEO Ian Goldman Celebrated in the Wall Street Journal 19
1/09: Wheels: The New York Times' New Auto Blog 11
1/05: Where the Sidewalk Ends: Dubai 11

December 2006

12/22: New German Community Models Car-Free Living 2
12/21: Confronting Our Problems 112
12/20: Donut Emergency: Cop Parked in Crosswalk and Bike Lane 18
12/18: Holiday Book Recommendations Open Thread 15
12/14: Are Old-Line Environmentalists Asleep at the Wheel? 46
12/12: Parochial Thinking Amid Ominous Signs 1
12/11: Beijing Bike Bully Forced to Apologize on TV 3
12/05: Traffic Congestion: Sponsored by Your Local Media 7

November 2006

11/29: Hydrogen: Not as Green as it Seems 5
11/29: NASCAR Parade Rolls Through Midtown This Morning 7
11/29: SUV Attack Update 2 10
11/28: SUV Attack Update 8
11/22: This Morning's Commute: The Ian Goldman Affair 55
11/21: Eyes on the Street: Occupied Territory 15
11/16: Ad Nauseam: Ford Mustang Shelby GT 500 27
11/09: Traffic: A Social Problem Not a Design Problem 17
11/08: Borderline Behavior 4
11/08: Connecting Urban Design and Public Health 0
11/07: Scrimp My Ride 3
11/03: Ad Nauseam: General Motors' Flying Cars 27
11/02: Eat More Carbohydrates, Burn More Hydrocarbons 1

October 2006

10/17: The Cost of Sprawl on Low-Income Families 8

September 2006

9/21: Parking it in Midtown 21
9/20: State of California Sues Carmakers on Climate Change 4

August 2006

8/15: Big Car, Small... Ego. 0
8/11: Guess-the-Suburb Winner Is: Matt 5
8/11: A Hummer With Your Happy Meal 2
8/09: Can You Name the Town? 18

July 2006

7/19: A Traffic-Free Future for Harlem 8
7/16: Vehicle City 0
7/14: See You at the Beach 2
7/13: That's Dictatorship for You 0
7/12: Motoring News Roundup, July 12, 2006 0
7/01: Gone Fishin' 0

June 2006

6/26: Please, Derek. 1