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October 2009
Tue 27: Will "Crash-Proof" Cars Make Drivers More Dangerous? 14
Mon 26: NYPD Amps Up Street Noise With the "Rumbler" 17
Thu 22: Daily News: Is There a Person in Your Parking Spot? Kill Them. 28
Mon 19: Daily News on Distracted Cab Drivers: What's the Big Deal? 6
Wed 14: Are We Smarter Than a Third Grader? On Livable Streets, Maybe Not. 2
Fri 9: Fun With Data: How Workers Commute 3
September 2009
Wed 30: The Assumption of Inconvenience 32
Wed 30: LaHood's Distracted Driving Summit: Follow It Live 1
Tue 15: Fighting for the Right to Bike to School 21
Wed 9: What Should We Learn From Moses and Jacobs? 13
August 2009
Thu 20: Jay Leno Plays Vehicular Manslaughter for Laughs 11
Mon 3: Zipcar Takes the Anti-Urban Route 30
July 2009
Fri 31: Tom Vanderbilt Dissects "The 'E' Word" 12
Tue 28: Kalashnikovs for Clunkers: The Next Stimulus Plan 9
Mon 6: Help Your Landlord, Win a Year Full of Expensive Hassles 10
June 2009
Mon 29: Fifth Avenue, 1909: So Long Promenade, Hello Motorway 14
Fri 19: Ad Nauseam: Antisocial Thuggery From Pioneer 15
Tue 2: Randal O'Toole: Taking Liberties With the Facts 48
May 2009
Wed 27: Streetfilms: Meet Veronica Moss, A.U.T.O. Lobbyist 15
Thu 21: What Happens to a Closed-Down Auto Plant? 12
Thu 21: Senator Takes Hybrid Hummer on a Semi-Wild Ride 4
Fri 15: Does Your Commute Suck? Tell Us About It. 1
Thu 14: The IndyKids Are Alright 0
Thu 7: Nate Silver: Is American Car Culture on the Skids? 5
Tue 5: What's Really Dangerous for Kids? Hint: It Has Four Wheels and a Tailpipe. 10
April 2009
Wed 8: "Do as We Say, Not as We Do" = No Model for Sustainability 23
March 2009
Fri 27: Dangerous Drivers Declare Themselves Above the Law 14
Fri 6: Campaign Enlists Comedians to Curb Reckless Teen Driving 2
February 2009
Mon 23: Simcha Felder Defends Parking Violators From Enforcement "Vultures" 14
Tue 17: UK Campaign Drives Home the Cost of Reckless Driving 8
November 2008
Wed 26: Horns, What Are They Good For? 20
Mon 24: Thompson: Car Commuters Should Pay Their Fair Share 11
Fri 21: Buy One Albatross, Get One Free! 14
Mon 17: GM's Ransom Note to America 29
Tue 11: Ad Nauseam: Spare the Toll, Save the Carmaker 5
Mon 10: Pelosi, Reid and Emanuel Push for Carmaker Bailout 27
October 2008
Thu 30: Texas Governor Rick Perry Celebrates 18 Lanes of "Freedom" 20
Mon 27: No Takers for Contest to Make Fun of Walking, Biking, Transit 13
Mon 27: Flouting Traffic Laws: The Gateway to Lying to Police 4
September 2008
Mon 29: Memo to MTV: "Pimp My Bike" = Ratings Gold 5
Wed 17: Culture War on Wheels 18
Tue 16: Cartoon Tuesday: On-Street Edition 1
August 2008
Fri 8: This Just In: The Media Business Is Auto-Dependent Too 18
July 2008
Tue 29: "Traffic" Author Tom Vanderbilt on Leonard Lopate Today at Noon 0
Thu 17: Can't We All Just Share the Road? 15
Fri 11: Times Shows Little Love for Livable Streets 19
Wed 9: DC Defends Livable Streets Improvements as WaPo Declares "War" 10
Wed 9: L.A. Doc Takes Out Road Rage on Cyclists, Injuring Two 41
Wed 9: New Mayor Could Weaken London Congestion Charge 4
Tue 8: Cartoon Tuesday: It's (Not) Funny Because It's True 3
June 2008
Tue 24: Cartoon Tuesday: Blind Spots 2
Fri 20: Ad Nauseam: Auto Zone, or Twilight Zone? 12
Fri 20: Georgia Governor Comes Around on Commuter Rail 17
Fri 13: Nets Look to Lure Fans With Free Gas 9
Tue 10: Why Aren't Urban Pols Talking About Transit? 7
Tue 10: America (Or 1,800 Miles of It) Through the Windshield 1
Fri 6: The Windshield Perspective, Same As It Ever Was 9
Thu 5: "My Next Vehicle Will Be a Bicycle" 16
Wed 4: Car Buyers Pick Their Poison: Free Gun or Free Gas 15
May 2008
Thu 29: Responding to Criticism, Sen. Adams to Hold Transpo Meeting 13
Wed 28: Joe Lieberman: Did Someone Say "High Gas Prices"? 23
Wed 28: State Senators: Let's Get More Cars on the Road 66
Tue 20: Chrysler: Let's Ruin America! 40
Fri 16: Open Season on Parking Spots, and Parking Agents 24
Wed 14: Electeds Go to the Mat for Cheap Gas 7
Tue 13: Bus Rapid Transit Under Fire in Delhi, India 10
Thu 8: Mixed Messages From Critic of NY Gas Tax Holiday 8
Tue 6: Cartoon Tuesday: "Holiday" 7
Thu 1: U.S. DOT Launches Official, Horribly-Named "Blog" 10
Thu 1: Obama Dismisses Gas Tax "Gimmick" 24
April 2008
Wed 30: Cartoon Tuesday (Wednesday Edition): This American Lifestyle 3
Wed 30: Chuck Schumer and Hillary Clinton: Where Is the Leadership? 11
Tue 29: Americans Turn to Prayer at the Pump 22
Wed 23: Cyclists Zip Down Clogged LA Freeways 14
Wed 23: "Crisis" Mode AAA Urges Panicked Drivers to Take Transit 36
Mon 21: Progressive to Offer "Pay As You Drive" Insurance 38
Wed 16: Ad Nauseam: The Humiliated Cyclist, Take Two 18
Fri 4: State Farm Looks to Engage Cycling Community 34
Thu 3: Ad Nauseam: State Farm on the Humiliation of Biking to Work 58
March 2008
Mon 24: Rev. Billy Preaches Bikes & Transit at the NYC Auto Show 5
Thu 20: America to the Automobile: "It's Over" 19
Fri 14: The Onion: Feds Unveil $270 Billion Program for Bad Drivers 4
Wed 12: DOT Details Prince Street "Open Sundays" Project 24
Thu 6: Is an NYPD Bike Crackdown Underway? 10
Tue 4: Council Members Want "Blatantly Unfair" Toll Credit Corrected 56
Mon 3: Young Japanese Just Say No to Cars 3
February 2008
Wed 27: The Definition of Automobile Dependence 8
Tue 26: Driver-Nannies Keep Kids and Parents Safe From Transit 33
Mon 25: Is Big Environment Ready to Say America Is Hooked on Cars? 13
Wed 13: "My Other Car Is a Bright Green City" 6
Mon 11: Supermodels Demand an Auto-Free New York 21
January 2008
Thu 31: Word on the Street: Pricing "Like Charging You to Breathe" 1
Wed 30: Would Dems' Pledge for "Change" Bring Transportation Reform? 20
Tue 29: No Clear Transpo Agenda From GOP Presidential Candidates 8
Thu 24: First "Smart" Car Arrives in New York 21
Thu 24: Motorists Dominate UES Parking Workshop 16
Wed 23: On the Front Lines With "Parking Wars" 10
Tue 22: Queens Parking Workshop Turns to Talk of Motorist "Rights" 61
Tue 15: The Battle for Britain's Roads 9
Mon 14: Nano Technology 10
Wed 9: Lincoln: The Powerful Don't Take Transit 12
Mon 7: When It Comes to Auto Supremacy, No Island Is an Island 12
December 2007
Thu 20: Disney's Highway to Hell 26
Mon 17: Hats and Top Coats: Unsung Casualties of Car Culture 23
Wed 12: Driving: Teenage America's Deadliest Preventable Epidemic 19
Fri 7: Inom Tullarna: The Ancient Roots of Congestion Pricing 18
Tue 4: Toronto Cops Pull Over a Pedal-Powered '86 Buick 10
November 2007
Fri 30: Its Showtime for the DOT Parking Team 33
Thu 29: NYC's "Flawed" Traffic Plan Brought to You by... Toyota 10
Wed 28: $115 $230 Summons for NASCAR Driver #19 Elliott Sadler 12
Wed 28: NYC.gov Holiday Traffic Plan Makes Way for NASCAR 3
Tue 27: The Trafficist: An Interview With Randy Cohen 12
Tue 20: SUVs Are Not Cool, Unless They're "Hybrid Hybrids" 48
Mon 19: Alan Durning's "Year of Living Carlessly" and "Bicycle Neglect" 2
October 2007
Wed 31: Queens Civic Congress Has Its Own Plan 3
Wed 31: The Horror 5
Tue 30: Philly CarShare Helps City Government Reduce Its Fleet 5
Mon 22: The Times Wants Your Traffic Ideas 4
Fri 19: Who Are Anti-Pricing Pols Really Looking Out For? 10
Mon 15: Robin Chase: "The Web 2.0 of Transportation Technologies" 21
Mon 8: "En-Suite" Parking, for the Discerning Antisocial Urbanite 16
Wed 3: Doubts About DOT Congestion Prescription in Jax Heights 1
Mon 1: Two Traffic Fatalities: One a Homicide, the Other an "Accident" 34
Mon 1: "Vision Zero": Not One More Traffic Death 7
September 2007
Mon 24: StreetFilms: Park(ing) Day 2007 8
Thu 20: Delucchi Study Finds That U.S. Motorists Do Not Pay Their Way 23
Wed 19: The Black Car Project: Filling the Autovoid 9
Wed 19: New York: A "Drivers' Paradise" 35
Wed 19: Americans Growing Too Large for Their Cars 8
Tue 11: Parallel Parking for Sociopaths 10
Mon 10: The 50 Worst Cars of All Time 1
Fri 7: Give Me Traffic Congestion or Give Me Death 12
Thu 6: Biking the Mean Streets of L.A. 10
Wed 5: Dude, Where's My Bike Lane? 8
Wed 5: Japanese Automakers Settle Pollution Suit 0
Tue 4: Safety City: Where Cars Rule! 15
Tue 4: Infinite Jest 4
August 2007
Tue 28: Queens Leaders Fight Safety Fixes for Fatal School Crossing 25
Mon 20: Cyclists Throwing Selves Under Cars in Brooklyn 28
Mon 20: The Urban Transportation Report Card 7
Fri 17: New Blog Expounds Joy, and Practicality, of Walking 10
Tue 14: Video Shows Dangers of Upper East Side Bike Plan 50
Mon 13: More on Rep. Patrick McHenry 3
Thu 9: Congressman Ridicules Bikes as "19th Century Solution" 79
Wed 8: When a Car Does the Killing, It's Always an "Accident." 11
Tue 7: What if Terrorists Killed as Many as Die in U.S. Car Crashes? 8
Thu 2: Tonight: Park(ing) Day Planning Meeting 0
July 2007
Thu 26: Count SUVs for the Brian Lehrer Show Today 2
Wed 25: Welcome to Davis, California: A Bicycle Friendly Town 3
Wed 25: Americans Vote for Fuel Efficiency. Why Do They Buy Guzzlers? 18
Mon 23: Safety First? True Once, but U.S. Now Lags in Road Deaths 13
Fri 20: Kids Demand Respect in the Streets of Brooklyn 5
Fri 20: The World's First Sustainable Parking Structure 8
Thu 19: CB8 Shoots Down Upper East Side Crosstown Bike Route Plan 38
Thu 12: An NYC First: On-Street Parking Spaces Replaced by Bike Racks 26
Tue 10: Brooklyn Merchants Fight for Parking Over Affordable Housing 1
Fri 6: Mayor Speaks at Times Square Pricing Rally 4
Fri 6: The Suburbanist Paradox 13
Thu 5: A Rising Bicycle Tide in Mexico City 4
Thu 5: Slow Going for New Bus Lanes 11
Thu 5: No Exit, Upper West Side Style 12
Tue 3: General Motors Goes Hollywood 9
Tue 3: One's Inner SUV Driver 24
Mon 2: Take Back the Streets, for the Kids 1
June 2007
Fri 29: No Love for One-Way Proposal in Jackson Heights 7
Thu 28: Just What India Needs: The $3,000 Car 2
Wed 27: Carpetbagging Drivers Head to North Carolina for Plates 19
Mon 25: Auto Insurer Creates Traffic Mayhem With Gasoline Give-Away 3
Mon 25: Book Review: Twenty-Three Years to Save the Planet 8
Thu 21: StreetFilms: A London Driver Discusses Congestion Pricing 2
Thu 21: Gov't Employee Parking at the High Bridge Rec Center 3
Thu 21: "Modal Bias" on Brian Lehrer Today at 11:20 am 18
Tue 19: How Americans Get to Work 5
Tue 19: File Under: Only in America 1
Tue 19: The Perfect Argument for Congestion Pricing 15
Mon 18: An Old Car Interred 19
Thu 14: City Transit Commuters: A Modest Assessment 17
Tue 12: New Bike Lanes Won't Leave Room for Escalade Double-Parking! 0
Tue 12: Rising Gas Prices Hurt Truck Sales 0
Mon 11: Call for Ped Safety Measures on Third and Fourth Avenues 1
Wed 6: Ciclovia: Is NYC Ready? 15
Wed 6: CB4 Votes Tonight on a Revised Hell's Kitchen 4
Tue 5: Eyes on the Street: Seen Better Days 3
May 2007
Thu 31: Weird Science: Do Helmets Attract Cars to Cyclists? 16
Wed 30: Streetfilms: Turning Streets Into Community Spaces 11
Wed 30: LA.Streetsblog: The Joy of Poor Circulation 6
Wed 30: Motor Vehicles Leading Cause of NYC Child Injury Deaths 0
Wed 30: The 'Burbs: Extremely Safe or Especially Dangerous? 12
Thu 24: Blind Spots in SUVs Still Killing Kids 0
Tue 22: Gas Costs More? Fill ’Er Up! 6
Thu 17: The Car Habit Is Tough to Break 20
Fri 11: Double-Parking in a Bike Lane? There Isn't Even a Check Box. 4
Fri 11: Smoggy China to Observe World Car Free Day 1
Fri 11: Swerve and Protect: Boston's Bicycle Bible 12
Wed 9: Biofuels, Bus Lanes and Beer 7
Tue 8: Ninth Street Update: Robert's Rules of Order 24
Mon 7: Sadik-Khan and Congestion Pricing: Ready for Prime Time 30
Fri 4: Building a Better Bike Lane 30
Thu 3: Cancer: Brought to You by the Internets 3
Wed 2: This is How State Senator Eric Adams Celebrates Bike Month? 29
Tue 1: New York Magazine Casts a Cynical Eye on "Bloomtopia" 23
April 2007
Mon 30: Where There's a Will, There's a Subway 4
Mon 30: Meet the Cloggers 0
Mon 30: Highway Collapse Causes Transit Expansion 4
Fri 27: Can Technology Make Public Transit More Alluring? 5
Fri 27: Tell Marty Markowitz You Support DOT's 9th Street Plan 6
Thu 26: Ken Livingstone on Congestion Pricing in New York 7
Thu 26: Black Clouds Over China 0
Wed 25: Media (Mostly) Give PlaNYC Its Due 8
Tue 24: What $13 Billion Looks Like 7
Mon 23: Council Overrides Pedicab Veto 17
Mon 23: Will City Council Override Mayor's Pedicab-Bill Veto? 2
Mon 23: How Green Is Our Mayor 44
Sat 21: StreetFilm: Talking Transportation with Bob Kiley 0
Thu 19: Fort Greene Gets Action from Spitzer on Placards 0
Wed 18: Detractors Find Congestion Pricing Facts in Short Supply 20
Wed 18: SoHo Car Owners Mobilizing to Save Parking, Fight Bike Lanes 19
Tue 17: Pedi Politics 6
Mon 16: The Parking Dysfunction Meter: Fines Are Five Times Revenue 16
Mon 16: Overheard on the Bus: NYC Bicyclists Losing the PR War 26
Thu 12: Quinn's Pedicab Problem: Personal or Political? 9
Thu 12: City's Parking Expansion Sustains Nothing but Motoring 7
Thu 12: CB2 Committee Approves "Additional" Prince/Bleecker Routes 3
Wed 11: We Must Imagine a Future Without Cars 7
Fri 6: Park Slope Passes on Traffic-Calming, Ped Safety & Bike Lanes 24
Fri 6: Resolved: More Traffic Congestion & Automobile Dependence 7
Thu 5: Hey, Wanna Buy a Minicar? 12
Wed 4: Auto Worship Still a Sign of the Times 14
Tue 3: When a Two-Car Garage Just Isn't Enough 11
Mon 2: StreetFilm: Room to Breathe 6
Mon 2: Pedestrian Safety: The National Picture 2
Mon 2: Congestion Relief: It's About Your Health 1
Sun 1: Breaking News: Frieden Tapped as DOT Commish 14
March 2007
Fri 30: Why Can't I Go the Wrong Way on a One Way Street? 0
Fri 30: Zipcar, Meet Zipbike 13
Fri 30: Do Ya Think I'm Sexy? 1
Wed 28: Ungrateful Liberal Scum, "We Do Not Summons Our Own." 35
Wed 28: Ad Nauseam: Tiki Barber and His Cadillac Escalade 4
Mon 26: Going Nowhere Fast 22
Tue 20: StreetFilms: Interview with Parking Guru Donald Shoup 0
Tue 20: Mayor Bloomberg at the Crossroads: Who Will Run DOT? 13
Mon 19: Things Heating Up Over at UncivilServants.org 14
Wed 14: Defending "The Bailey's" Right to Kung Pao Chicken and an SUV 9
Tue 13: Parking Permit Abusers Being Cleared from Chinatown? 3
Mon 12: Parking: If You Build it They Will Come... in Their Cars. 10
Fri 9: Report from Atlanta: Don't Walk This Way 23
Thu 8: "People Act as Though the Hybrid Could Solve All Our Problems" 4
Thu 8: Feds Withhold Fatal-Accident Info from Public 5
Wed 7: The Greening of the Times 0
Tue 6: Pay Here to Park for Free 8
Mon 5: Why Is DOT Reorganizing Park Slope Traffic? Because. 7
Mon 5: Commissioner Weinshall Agrees: Two-Way Streets Calm Traffic 0
Mon 5: Old Gray Lady Gets on the Bandwagon 5
February 2007
Mon 26: NYC on Alert for Motor Vehicle-Based "Noise Terrorism" 4
Mon 26: European Automakers Are Feeling the Heat 1
Tue 20: Road Warrior: Los Angeles Edition 10
Tue 20: PlanNYC 2030: What makes a Community Sustainable? 4
Fri 16: PBS to America: Fight Global Warming, Drive an SUV 11
Thu 15: Living Near Shops and Transit Makes New Yorkers Less Fat 12
Wed 14: Four-Year-Old Killed by Hummer Shouldn't Have Died in Vain 32
Tue 13: Sustainable Transportation for NYC: How to Make it Happen 2
Mon 12: Pedaling Protest Takes on Car Show 6
Mon 12: The Seed of a Revolution in Red Hook 6
Mon 12: A Guilty Motorist Turns Himself In 0
Fri 9: Robert Moses's Fundamental Misunderstanding 28
Thu 8: DOT: "Our Job is to Keep Traffic Moving, Not Pedestrian Safety" 12
Wed 7: Disgruntled Drivers Responsible for UK Letter Bombs? 13
Mon 5: The Price of Parking: Let the Free Market Decide? 63
Fri 2: Streetfilms: An Interview with Sam Schwartz 0
January 2007
Tue 30: Study: Kids Who Live Near Freeways Have Trouble Breathing 9
Wed 24: Don't Ask Me About My Hummer 1
Thu 18: The State of the City 3
Mon 15: Celerant CEO Ian Goldman Celebrated in the Wall Street Journal 19
Tue 9: Wheels: The New York Times' New Auto Blog 11
Fri 5: Where the Sidewalk Ends: Dubai 11
December 2006
Fri 22: New German Community Models Car-Free Living 2
Thu 21: Confronting Our Problems 112
Wed 20: Donut Emergency: Cop Parked in Crosswalk and Bike Lane 19
Mon 18: Holiday Book Recommendations Open Thread 15
Thu 14: Are Old-Line Environmentalists Asleep at the Wheel? 46
Tue 12: Parochial Thinking Amid Ominous Signs 1
Mon 11: Beijing Bike Bully Forced to Apologize on TV 3
Tue 5: Traffic Congestion: Sponsored by Your Local Media 7
November 2006
Thu 30: Safe Routes to Schools Study Complete 4
Wed 29: Hydrogen: Not as Green as it Seems 5
Wed 29: NASCAR Parade Rolls Through Midtown This Morning 7
Wed 29: SUV Attack Update 2 10
Tue 28: SUV Attack Update 8
Wed 22: This Morning's Commute: The Ian Goldman Affair 55
Tue 21: Eyes on the Street: Occupied Territory 15
Thu 16: Ad Nauseam: Ford Mustang Shelby GT 500 27
Tue 14: "Freak Accident" That Seems to be Happening Regularly 2
Thu 9: Traffic: A Social Problem Not a Design Problem 17
Wed 8: Borderline Behavior 4
Wed 8: Connecting Urban Design and Public Health 0
Tue 7: Scrimp My Ride 3
Fri 3: Ad Nauseam: General Motors' Flying Cars 27
Thu 2: Eat More Carbohydrates, Burn More Hydrocarbons 1
October 2006
Tue 17: The Cost of Sprawl on Low-Income Families 8
Mon 16: DOT's Missed Opportunity on the Manhattan Bridge 13
Sat 14: 'Unnecessary Driving' Banned in Buffalo 1
September 2006
Thu 21: Parking it in Midtown 21
Wed 20: State of California Sues Carmakers on Climate Change 4
Mon 18: Pirro: Why Not Make Reckless Driving into Your Issue? 4
Thu 14: Digging in: How Many Crashes Are Due to "Bicycle Factors?" 5
August 2006
Tue 15: Big Car, Small... Ego. 0
Fri 11: Guess-the-Suburb Winner Is: Matt 5
Fri 11: A Hummer With Your Happy Meal 2
Wed 9: Can You Name the Town? 18
July 2006
Thu 27: Inebriated Columnist Issues Fatwa Against Kamikaze Jerks 14
Wed 19: A Traffic-Free Future for Harlem 8
Sun 16: Vehicle City 0
Fri 14: See You at the Beach 2
Thu 13: That's Dictatorship for You 0
Wed 12: Motoring News Roundup, July 12, 2006 0
Sat 1: Gone Fishin' 0
June 2006
Thu 29: Car Ownership Cost Calculator 0
Mon 26: EcoPolis: Envisioning the City of the Future 0
Mon 26: Please, Derek. 1
Tue 13: Pedestrian-Only Fifth Avenue: Tonight, a Three Hour Test 0
May 2006
Thu 18: Or You Might Call it Attempted Homicide 8