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Eyes on the Street: Snow Days
When there isn't snow on the ground where does all the black stuff go?
February 21, 2007
Living Near Shops and Transit Makes New Yorkers Less Fat
A new Columbia University study published in the American Journal of Health Promotion, yet again, links livable streets to improved public health. The study reports:
February 15, 2007
The Subway Should Be Free
George Haikalis of the Institute for Rational Urban Mobility, with microphone. Environmentalist Theodore W. Kheel, seated next to him, at far right, would reduce the subway fare to nothing.
February 9, 2007
Study: Kids Who Live Near Freeways Have Trouble Breathing
A new study to be published in the Feb. 17 issue of the Lancet makes a strong case for the link between proximity to vehicular traffic and poor lung function in children. An article on Medical News Today sums up the report, which is currently available online to Lancet subscribers.
January 30, 2007
Does Vehicular Chaos Push Families Out of NYC?
Streetsblog contributor Charles Komanoff had an excellent letter in the New York Times on Sunday in response to the article about Sara Robbins, the Brooklyn Heights woman tragically, horrifyingly killed by a private sanitation truck last month:
January 15, 2007
Public Health and Livable Streets: Making the Connection
Thirty years ago the health arguments against car-dependence were 90 percent about air pollution and 10 percent about physical inactivity. Now, with tailpipe pollution down and obesity and diabetes up, those percentages are reversed. The latest evidence is a valuable new report, Steps to Get New Yorkers Moving (PDF file), from the Public Health Association of New York City.
January 11, 2007
Bicoastal Garbage Disposal Practices
Via a Streetsblog tipster: In Valley Village, Calif., near L.A., people leave their trash in the bike lane for the convenience of the sanitation crews.
January 11, 2007
Memorializing Killed Cyclists: Is it Good for Cycling?
Yesterday, scores of cyclists took to the streets in a memorial ride for the 14 bikers and 134 pedestrians known to have been killed by motor vehicles on the streets of New York City in 2006 (photo, right). I didn't get to go on the ride but I heard from some who did that it was a moving and affirming event. All of the city's major dailies covered it -- headlines below.
January 8, 2007
New German Community Models Car-Free Living
The Vauban Department of Transportation gets to work. Schritt Tempo: Walking Speed.
December 22, 2006