Recent Streetsblog USA posts about Car-Free Streets

Reducing driving and converting diesel engines to electric ones could slash a billion metric tons of C02 emissions.

Less Driving, More Electrics Will Reduce Emissions

By Aaron Short | Oct 15, 2019

People need to live and work radically differently if the United States can even hope to get halfway towards becoming carbon neutral by 2050, but a new paper released last month says the most important change would come in how we get around.

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Car-Free Busway is Frankly a Big Success

By Dave Colon | Oct 8, 2019

"The street looks better, it's nice," one customer at Joe's Pizza said. "It's ridiculous, I don't know any New Yorker who would take a cab just to get a slice of pizza."

The BBC tested air pollution levels for people who drove, biked, and walked to school -- and found those who took their cars were exposed to the highest levels of pollutants.

Report: Drivers Inhale More Pollution than Cyclists

By Aaron Short | Oct 8, 2019 | 2 Comments

Poetic justice: People who drive end up being exposed to more pollution from their cars than people who ride bikes or walk, a new report found.

Pence Commits Vehicular Home-Cide

By Aaron Short | Sep 23, 2019 | 3 Comments

The Vice President enraged Michigan residents by driving his eight-car motorcade through car-free Mackinac Island Saturday.

A design firm proposed new guiding principles for planners and engineers: ethics, equity, and empathy. Image: Toole Design

Manifesto Promotes ‘Ethics, Equity, and Empathy’

By Aaron Short | Sep 20, 2019 | 2 Comments

A design firm publishes a new 'credo' for engineers, policymakers, and planners.

Activists want San Francisco to consider car free zones in neighborhoods like the Tenderloin where a spate of pedestrian injuries and deaths have occurred this year.

Car-Free Zones Eyed in SF, Elsewhere

By Aaron Short | Sep 18, 2019 | 1 Comment

A string of pedestrian injuries and deaths in San Francisco’s Tenderloin district has spurred city leaders to demand a ban on cars in some densely populated neighborhoods — the latest in a nascent and long-overdue move by activists nationwide to get reckless drivers off at least a tiny handful of city streets. San Francisco Supervisor […]

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