Writing in a NYT op-ed, Owen D. Gutfreund, a professor of history and urban studies at Barnard College and author of 20th-Century Sprawl: Highways and the Reshaping of the American Landscape, says,
It’s imperative that we rethink the way we approach transportation. Our highway policy has remained largely the same since the 1950s even as driving [...]
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make big car owners pay
Posted in cars, economic justice, population pressure, sustainability, urban design on April 9, 2008 | 1 Comment »
gas guzzlers should pay
Posted in cars, climate change on April 3, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Poll: Make gas guzzlers pay higher fees
A telephone survey of 1,500 Californians, dialed randomly, found support for green transportation taxes and fees – charges that rise and fall with the amount of pollution a vehicle emits.
– 63 percent supported doubling the vehicle registration fee, now an average of $31, and charging higher rates for polluting [...]
not just the tailpipe
Posted in cars, climate change, sustainability, urban design on February 14, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
My Other Car is a Bright Green City by Alex Steffen
Our vehicle emissions are a major climate change contributor, but what comes out of the tailpipe is only a fraction of the total climate impact of driving a car, and the climate impact is in turn only a part of the environmental and social damage [...]
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