Count the SUVs on your block

This is more pronounced in the suburbs, but there are plenty of large vehicles and SUVs running around with DC plates. (I still advocate for larger cars paying much higher residential parking permit fees.)

From the Brian Lehrer Show on WNYC radio in New York City, "How Many SUVs Are on Your block?"

One of the comments:

Scarsdale, NY
1) Scarsdale High School parking lot, Scarsdale, NY
2) 98 SUV
3) 162 total vehicles
4) Only 3 SUVs in the teachers' parking area.

Suburban kids driving to school instead of taking the school bus is one of the rites of passage into car culture.

And related to the issue of "user generated content" and something I was just thinking about this morning, that there is still a kind of "civic activism" even though people say it's dead amongst the younger generation, it's just being directed to things in the Web 2.0, from "friendspaces" like Myspace, which is also used by political campaigns, to neighborhood-based webmapping projects (see "With Tools on Web, Amateurs Reshape Mapmaking," from the New York Times), people participating in this project can (and have) uploaded photos to Flickr, here: Your SUV photos on flickr.