The War on Cars

In the span of one month the StreetRiders have become a major presence in the Black Lives Matter movement in New York. Their weekly bike protests have taken over streets, bridges and highways and attr...

30 Kesä 202026min

What are streets for? Who are streets for? And what makes a street feel truly safe, welcoming and comfortable for everyone? On May 25, police officers in Minneapolis, Minnesota murdered George Floyd s...

25 Kesä 202026min

As cities around the world have gone into lockdown and instituted social distancing measures to slow the spread of the covid19 pandemic, something unexpected has happened: We've gotten an impromptu de...

22 Touko 202031min

Historian Gretchen Sorin has written a fascinating new book, "Driving While Black: African American Travel and the Road to Civil Rights," that dives into the role the car played in the 20th-century Af...

8 Touko 202029min

The War on Cars is taking the stage for Podapalooza, a virtual podcast festival for the benefit of COVID-19 relief, on April 25th and 26th. We'll be releasing one of our favorite old episodes to intro...

20 Huhti 20202min

This episode was recorded and originally aired, November 2018. When is a car not a car? When it's a source of solace and comfort, a curbside living room and a personal aesthetic statement. This epis...

18 Huhti 202033min

From his 1989 book The End of Nature, which was the first to explain global warming to a general audience, to co-founding the climate-change activism group 350.org, there are few people with more exp...

6 Huhti 202032min

In this, our second episode of the COVID-19 era, we hear from listeners around the globe about how their cities look and feel. Is it safe to ride transit? How does it feel to walk through towns and ci...

29 Maalis 202032min