StreetRidersNYC
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 Jun 202026min
Democracy in the Streets
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 Jun 202026min
Victory?
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 Mai 202031min
"Driving While Black" with Gretchen Sorin
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 Mai 202029min
TEASER: PODAPALOOZA for COVID-19 Relief
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 Apr 20202min
It's Zero Percent About Transportation with Alex Brook Lynn
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 Apr 202033min
Cars, Climate and Cities with Bill McKibben
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 Apr 202032min
Field Dispatches from Four Continents
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 Mar 202032min
