You Get a Car!
It's one of the most famous moments in daytime TV history, but what really happened when Oprah Winfrey gave a brand new Pontiac G6 to every member of her studio audience? Leave it to The War on Cars t...
20 Nov 201923min
The Automotive Police State
For a century, the automobile has been sold to Americans as the ultimate freedom machine. In her groundbreaking new book, "Policing the Open Road," historian and legal scholar Sarah Seo explodes that ...
31 Okt 201935min
What Uber Hath Wrought
For a few years after Uber launched in 2009, it seemed like the on-demand ride-hailing service might be an advance in the war on cars — a way for more people to share fewer vehicles and to reduce over...
16 Okt 201930min
The Problem With Public Meetings, Part 2
In Part 1 of "The Problem With Public Meetings" we took you inside a difficult community meeting in Fort Greene, Brooklyn and urged compassion and understanding for neighbors who aren't quite yet on b...
4 Okt 201932min
The Problem with Public Meetings, Part 1
In the battle to make cities better for walking, biking and transit, there's no more important front line than local community meetings. So when a flyer advertising a town-hall forum about the New Yor...
2 Okt 201932min
Dying for Change
Twenty-one people riding bicycles have been killed this year on the streets of New York City. That's more than double the number of bike fatalities in all of 2018. In early July, after a terrible week...
17 Sep 201931min
Found in Translation: TWOC Goes to Japan
When you're used to the culture of streets in the United States of America — that is, variations on kill or be killed — traveling to countries that do it differently can be both a shock to the system ...
30 Aug 201930min
Barcelona's Superblocks with David Roberts of Vox.
Barcelona, Spain is testing out a powerful new weapon in the war on cars. It's called the Superilla or, in english, the "Superblock." Last October, Vox Media's energy and environment reporter David Ro...
19 Aug 201934min
