Notices by The War on Cars (thewaroncars@mastodon.social), page 3

“It’s not my duty as mayor to make sure you have a parking spot,” he said at a 2020 conference. “For me, it’s the same as if you bought a cow, or a refrigerator, and then asked me where you’re going to put them.”

https://www.fastcompany.com/90952175/this-spanish-city-has-been-restricting-cars-for-24-years-heres-what-we-can-learn-from-it

"If your vehicle was made in the last few years, you’re probably driving around in a data-harvesting machine that may collect personal information as sensitive as your race, weight, and sexual activity."

https://gizmodo.com/mozilla-new-cars-data-privacy-report-1850805416

New episode!

Back to School on the Bike Bus!

We rode along with bike buses in Barcelona and suburban Montclair, New Jersey, and we talked with organizer Sam Balto in Portland, Oregon, to find out why kids who ride with bike buses get to school feeling happy and energized.

Available wherever you get your podcasts.

https://thewaroncars.org/2023/09/05/111-back-to-school-with-the-bike-bus/

#TheWarOnCars #bikebus #bikes

New episode! "Inclusive Transportation with Veronica O. Davis." We speak with Houston's Director of Transportation and Drainage Operations about her new book, how to repair communities divided by highways and dangerous streets, ways to rethink public engagement, and more.

Listen now:

https://thewaroncars.org/2023/08/22/109-inclusive-transportation-with-veronica-o-davis/

#TheWarOnCars #transportation

"In 2021, more than half of the vehicles that received one speed-camera ticket did not receive a second — another sign, officials say, that the cameras have made a difference."

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/11/nyregion/david-simon-wire-speeding-ticket.html

"The success of the SUV over the past two decades – in which time it has pretty much seen off the estate car, the previous vehicle of choice for the upwardly mobile family – is largely a triumph of marketing over sense... To some extent, we’re buying these cars because we’re being told to."

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/cars/features/your-car-is-too-big-heres-why/

Check out our very own Doug Gordon in this video from Propel Electric Bikes covering everything from the name of the podcast, the "pro-freedom" argument for fewer cars in our lives, the benefits of car-free and car-lite spaces, and the history of advocacy in New York City.

#thewaroncars

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fhihTG8KgSs

"Instead of giving the biggest incentives to the biggest batteries, government policy should focus on electrifying the vast majority of daily trips, which start and end at home and could easily be handled by vehicles with 100 miles of range or less.... That means incentivizing e-bikes, plug-in hybrids, and other small battery electric vehicles, not holding fleet electrification hostage to the 5 percent use cases."

#EV #climate #cars #climatechange #tesla #ebike

https://slate.com/technology/2023/07/tesla-range-complaints-deception-electric-vehicles-battery-size.html

"Urbanism is the acceptance of the fact that one's life is heavily dependent on strangers."

Great interview with Charles Mudede from 2016. Worth a listen, including for his full embrace of the war on cars.

http://www.mikemcginn.co/podcast-2/2016/2/1/charles-mudede-writer-urbanism-is-the-acceptance-of-the-fact-that-life-depends-on-strangers

"The Shrine is one of three 'drive-through' Redwoods in the area and is estimated to be some 2,500 years old. That means that it was around at about the same time that Pythagoras died. Now some dude in an oversized Nissan just damaged it with his wing mirror."

https://www.carscoops.com/2023/07/man-damages-2500-year-old-tree-by-driving-nissan-armada-through-it/amp/

"...car culture produces pollution. Pollution hurts humans. By reinforcing car culture we are committing ourselves to further worsening air pollution and worse health effects."

#TheWarOnCars #climate #climatechange #pollution #cars

https://nyc.streetsblog.org/2023/07/14/car-culture-produces-pollution-pollution-hurts-humans-ny1-meteorologist-john-davitt-on-cars-and-the-climate-crisis

“There are no dirt paths , no mountain roads … SUVs are absolutely useless in Paris. Worse, they are dangerous, cumbersome and use too many resources to manufacture."

#TheWarOnCars #suv #paris

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/jul/11/paris-charge-suv-drivers-higher-parking-fees-tackle-auto-besity

"In fact, wear and tear on tires and brakes have been shown to produce increasingly more particle pollution, by mass, than car exhaust systems did in several real-world and test scenarios. Some of the particles are large enough to see with our eyes. Others are fine particles (known as PM 2.5, with diameters up to 2.5 microns) and ultrafine particles (known as PM 0.1, with diameters of 100 nanometers), which can enter through our bloodstream and harm our organs."

https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2023/07/09/tire-brake-tailpipes-emissions-pollution-cars/

"Soon, I found myself consuming memes on r/fuckcars, bingeing the Not Just Bikes YouTube channel, following Strong Towns on Instagram, signing up for the Our Built Environment Substack, subscribing to The War on Cars podcast and more.... In the span of only a few weeks, I went from proverbial Prius Lover to Car Destroyer."

https://www.cnet.com/science/climate/how-i-learned-to-hate-cars-and-what-im-doing-about-it/

"...the city of Paris has made enormous investments in public transit, built hundreds of miles of bike paths, and closed many streets to cars. Car trips within the city dropped by almost sixty per cent between 2001 and 2018, car crashes dropped by thirty per cent, and pollution has improved. The city is quieter and calmer; test scores go up as the air around schools cleans up."

#TheWarOnCars #Paris #climatechange

https://www.newyorker.com/news/daily-comment/to-save-the-planet-should-we-really-be-moving-slower

“An e-bike is a car trip replacer,” Cherry said, “but an e-cargo bike is a car replacer. An e-cargo bike offers a chance to do just about anything that most Americans need a car to do, like school runs, grocery runs, and so on.”

#TheWarOnCars #ebike #ebikes

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-03-15/the-electric-vehicles-we-need-now-are-e-bikes

Okay, Mastodon followers! You get first dibs on these.

Inspired by episode 95, "Make Love Not Cars with Dan Savage," we have new 4' x 4' stickers in the store.

Available in packs of 5.

https://the-war-on-cars.myshopify.com/products/make-love-not-cars-sticker-5-pack

Have you ever been walking across the street when a driver turned into your path and almost hit you? How did you respond? Did you lash out verbally or dare to lay hands on their precious vehicle?

In Episode 107, we ask: Is It Worth It To Confront Drivers?

Available wherever you get your podcasts.

#TheWarOnCars #podcast #cars #bicycle #walking

https://thewaroncars.org/2023/06/27/107-is-it-worth-it-to-confront-drivers/

"We can redesign our streets as much as we want, but at a certain point we also have to start to look at the shape and the weight of these vehicles."

https://www.curbed.com/2023/06/new-york-suv-trucks-weight-based-fee.html

"Apocalyptic gridlock did not ensnare the Philadelphia area. Truck traffic did not come to a halt. In fact, more people rode the train or took alternate routes and life marched on."

https://www.vice.com/en/article/v7bb99/i-95-philadelphia-carmageddon-never-happened-data-shows