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

Turkeys, welcome to The War on Cars.

https://www.cbsnews.com/boston/news/turkey-attacking-boston-car-tiktok-viral-video/

A good explainer video from @citynerd on what a Trump victory and Project 2025 will mean for transportation in U.S. cities. (Spoiler alert: every transportation dollar will go for highway expansions and subsidizing driving and none will go to mass transit and safer streets.)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LmKtZ34IVYc

#project2025

If you're looking for an alternative to Prime Day and want to support independent booksellers, Bookshop dot org is offering free shipping today. We have lists of books for anyone fighting a war on cars, including books for kids.

https://bookshop.org/shop/thewaroncars

NEW EPISODE: "John Forester and Vehicular Cycling, Part 1."

John Forester's influence shaped bicycle safety in the U.S. for decades. We take a deep dive into his 1976 book, Effective Cycling, and the idea that cyclists should "act like drivers of vehicles."

Part 1 available wherever you listen to podcasts. The full episode is available now to Patreon supporters.

https://thewaroncars.org/2024/07/09/131-vehicular-cycling-and-john-forester-part-1/

Hochul reflects today’s wider, fearful culture, increasingly distracted by partisan politics, focusing on swing voters, not swinging for the fences. She said, in effect, that she paused congestion pricing because it doesn’t poll well. It didn’t poll well before it was instituted in London or Stockholm, either, where it has been solving gridlock, increasing bus ridership and reducing asthma rates. Opinion shifted in those cities after residents saw the benefits.

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/06/09/arts/nyc-hochul-congestion-pricing.html

NEW EPISODE:

"Women's Freedom to Ride."

Why don’t more women ride bicycles in London? The advocacy group London Cycling Campaign wanted to know, and so they asked. What they discovered was disturbing. Hear what advocates are doing to make cycling safer and more accessible for everyone.

https://thewaroncars.org/2024/06/11/128-womens-freedom-to-ride/

#london #cycling #thewaroncars #podcast

NEW EMERGENCY EPISODE!

"Kathy Hochul's Congestion Pricing Flip-Flop Fiasco." We discuss the 11th-hour decision to “indefinitely suspend” congestion pricing in New York. Was this bad politics or atrociously bad politics? What does it mean for the future of the subway, the economy, the environment and more?

More importantly, what can you do to save it?

https://thewaroncars.org/2024/06/07/kathy-hochuls-congestion-pricing-flip-flop-fiasco/

#newyork #podcast #thewaroncars #congestionpricing

"Paris has closed more than 100 streets to motor vehicles, tripled parking fees for SUVs, removed roughly 50,000 parking spots, and constructed more than 1,300 kilometers of bike lanes since Mayor Anne Hidalgo took office in 2014. Those changes have contributed to a 40% decline in air pollution..."

https://www.nbcnews.com/science/environment/paris-olympics-city-reduce-air-pollution-rcna153470

#thewaroncars #podcast #paris

NEW EPISODE!

"Winter Cycling in Oil Country"

An unlikely cycling revolution is happening in Edmonton, Alberta. Despite freezing temps, lots of sprawl and an economy built on pulling oil out of the Albertan tar sands, the Canadian city is in the midst of a four-year, $100 million CAD investment in active transportation that will connect the city with a network of high-quality, protected bike lanes.

Hear from the folks making it happen!

https://thewaroncars.org/2024/05/21/126-winter-cycling-in-oil-country/

#thewaroncars #edmonton #podcast

New episode!

"The Texas Freeway Fight with Megan Kimble."

In her new book, Kimble tells the stories of the communities in the path of TxDOT’s bulldozers and the brave Texans fighting to save their homes, neighborhoods, and cities from a seemingly implacable foe.

https://thewaroncars.org/2024/04/02/123-the-texas-freeway-fight-with-megan-kimble/

A pretty historic moment in The War on Cars.

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/27/briefing/new-york-city-congestion-pricing-baltimore-bridge-collapse.html

"Singh sets the package down outside the door, takes a photo and hops on his bike to his next stop. In the nearly 20 minutes it took me to go by car two miles across Manhattan, Singh biked the distance and made nine deliveries in the rain."

https://www.marketplace.org/2024/03/21/package-deliveries-are-clogging-city-streets/

"We find that, since their invention, cars and automobility have killed 60–80 million people and injured at least 2 billion. Currently, 1 in 34 deaths are caused by automobility."

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0966692324000267

Anne Hidalgo: "Cars Will Not Return To the Eiffel Tower" after the Olympic Games.

"The Trocadéro will be greened and the Pont d'Iéna pedestrianized, up to the Champ de Mars, which will be reforested. The whole thing will form a large park in the heart of Paris."

#Paris #olympics #cars #cities

https://www.bfmtv.com/paris/paris-anne-hidalgo-promet-que-les-voitures-ne-reviendront-pas-devant-la-tour-eiffel-apres-les-jo_AN-202402050864.html

NEW EPISODE!

"Should SUVs Be Banned?"

Adfree Cities, an advocacy group in the UK successfully got an ad for the Toyota Hilux SUV that shows drivers ripping through sensitive natural areas and cities taken off the airwaves and streets.

We talked with two members of the organization about how they’re tackling the auto industry’s most egregious marketing campaigns.

Available wherever you get your podcasts.

https://thewaroncars.org/2024/02/06/119-should-suv-ads-be-banned/

#thewaroncars #advertising #suv #suvs #podcast

Hoboken, NJ has gone seven consecutive years without a traffic fatality. They've also seen a significant reduction in injuries, with significant injuries down 62% between 2022 and 2023. This has been achieved largely by lowering speed limits and redesigning streets.

https://www.hobokennj.gov/news/city-of-hoboken-reaches-new-vision-zero-milestone-seven-consecutive-years-without-a-traffic-death

#hoboken #VisionZero #traffic #safety

NEW EPISODE!
The Future of Transportation Has Arrived With Your Pad Thai.
https://thewaroncars.org/2024/01/16/the-future-of-transportation-has-arrived-with-your-pad-thai

Baruch Herzfeld is the CEO and co-founder of PopWheels, a Brooklyn-based start-up developing NYC's first e-bike battery-swapping network. What if there is a high-tech urban mobility revolution happening right under our noses, but we can’t see it because the people who are delivering it to our city are mostly invisible to us?

NEW EPISODE: Fixing America’s Car Culture with David Zipper.

We talk with @davidzipper -- one of the hardest-working analysts on the transportation scene today -- about the excesses of the auto industry, our road fatality crisis, the absurd way speed limits are determined on American streets, and whether we might ever be able to swap out our bloated SUVs for electric golf carts.

Available now!

https://thewaroncars.org/2024/01/02/fixing-americas-car-culture-with-david-zipper/

#thewaroncars #transportation #cars

Surprise bonus episode dropping tomorrow, which won't be a surprise to Mastodon users since we're only telling you for now.

If you're not already a Patreon subscriber, sign up for access.

https://www.patreon.com/thewaroncarspod

“All I can tell you,” the Tesla manager said, “is we’re not a 100-year-old company like GM and Ford. We haven’t worked all the bugs out yet.”

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https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/tesla-musk-steering-suspension/

#thewaroncars #tesla #transportation #cars