The War on Cars
New episode! "Road Ecology with Ben Goldfarb."
In his new book, "Crossings: How Road Ecology Is Shaping The Future of Our Planet," independent conservation journalist Ben Goldfarb writes about how roads and cars are wreaking havoc on nature.
He reports back about the people trying to save everything from butterflies to deer to wallabies to salamanders from the destructive power of motordom.
Listen:
https://thewaroncars.org/2023/12/19/116-road-ecology-with-ben-goldfarb/
The War on Cars
"This year, the average weight of a new car in the US was more than 4,300lb (2,000kg) – a full 1,000lb (450kg) more than in 1980."
The War on Cars
"...critics insist it will cause irreversible damage to one of the UK’s most important prehistoric sites, perhaps causing it to lose its Unesco world heritage status."
The War on Cars
"It makes everything in my life more convenient, and I absolutely love it. Possibly more importantly, it’s also just downright fun."
https://jalopnik.com/i-bought-an-e-bike-and-its-now-my-entire-personality-1851039791
The War on Cars
"The most dangerous things on our streets are cars and trucks, multi-ton chunks of metal, glass and plastic designed to move at high speeds through urban and suburban environments that are, more often then not, designed for the flow of vehicles rather than the movement of people."
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/28/opinion/cars-pedestrians-death.html
The War on Cars
"In 2021, half of all trips in the United States were less than three miles, according to the Bureau of Transportation Statistics. Making those short trips on an e-bike instead of in a car would likely save people money, cut their emissions, and improve their health and happiness."
The War on Cars
Publishing, welcome to The War on Cars.
The War on Cars
“When people are not in metal boxes but are meeting and looking at each other and acknowledging them, they have a higher sense of belonging, a higher sense of community and trust.”
The War on Cars
"The average annual cost of ownership is up more than 13 percent from last year to more than $12,000, or just over $1,000 a month, according to the latest research from the automobile owners group AAA."
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/09/22/your-money/car-ownership-costs-increase.html
The War on Cars
“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.”
The War on Cars
"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
The War on Cars
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/
The War on Cars
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/
The War on Cars
"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 War on Cars
"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/
The War on Cars
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.
The War on Cars
"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."
The War on Cars
"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.
The War on Cars
"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."
The War on Cars
"...car culture produces pollution. Pollution hurts humans. By reinforcing car culture we are committing ourselves to further worsening air pollution and worse health effects."
A podcast about the fight against car culture. Hosted by Aaron Naparstek, Sarah Goodyear and Doug Gordon. (You can find our individual accounts on Mastodon.)
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