The War on Cars
@TheWarOnCars
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A podcast about the fight against car culture. Hosts @buttermilk1 , @BrooklynSpoke & @Naparstek . Find us on other platforms
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In this video, the pedestrian is walking in the middle of the day in the intersection after activating a set of flashing lights. The driver is staring at his phone. These two things are not "a two-way street."
Pedestrian safety is a two-way street. What pedestrians and drivers can do to make our roadways safer
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Great idea. You could even run them on pairs of metal tracks and connect a bunch of cars together to increase capacity.
The self-driving car problem will be solved by roads built for self-driving cars.
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At least give Ford's North America Product Communications Director credit for admitting what studies show, which is that most people will never use their pickup trucks to haul anything heavier than a cup of coffee.
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We did not know that distracted walking can be just as dangerous as distracted driving because we've never known distracted walkers to, say, mow down a crowd of people on the sidewalk or crash into a building and damage its structural integrity.
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Looks like it’s working as planned!
Getting high centred on a poorly planned bike lane @ Gorge/Tillicum is ‘chill as hell’.
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Robert Downey Jr., welcome to The War on Cars.
Every 1M spent on bike lanes creates 18 more jobs than the same amount for regular auto centric roads…lets “self-propel” our planets future….
#bikelanesrock
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"This is your brain on car culture...it's the illusion of convenience."
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Amsterdam to drop the citywide speed limit to 30 kph, or 18 mph. "The new speed limit should result in 20 to 30 percent fewer serious accidents. Noise pollution should also decrease."
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William Nylander of the Toronto Maple Leafs, welcome to The War on Cars.
William Nylander takes the subway because he hates being in traffic 😅
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You'd never know from the headline that Grossman is accused of driving 80 mph — "allegedly racing" with another driver — and killing two boys, ages 11 and 8, who were "skateboarding and rollerblading on the street as the rest of their family walked nearby."
Rebecca Grossman’s perfect life became a perfect nightmare. “Everything changed in a split second—overnight,” she tells Los Angeles during a half-hour Zoom call from her lawyer’s office in October.
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The menswear guy, welcome to The War on Cars.
the american mind can't comprehend the level of racism, classism, and special interest automobile lobby groups that made cities like this impossible.
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Amtrak, welcome to The War on... Driverless Cars.
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Eagles fans, welcome to The War on Cars.
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One more lane oughta fix it.
'Twas the traffic nightmare before Thanksgiving as commuters sat through bumper-to-bumper traffic on the 405 Freeway in LA
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The barricades don’t slow down traffic? How much slower could that car be going?
Hey
@CityofVancouver
this is second incident I’ve seen caused by these useless ‘slow street’ barricades installed last month. They don’t slow down traffic; they cause crashes and traffic chaos.
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Kelly Oubre Jr. is 6' 7" and he was "struck in the upper chest area" by a vehicle.
From Philadelphia Police Department: Kelly Oubre Jr. was struck in the upper chest area by a silver vehicle traveling at a high-rate speed on Saturday night.
The car fled the scene.
In addition to broken ribs, Oubre has injuries to his hip and right leg.
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"After traveling 4,500 miles, I have spent less than $5 on electricity. Five dollars! That’s less than a cost of a mocha latte something at Starbucks. That is astounding."
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David Byrne, welcome to The War on Cars.
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Left, an unsustainable suburb with gas-burning cars. Right, a sustainable suburb with electric cars.
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The menswear guy, welcome to The War on Cars.
it's actually very reasonable to not want to commute for three hours per day and we should figure out a way to organize cities so that fewer people have to do that
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The car industry's vision of the future is bleak, with more individualism, societal collapse, and despair. The livable streets movement's vision of the future is positive, with more community, sociability, and happiness. We should be able to win this fight.
Honestly, I don’t know how the competition isn’t shitting their pants seeing the Cybertruck surviving this kind of testing
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Coming soon to run over children in your neighborhood.
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If you go one layer deeper, the actually funny thing is using a 5,000-lb metal box that kills 40,000 Americans per year and is powered by climate-destabilizing dinosaur juice to carry the same or even smaller amount of groceries.
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What's in here that couldn't fit into the trunk of a 1991 Buick Skylark?
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The menswear guy, welcome once again to The War on Cars.
overcoats look so much better when they reach at least your knees. the only problem with a knee-length coat is that it's cumbersome when you get in and out of cars (hence why pic 1 is called a car coat). but this is all the more reason to walk or take public transport
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"If we let SUVs keep fouling the planet we might as well admit there’s no sacrifice we’re willing to make for the climate."
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We call this “car blindness.”
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Move over, city! You're getting in the way of our highway.
Move over Chicago, there’s a new interchange in town. 😎
#JBI
#MidCenturyModern
#Meets21stCentury
#IDOT
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Tom Brady, welcome to The War on Cars.
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Toronto Mayor Olivia Chow, welcome to The War on Cars.
New Toronto mayor Olivia Chow arrives to be sworn in, leading hundreds of cyclists on her first day.
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New episode! Actor, humorist, author and woodworker
@Nick_Offerman
joins us to talk about riding a bike in New York and Los Angeles, our stewardship of Planet Earth, and why the best way to explore an unfamiliar city is at the speed of a good walk.
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The lousy off-road handling is a non-issue once you realize that the standard Cybertruck use-case involves spending lots of time in line at the Chick-fil-A drive-thru.
wtf is this my Ranger could handle this hill how do you let this footage see the light of day
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"You cannot just paint lines on roads and think that you have bike lanes and then brag about it on your city website saying 'We have 500 miles of bike lanes.' No. Those bike lanes are just death traps."
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When we say "ban cars," this is the kind of stuff we have in mind.
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Cars don't shop. People do.
We partnered with Mastercard to look at how pedestrianizing 11 blocks of 5th Avenue last holiday season impacted the local economy. Guess what? It drove an estimated $3M in additional spending with merchants seeing a 6.6% increase in sales.
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"John Capp, the director of vehicle safety technology, strategy and regulation at General Motors, stressed that there is not enough data about pedestrian traffic deaths to understand the causes..."
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One more lane oughta fix it.
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With car payments this high, it would be cheaper to buy a new e-bike *every month* and just give the old ones away.
Does this dealership realize this makes them all look really bad????
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Vehicles like this have no place in cities.
Monster truck with tinted windows and military flag bullying pedestrians who have the light on Chambers St., 8:15am.
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Just in case it isn't clear, the prey in this metaphor is other road users like pedestrians, cyclists and kids.
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“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."
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"60% of trips are less than six miles, and three-quarters of all trips are less than 10 miles... If there were safe places to ride and secure places to park, then millions of car trips could be avoided, and millions of cars taken off the road."
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Rick Steves, welcome once again to The War on Cars.
I'm enthralled by the energy on Madrid's traffic-free boulevard, Gran Vía.
Would you give up a car-centric street in your town to enjoy a wonderful scene like this...?
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Kids, welcome to The War on Cars.
These children have barricaded themselves against diggers sent to rip out the pedestrianisation outside their school.
It’s right to reduce traffic outside schools. It’s safer, healthier and better for the planet.
These kids know it. They’re heroes.
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Senator John Fetterman, welcome to The War on Cars.
I believe that there is a street safety crisis in America.
Losing hundreds of lives to unsafe streets is unacceptable. My bill, the Building Safer Streets Act, will help fix this chronic issue here in PA & across the country.
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Runners, welcome to The War on Cars.
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It’s okay because eventually drivers will be able to do this in *electric* cars.
Someone in Mission Viejo woke up today and chose violence 😳
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Gritty, welcome to The War on Cars.
i bike to work now so i can stop being part of the problem and start being part of the solution
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Our time is now.
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"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."
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You are not stuck in traffic, you are traffic.
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One more tunnel oughta fix it.
Boring company's "traffic-jam-solving-tunnel" has traffic jams lol.
Cue everyone telling me that car tubes are more sustainable than an actual functioning public transit network 😉
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Unbelievably sick story in every way: The homicidal behavior of the 16-year-old driver, his oversized “coal-rolling” truck, the lax police response urging drivers to “be more careful” (as if this attack was an accident), and the passive-voiced reporting by local news. Repellent.
“The reason he couldn’t stop is because he was accelerating to blow more diesel fuel on these cyclists.”
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Drive-thrus are the ultimate manifestation of car culture, offloading private costs and externalities onto the public. In this essay we will
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Meteorites! Welcome to The War on Cars.
STRASBOURG : Une possible météorite est tombée ce matin à
#Strasbourg
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“It’s not my duty as mayor to make sure you have a parking spot. 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."
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Wales, welcome to The War on Cars.
For years we’ve tried to beat traffic by building more roads. It hasn’t worked.
Around the world, building more roads and lanes has resulted in more traffic.
That’s why we are going to do things differently in Wales.
#RoadsReview
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"Around 8,500 cyclists prevented motorists from using a stretch of Germany's autobahn, during a protest calling for better public transport and cycle lanes."
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Federal e-bike tax credit when?
On my watch, the great American road trip is going to be fully electrified.
And now, through a tax credit, you can get up to $7,500 on a new electric vehicle.
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“This is a car for people who wish their car could be a gun. It should be outlawed.”
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Mark Ruffalo, welcome to The War on Cars.
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NEW EPISODE! "Why Does Hollywood Hate Bikes?" From "The 40-Year-Old Virgin" to "Arrested Development," chances are if a character rides a bicycle in a movie or TV show that character is a *huge* loser. Slate's
@pahwa_nitish
joins us to discuss.
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For an added touch of reality, they display some of the cars at the Auto Show parked in fake crosswalks.
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"I love biking in the city because you can go wherever you want. You don’t have to wait for the subway or be stuck in traffic."
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"The Shrine is one of 3 '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."
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Was the roundabout texting? And why wasn’t the roundabout wearing bright, reflective clothing?
CAR GOES FLYING: A suspected DUI driver slammed into a roundabout in Long Beach, launching the vehicle several feet into the air and catapulting a massive boulder toward nearby vehicles.
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What a world where cities cap e-scooter speeds at about 12 - 15 mph but this “family” vehicle is capable of going 180 mph.
This is the Dodge Durango Hellcat, a family SUV with 6 seats, 710 horsepower and speeds of up to 180 mph.
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The crossing guard was in crosswalk and wearing head-to-toe bright clothing... there's a lesson here if cities want to learn it.
Crossing Guard In Cecil County
#MD
Saves Child by pushing her out the way from speeding car.
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What if the secret to achieving Vision Zero is zero cars?
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Anti-bike politicians who are suddenly VERY concerned about cyclists breathing in pollution from cars... it's a thing.
Culver City Councilmember scolds parents for allowing their kids to bike in a PROTECTED bike lane:
"My god, parents! You should not have your kids there! I should never ever have my kids bike on those streets... you really shouldn't encourage your young to bike"
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“I understand that Teslas are pretty much computers and they happen to manufacture vehicles but… it looks like toddlers put this together during recess.”
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Not all heroes wear capes.
Grandmother uses hair dryer as fake radar gun to deter speeding on local street
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CBS Sunday Morning, welcome to The War on Cars.
According to a recent study, more than 7,500 pedestrians were killed by a vehicle in 2022, an average of 20 people a day — the highest number in 40 years. But experts say, the design of the roads themselves is to blame.
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Shared scooters are typically limited to a top speed of 15 mph because of safety concerns.
Unreal video from Fairfax County Police. Officer was doing a traffic stop near Fairfax when FCPD says a 17 yr old driving a BMW M3 over 120 mph lost control & slammed into the pulled over car. It’s a miracle but no one involved was seriously hurt. Turn the sound up to hear it.
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Swifties, welcome to The War on Cars.
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Rick Steves, welcome to The War on Cars.
I'm enthralled by the energy on Madrid's traffic-free boulevard, Gran Vía.
Would you give up a car-centric street in your town to enjoy a wonderful scene like this...?
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Had to double check that this wasn’t a parody account. Nope. It’s the actual Governor of New York.
The Kew Gardens Interchange project is complete!
The overhaul of this corridor is great news for nearly 600,000 daily motorists, pedestrians, cyclists, & our ambitious climate goals.
When it comes to modernizing our infrastructure, we’re keeping our foot on the accelerator. 🚘
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One of these things belongs in cities. The other is a pickup truck.
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To be clear, this was not how we intended to win the war on cars.
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The good news is the U.S. has built a resilient and redundant transportation system with extensive high-speed rail coverage, abundant commuter lines, bus rapid transit, and large local bike lane networks so people have many options other than driving.
BREAKING— Aerial view of I-95 collapse from
#Chopper3
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@CBSPhiladelphia
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One more lane oughta fix it.
WATCH: Brake lights in both directions on 405 Freeway in West LA as Thanksgiving travel rush gets underway
Stu Mundel has the latest
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Nothing says “individual freedom” like needing to be licensed by the state to sit in traffic in a car you technically don’t own because you owe payments to a bank.
Cars have given Americans unparalleled individual freedom.
'Progressives' hate individual freedom.
So NYC plans to “break the car culture.”
Watch for NYC traffic to get even more nightmarish.
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Sure but this one time we saw a cyclist ride on the sidewalk.
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For distinguishing herself through conspicuous gallantry, valor and intrepidity at the risk of life above and beyond the call to duty, we hereby decorate the gentlelady in Seattle with the TWOC Medal of Honor. A grateful podcast thanks you for your service, ma'am.
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Back then it would have just been called "walking."
A Sunday stroll down memory lane... Boston circa 1903. No sound. Just an incredible amount of jaywalking.
(🎞 via
@GBHArchives
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