Hello War on Cars supporters!
If you can believe it, September will mark three years since we launched The War on Cars. We decided that the best way to celebrate is by including the voices of the people who make it all possi...
2021-08-30 14:54:31 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello Patreon supporters!
Here's another bonus episode just for you. As always, thanks for your support!
- Aaron, Sarah and Doug
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Tom Flood used to work in the ad industry in Toronto on campaigns...
2021-08-10 10:31:01 +0000 UTC View Post
As many of you know, we held our very first War on Cars Meetup in Brooklyn a few weekends ago. We actually started planning this event almost two years ago but, you know… a global pandemic kind of got in the way. After so many months of relative...
2021-07-28 11:49:05 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey, Patreons!
Here's another special episode just for you. As always, thanks for your support. We truly appreciate it.
- Aaron, Sarah and Doug
It sure was a busy week for our transportation tech bro overlords. Elon Mu...
2021-07-14 10:00:04 +0000 UTC View Post
Thanks to everyone who attended the first-ever War on Cars meetup! We had attendees from all corners of New York, including the Bronx, Manhattan, Queens and Brooklyn as well as listeners who came in from Connecticut and New Jersey. Special shoutou...
2021-07-12 01:45:30 +0000 UTC View Post
Breaking News! Following weeks of negotiations, and as a mind-boggling heat wave settled on the Pacific Northwest, President Joe Biden and a bipartisan group of ten Senators stepped out of a closed-door meeting at the White House to announce theyâ...
2021-06-30 17:48:31 +0000 UTC View PostHello, friends of The War on Cars!
To celebrate summer and the return of some version of normal, we're pleased to announce the first-ever War on Cars in-person meetup! Join the hosts and friends of the podca...
2021-06-18 01:05:22 +0000 UTC View Post
We’re vaxxed and we’re back! In this very special reunion episode, Sarah, Doug and Aaron return to the studio for the first time in fifteen months. Fifteen months! The COVID-19 pandemic has been a wild, earth-shattering, world-historic event w...
2021-06-15 13:53:02 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello War on Cars Supporters!
You might remember Sean Kenney as one of the voices in Episode 65, “Where are the...
2021-06-10 11:00:04 +0000 UTC View Post
Why are there no bike lanes in LEGO City? That’s a question Marcel Steeman, a regional councillor in the Netherlands, asked himself one day in 2016 while assembling some LEGO sets with his kids. As a Dutchman, he thought the lack of bike lanes o...
2021-06-07 11:50:36 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello War on Cars supporters!
A new episode is overdue, so enjoy this bonus to round out the month of May. It's our thanks for your continued support of the podcast. We're working on two mega episodes for general release — truly our bigges...
2021-05-28 10:30:59 +0000 UTC View PostThis podcast usually focuses on the victims of traffic violence, and that is where the focus belongs. But in this episode, we hear the first-person story of a woman, Shane Snowdon, who killed someone with her car.
It happened more than 20 ye...
2021-05-03 13:27:35 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello Patreon supporters!
Everyone knows that physical activity is one of the keys to staying healthy, yet few people are able to get the proper amount of daily exercise recommended by health professionals. Around the world, 1.5 billion peop...
2021-04-28 16:57:57 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello War on Cars supporters!
It's time for another episode and this one takes on the big guy himself: Elon Musk. Will he listen? Will Musk fanbois? We shall see. They, and you, can listen to this one wherever you get your podcasts.
We...
2021-04-20 13:39:04 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello War on Cars supporters!
Here's a special Saturday surprise episode featuring all three of us back together — still virtually until we're all 100% vaccinated, of course — to discuss what has felt like a whirlwind week of big transpo...
2021-04-03 12:31:00 +0000 UTC View Post
Mikael Colville-Andersen's name is practically synonymous with Copenhagen, bicycling and smart urban design. In 2007, Mikael launched what would become known as the 2021-03-24 10:01:01 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello War on Cars supporters!
Our new episode is now available wherever you get your podcasts. For this one, Aaron interviewed New York Times columnist Jamelle Bouie about how his new e-bike turned and how riding one changed his perspective ...
2021-03-15 12:24:36 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello War on Cars supporters,
Welcome to March! We're back with a new episode, this time interviewing Congressman Earl Blumenauer of Oregon about a new bill that would lower the cost of electric bike ownership by providing Americans who purc...
2021-03-02 14:48:23 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello Patreon supporters!
We're proud to announce the launch of a new newsletter featuring the latest from the frontlines in The War on Cars. It's called 2021-02-24 18:53:05 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello War on Cars supporters!
Happy Monday! Our new episode, all about a cool housing development in Portland, Oregon that pu...
2021-02-22 15:31:56 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello War on Cars Supporters!
In January, Doug was a guest on the great Streets Ahead podcast, bas...
2021-02-19 15:46:00 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello War on Cars supporters!
Our new episode is here! We take a look at the Super Bowl car ads - and some ads that were about car culture even if they weren't for cars - and talk about what they say about America and what we're up against i...
2021-02-09 13:27:59 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello War on Cars supporters! Our new general-release episode is available wherever you get your podcasts. It's a good one that brings the fight directly to car companies, courtesy of journalist Andrew Hawkins. We hope you enjoy it.
We'll ha...
2021-01-27 14:00:53 +0000 UTC View Post
In this exclusive episode just for supporters of The War on Cars, our very own Sarah Goodyear speaks with the man who introduced the world to mountain biking: Gary Fisher. Fisher talks about his sometimes psychedelic autobiography, 2021-01-19 11:30:01 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello War on Cars supporters,
Happy new year! Our new episode is here and available wherever you get your podcasts. This one is a bit more philosophical, and hopefully you'll find it meaningful during these early weeks of 2021.
We'd lo...
2021-01-13 13:09:36 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello Patreon supporters!
In addition to letting you all know about our new episode, we wanted to thank you. We know that it's been a difficult year for so many people and it has truly warmed our hearts to know that so many people all over t...
2020-12-30 15:07:03 +0000 UTC View PostHello, War on Cars supporters!
We're recording a year-end recap episode and would love to hear from you. Yes, you! Send us your questions, comments, reactions to previous episodes... you name it. Something notable happening in your town? A d...
2020-12-21 16:44:23 +0000 UTC View Post
Under the leadership of Mayor Anne Hidalgo, the city of Paris has transformed itself, turning streets that were once clogged with cars into places for people on bikes and on foot. In response to the pandemic, the city quickly installed “coro...
2020-12-10 12:24:21 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello, War on Cars supporters!
Many of you have probably already heard Episode 52, "Honk If You Loved 2020," about all the ways in which cars played a role in the 2020 U.S. Presidential election. This episode, which we're releasing e...
2020-11-20 15:32:20 +0000 UTC View Post
Aaron, Sarah and Doug are together again in this new episode!
Automobiles played an oversized role in the news this year, from the country’s response to the pandemic to the strange twists and turns of the presidential election. In fact, so...
2020-11-17 12:56:09 +0000 UTC View Post