Rethinking Criminal Consequences for Drivers Who Kill
What should happen to drivers who kill or injure someone with their car? Does a focus on punishment for "reckless" or "dangerous" drivers le...
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The War on Cars
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20 of 244 episodesChanging Lanes
What does it take to make a street safer for everyone? In the US, it typically requires a combination of tragedy, grassroots organizing, and...
PREVIEW: Sean Duffy's Great American Road Grift
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Taking the Transportation Fight to Congress from NY-7
Antonio Reynoso, Claire Valdez, and Julie Won are all running in the June 23 Democratic primary for New York's 7th congressional district. T...
A Physical Education with Casey Johnston
Just as it is with road safety, so much of how Americans talk about health pushes the responsibility for eating right and exercising onto th...
Streets for Play, Streets for Freedom
Streets can be more than places to move and store cars—they can be places for children to grow and thrive. Alice Ferguson and Tim Gill are t...
EPISODE 170: A Doctor's View of Traffic Violence
We talk with a guest who knows firsthand just how destructive cars can be. Dr. Rex Tai is a physician who works in long-term care. Many of h...
PREVIEW: Let's Get Political
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Tony Kushner on The Pushcart War
The Pushcart War —written by Jean Merrill and illustrated by Ronni Solbert and first published in 1964—is a charming and provocative childre...
America's Hidden Desire to Live Car-Free
Do people really like our all-enveloping autocentric system quite as much as everyone keeps saying they do? What kind of communities would t...
PREVIEW: What Snow Reveals About Cities (Plus More From Our Book Tour)
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Planning Livable Downtowns with Brent Toderian
Brent Toderian has decades of experience in city planning, urban design, and transportation. He was chief planner for the city of Vancouver...
Superbowl Roundup with Ian Chillag
Super Bowl LX had everything, from ads for weight loss drugs and male grooming products to spots touting tax prep services and calming fears...
PREVIEW: Women Changing Cities with Melissa and Chris Bruntlett
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The Importance of Livable Streets with Bruce Appleyard
We talked with Dr. Bruce Appleyard, who has spent a lifetime thinking about what we mean when we talk about liveable streets—and why it is s...
The Creation of America's Car Culture, Part 2
Signed into law by President Dwight D. Eisenhower, The Federal-Aid Highway Act of 1956, otherwise known as the National Interstate and Defen...
PREVIEW: Hanging Out with Jonathan Maus of Bike Portland
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Dispatches from Book Tour, Part 2
We are back home in Brooklyn but we can't stop talking about everything we saw out on the road on our Life After Cars book tour. Listen for...
Dispatches from Book Tour
The last few weeks have been a whirlwind as we hit the road (not in a car) to promote our new book, Life After Cars , in some of the greates...
The Creation of America's Car Culture
This episode is part of a special series called "Changing American Car Culture" funded with the generous support of The Helen and William Ma...