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TheWarOnCars

@TheWarOnCars@mastodon.social

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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HyL, to edmonton
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FINALLY! @TheWarOnCars episode based on the Winter Cycling Congress 2024 is out:
"Winter Cycling in Oil Country":
An unlikely cycling revolution is happening in , Alberta. Despite freezing temps, sprawl, an economy built on tar sands, this city is in the midst of a 4-year, C$100M investment in active transportation that will connect the city with a network of high-quality, protected bike lanes.

Hear from the folks doing it"

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

seachanger, to random
@seachanger@alaskan.social avatar

I asked my small biz customers to pay by check or e-check and many actually have! I have to invoice them separately so it’s tedious but the real ones are down. well, the real ones plus the lady from Texas who told me she was happy to start getting in the habit of paying for things by check due to the 15 minute city people eventually using credit cards to shut down commerce from longer distances 🤗

seachanger,
@seachanger@alaskan.social avatar

@kristinHenry @mivox it is astonishing, luckily I had learned about the 15 min City Conspiracy from @TheWarOnCars so I didn’t have to ask any follow up questions

https://pca.st/episode/df87209f-5e42-4cf2-b830-9f3da81b8f4b

TheWarOnCars, to edmonton
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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/

someguyjg,
@someguyjg@mastodon.gamedev.place avatar

@TheWarOnCars I loved the end of the radio interview where the one host tried to sneak in his anti bike rhetoric talking about the cost of bike lanes, followed by Doug's fast reflexes redirecting it to the cost of highways.

andymckay, to random
@andymckay@mastodon.social avatar

This week the @TheWarOnCars mentioned that 30% of the US does not have a drivers license.

I did the numbers for British Columbia, Canada and got over 25% do not have drivers licenses.

https://beyondcars.ca/not-everyone-can-drive.html

triker, to random
@triker@mstdn.plus avatar

We're looking into mobility options for our parents who can't drive any more. Just found out about Van Raam adaptive cycles, they have dealerships in the US and Europe. If you can't or don't want to drive a car one of their awesome cycles may help you! They have side-by-side sociable tandems, low step through delta trikes, wheelchair transport bikes and electric assist options. They even have tandem couplers so you can train the sociable tandem and trikes together.

https://www.vanraam.com/en-gb/our-bikes/side-by-side-tandem-bikes

triker,
@triker@mstdn.plus avatar

If you are interested in adaptive cycling and the 30% of people in the US who can't or don't drive you might also want to take a listen to the new @TheWarOnCars on Cars podcast, an interview with the author of 'When Driving is Not an Option,' Anna Zivarts

https://sites.libsyn.com/132228/when-driving-is-not-an-option-with-anna-zivarts

TheWarOnCars, to Podcast
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NEW EPISODE!

"When Driving is Not an Option with Anna Zivarts."

One-third of people in the US can’t drive. Those tens of millions of people are often invisible to planners and elected officials, and that’s why Anna Letitia Zivarts, a low-vision nondriver and activist has written a new book, "When Driving Is Not an Option: Steering Away from Car Dependency." We talked with Anna about building a system that works for everyone.

https://thewaroncars.org/2024/05/07/125-when-driving-is-not-an-option-with-anna-zivarts/

TheWarOnCars,
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Pick up Anna's new book as well as books by former guests of the podcast and support independent booksellers at our official Bookshop dot org page.

https://bookshop.org/shop/thewaroncars

pezmico, to Podcast
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I say yes! And further, #BanCars because #CarsRuinCities

Should SUV ads be banned? - by @TheWarOnCars
https://pca.st/episode/ed646d83-cf4a-4076-b243-4e297233b06f

#podcast

tantramar, to random
@tantramar@nojack.easydns.ca avatar

An excellent episode of @TheWarOnCars, which examines the creepy cult of Musk: https://overcast.fm/+O31qUmve4

SNerd, to random
@SNerd@lor.sh avatar

Something to put a smile on your face

TheWarOnCars, to random
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We just dropped a special bonus episode for Patreon subscribers! "Dodge’s 'Deeply Weird' Pitch for Electric Muscle Cars." A continuation of last week's Cybertruck discussion with author Ed Niedermeyer. Join and listen!
https://www.patreon.com/posts/bonus-dodges-for-102975980

mszll, to datascience
@mszll@datasci.social avatar

📢 New preprint: Urban highways are barriers to social ties: https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.11596

We overlay the highway network with a massive, geolocated online social network (Twitter 2012), and measure how social ties are impacted by highway segments. We find a strong barrier effect in all 50 considered US cities. See below - the red squares show that this effect is stronger for short distances.

@TheWarOnCars

Figure of a heatmap (left) and a bar plot(right) over 50 cities. (Left) Heatmap of all Barrier Scores B(d) grouped into 0.5 km bins of social tie distance. Color denotes Barrier Score, square size denotes the fraction of social ties in each distance band relative to all ties in the city. All cities have positive Barrier Scores over most distances. Often, there is a smoothly reached peak distance, for example in Orlando at around dpeak ≈ 1.5 km. The top row labelled “ALL CITIES” reports the distance-binned Barrier Scores averaged over all cities. (Right) The bar plot labelled “CITY” reports the Barrier Score B calculated considering all ties with distances up to 10 km.

forpeterssake, to random
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Cars are a scam.

@TheWarOnCars

https://www.vox.com/2024/4/10/24125612/rising-car-payments-auto-loans-hidden-fees

xanthidiumwewahitchkense, to random French
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Trixie Mattel would love @TheWarOnCars

Naparstek, to random
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We know that smashing freeways through the middle of U.S. cities was an unmitigated disaster of 20th century urban planning. So, why is the State of Texas still tearing down homes, schools, and businesses and spending tens of billions of dollars to widen Interstates through the middle of Houston, Dallas and Austin? In her excellent new book, "City Limits," journalist Megan Kimble seeks to answer this question. On the new episode @TheWarOnCars...
https://thewaroncars.org/2024/04/02/123-the-texas-freeway-fight-with-megan-kimble/

TheWarOnCars, to random
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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/

TheWarOnCars, to Insurance
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NEW EPISODE: "Car Insurance is Too Cheap."

It's never been more expensive to insure a car, but coverage barely covers the full personal and societal harm of car crashes, something we all pay for whether we drive or not — and that traffic violence victims subsidize with their life and limb.

Available wherever you get your podcasts.

https://thewaroncars.org/2024/03/19/122-car-insurance-is-too-cheap/

#thewaroncars #insurance #podcast

veleau_monica,
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@TheWarOnCars listening right now and TYSM for covering. I've been following you since the beginning, but also Michelle Dubarry. Subrogation also came for me in 2018. Less than 3 weeks after donating my car to WAMU, hit by a driver. AU insurance wanted some of my settlement back--- it ended up being the VALUE of the car I'd just donated to my own workplace.

MonKaiju,
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@TheWarOnCars Every once in a while y'all have an episode that reminds me that you're at least comfortably middle class. Many of the solutions you push, including this one, would disproportionately harm low income folks who need a car for work. Sure lets raise insurance on fancy cars and second cars or whatever, anything considered a luxury car, but to just say 'car insurance rates should go up' is so tone deaf to the millions of folks in the US who need cars through no fault of their own and cant afford to live as is.

PeterRobison, to random
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Just a reminder that the average price of a vehicle ($48k) is close to DOUBLE the amount of minimum insurance that TN requires ($25k bodily injury, $15k for property).

As this article argues, victims of car crashes are bearing the costs of the harms caused by driving. Put another way, car crash victims are basically subsidizing car insurance and car usage in America.

From The Economist: Why car insurance in America is actually too cheap
https://www.economist.com/united-states/2024/01/18/why-car-insurance-in-america-is-actually-too-cheap

PeterRobison,
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And if you want to know more about how insurance minimums, no-fault laws, and subrogation liens work—all told in a surprisingly accessible way—this episode of @TheWarOnCars does a really good job. I highly recommend it.

https://sites.libsyn.com/132228/car-insurance-is-too-cheap

MrLee, to mastodon
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If you want to follow The War On Cars Podcast on #Mastodon, and get notified of new episodes, here is the link.
@2434565
#Podcasts #Urbansim #TheWarOnCars #FuckCars
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TheWarOnCars, to random
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Except for the fact that they require a license from the state to operate, a loan from a major financial institution to purchase, insurance to shield users from the cost of their harms, and can be used to collect and share driver data without their full consent, cars represent freedom, baby!

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/11/technology/carmakers-driver-tracking-insurance.html

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qlp,
@qlp@linh.social avatar

@TheWarOnCars For anyone interested, here's a gift link to the article: https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/11/technology/carmakers-driver-tracking-insurance.html?unlocked_article_code=1.b00.eyBE.nkIsNiKycNip&smid=url-share

pezmico, to Podcast
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Road Ecology on @TheWarOnCars

A fascinating conversation on the ecological effects of having roads everywhere and how we even stop noticing them.

Very appropriate for our decision makers.

https://pca.st/episode/b9b397ec-a982-4cb7-89d5-b780d820a06c

TheWarOnCars, to Podcast
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It's March.

Save 10% on everything in our official store now through the end of the month with code MARCHMADNESS.

Includes apparel, stickers, water bottles, and more.

https://the-war-on-cars.myshopify.com/discount/MARCHMADNESS?redirect=%2Fcollections%2Ffrontpage

Blue t-shirt with square yellow logo that says The War on Cars.

kvnweb, to random
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Extraordinarily good @TheWarOnCars piece from January (ostensibly) about the new battery swap system in NYC. But it's actually about people and economic justice. As all transport/urban policy reporting should be.

I'm fully on board with this narrative: the electrification revolution started a decade ago, led by low income folks because electrifying small vehicles lowers the cost of participating in society. We need to embrace that and help make it even cheaper and safer.
https://thewaroncars.org/2024/01/16/the-future-of-transportation-has-arrived-with-your-pad-thai/

player_03, to random
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I've started listening to @TheWarOnCars, and I'm impressed by how many angles they approach the subject from. They've gone into depth on the lives of immigrant workers, the process of getting a billboard taken down, the mindset you want to have on a city council, and even a little biology and ecology. It's like the variety channel of urbanism.

I think some of this is due to the podcast interview format. They find someone new to interview for each episode, so they're always getting a new perspective.

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