Podcast Episodes

Crash Course with Woodrow Phoenix

Episode 46

"I wrote this book to make you mad." So declares British writer and artist Woodrow Phoenix in the afterward of his new graphic novel Crash Course. Subtitled, "If You Want To Get Away With Murder, Buy…

Published on 5 years, 5 months ago

StreetRidersNYC

Episode 45

In the span of one month the StreetRiders have become a major presence in the Black Lives Matter movement in New York. Their weekly bike protests have taken over streets, bridges and highways and att…

Published on 5 years, 6 months ago

Democracy in the Streets

Episode 44

What are streets for? Who are streets for? And what makes a street feel truly safe, welcoming and comfortable for everyone? On May 25, police officers in Minneapolis, Minnesota murdered George Floyd …

Published on 5 years, 6 months ago

Victory?

Episode 43

As cities around the world have gone into lockdown and instituted social distancing measures to slow the spread of the covid19 pandemic, something unexpected has happened: We've gotten an impromptu d…

Published on 5 years, 7 months ago

"Driving While Black" with Gretchen Sorin

Episode 42

Historian Gretchen Sorin has written a fascinating new book, "Driving While Black: African American Travel and the Road to Civil Rights," that dives into the role the car played in the 20th-century A…

Published on 5 years, 7 months ago

TEASER: PODAPALOOZA for COVID-19 Relief

The War on Cars is taking the stage for Podapalooza, a virtual podcast festival for the benefit of COVID-19 relief, on April 25th and 26th. We'll be releasing one of our favorite old episodes to intr…

Published on 5 years, 8 months ago

It's Zero Percent About Transportation with Alex Brook Lynn

This episode was recorded and originally aired, November 2018. 

When is a car not a car? When it's a source of solace and comfort, a curbside living room and a personal aesthetic statement. This epi…

Published on 5 years, 8 months ago

Cars, Climate and Changing Cities with Bill McKibben

Episode 41

From his 1989 book The End of Nature, which was the first to explain global warming to a general audience, to co-founding the climate-change activism group 350.org, there are few people with more ex…

Published on 5 years, 8 months ago

Field Dispatches from Four Continents

Episode 40

In this, our second episode of the COVID-19 era, we hear from listeners around the globe about how their cities look and feel. Is it safe to ride transit? How does it feel to walk through towns and c…

Published on 5 years, 9 months ago

Riding Out the Pandemic

Episode 39

Recording from their makeshift home studios, Sarah, Doug and Aaron check in with each other, field listener voicemails and reorient themselves to the new normal of the coronavirus crisis. Not a lot o…

Published on 5 years, 9 months ago