Podcast Episodes

TEASER: Coach Balto's Bike Bus Lessons

While working on Episode 110, Back to School with the Bike Bus, we spoke with Sam Balto, a phys ed teacher in Portland, Oregon, who goes by @CoachBalto and who's become one of the most visible advoc…

Published on 2 years, 3 months ago

Back to School with the Bike Bus

If you've never heard of a bike bus—or a bicibús, as it's known in the Catalonian capital of Barcelona—it's a beautifully simple idea. Kids and parents ride their bikes to school along a pre-planned …

Published on 2 years, 3 months ago

Inclusive Transportation with Veronica O. Davis

Episode 109

In her new book, Inclusive Transportation: A Manifesto for Repairing Divided Communities, Veronica O. Davis — the Director of Transportation and Drainage Operations for the city of Houston, Texas — t…

Published on 2 years, 4 months ago

TEASER: Chaos in the Bike Lane with Aaron Gordon

The rising problem of mopeds and motorcycles in New York City bike lanes is impossible to ignore but the solutions are anything but simple.

Recently, journalist and friend of the podcast Aaron Gordon…

Published on 2 years, 4 months ago

EXTRA: Inside Automotive Journalism with Bob Sorokanich

***This is a bonus episode that was previously only available to Patreon supporters of The War on Cars. If you want to hear more bonus episodes like this, please enlist today! We'll taking a very sho…

Published on 2 years, 4 months ago

TEASER: Live from New York!

This special episode of The War on Cars was recorded live before a sold-out audience at Caveat on the Lower East Side of Manhattan and was styled after a community board meeting... except instead of …

Published on 2 years, 5 months ago

Traffication with Paul Donald

In his groundbreaking book, Traffication: How Cars Destroy Nature and What We Can Do About It, scientist and researcher Paul Donald synthesizes dozens of studies to help us understand what cars and r…

Published on 2 years, 5 months ago

SPECIAL: Freeway Exit

This is a special presentation of the first episode of Freeway Exit, a six-part series produced by award-winning reporter Andrew Bowen of KPBS Public Media in San Diego, California. Freeway Exit reve…

Published on 2 years, 5 months ago

Is It Worth It To Confront Drivers?

Episode 107

Have you ever been walking across the street when a driver turned into your path and almost hit you? Or riding your bike when a hostile horn-honker laid into you for delaying them to the next red lig…

Published on 2 years, 6 months ago

TEASER: Inside Automotive Journalism with Bob Sorokanich

Have you ever wondered what the reporters who cover the auto industry think about oversized SUVs and pickups and whether the fever for these gas-guzzling, space-hogging, planet-heating and people-ki…

Published on 2 years, 6 months ago