It's finally here! "Life After Cars: Freeing Ourselves From the Tyranny of the Automobile" is now available wherever you buy books. Thank you to everyone who has made this day possible, including our amazing podcast listeners. We hope everyone finds the book valuable! Please buy the book and spread the word!
Life After Cars
Life After Cars
"Tactical urbanism has the power to pierce the automotive bubble that so frequently surrounds politicians — sometimes in an almost literal sense, because so many elected officials are driven everywhere." Read an excerpt from "Life After Cars," out tomorrow!
How Tactical Urbanists Make the Water Visible to the Fish
Revisiting an early movement to take over on-street parking and reclaim it for people.
Let us know if you see these around New York tomorrow on your commute. “Life After Cars” comes out on Tuesday!
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Life After Cars: Freeing Ourselves from the Tyranny of the Automobile
NATIONAL BESTSELLERFrom the hosts of The War on Cars podcast, a searing indictment of how cars ruin everything—and what we can do to fight backWh...
Hoboken Mayor Ravi Bhalla on Jordan Peterson: “Being triggered by safe streets and Hoboken’s zero traffic deaths in 7 years is certainly a mood."
The Daily Beast
Jordan Peterson Whines Over ‘Woke’ Drop in Traffic Deaths
To the culture warrior, limiting parking spaces are considered a dire infringement of individual liberties, and not worth the obvious benefit to pu...
NEW EPISODE: Fixing America’s Car Culture with David Zipper. We talk with @npub1vyml...a8a2 -- one of the hardest-working analysts on the transportation scene today -- about the excesses of the auto industry, our road fatality crisis, the absurd way speed limits are determined on American streets, and whether we might ever be able to swap out our bloated SUVs for electric golf carts. Available now!
117. Fixing America’s Car Culture with David Zipper – The War on Cars
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“Kenny DeForest was one of the funniest and most beloved comics any of us knew. A tragedy. Watch his special on YouTube. It came out three months ago. It’s beautiful. Fuck Cars forever."
Comics Enraged After Brooklyn-Based Performer Dies in Tragic Crash - Streetsblog New York City
Comedians are calling out the dangers of cars after one of their own was killed by a driver while biking in Brooklyn last week.
Milan Mayor Giuseppe Sala: “I am not an antagonist of capitalism, but honestly seeing the parade of supercars in the centre which they then can't park can’t continue."
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Milan plans to ban cars from city centre by mid 2024
Levels of pollutants in Milan's air are almost four times the safe amount.
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"The highway would bring extreme noise and pollution to the city. Honestly this is going to harm everybody. It's a nonsense project no matter how you look at it." #TheWarOnCars #highways #berlin #cars #CarsRuinCities
Berliners rave against motorway extension threatening cultural venues
Clubbers hold street party protesting against plan to flatten 20 venues in path of ring road extension
Not only did two driverless cars block an ambulance from taking a critically injured person to the hospital before he died, but the victim needed to go to the hospital in the first place after being stuck by the driver of a different car.
Driverless Taxis Blocked Ambulance in Fatal Accident, San Francisco Fire Dept. Says (Published 2023)
Two Cruise taxis delayed an ambulance carrying a car accident victim to a hospital, a department report said. The company said it was not at fault.