The War on Cars

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 intro...

20 Apr 20202min

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 epis...

18 Apr 202033min

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 exp...

6 Apr 202032min

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 ci...

29 Mars 202032min

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 of...

20 Mars 202031min

Pat Kiernan and Jamie Stelter are the dynamic duo of local TV news. As two of the hosts of "Mornings on 1" on Spectrum NY1, Pat and Jamie do more than just wake up early to deliver the latest updates ...

17 Mars 202032min

What can cold cities, where people nonetheless bike year-round through snow and seemingly endless hours of darkness, tell us about what it takes to make better streets? In this episode, Sarah reports ...

4 Mars 202032min

For our first live episode, The War on Cars heads to Denver, Colorado to check in on the Mile High City's battle against automobile dominance. From the announcement that the Denver Department of Trans...

21 Feb 202041min