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The War on Cars — 240 episodes

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A Physical Education with Casey Johnston

2

Streets for Play, Streets for Freedom

3

EPISODE 170: A Doctor's View of Traffic Violence

4

PREVIEW: Let's Get Political

5

Tony Kushner on The Pushcart War

6

America's Hidden Desire to Live Car-Free

7

PREVIEW: What Snow Reveals About Cities (Plus More From Our Book Tour)

8

Planning Livable Downtowns with Brent Toderian

9

Superbowl Roundup with Ian Chillag

10

PREVIEW: Women Changing Cities with Melissa and Chris Bruntlett

11

The Importance of Livable Streets with Bruce Appleyard

12

The Creation of America's Car Culture, Part 2

13

PREVIEW: Hanging Out with Jonathan Maus of Bike Portland

14

Dispatches from Book Tour, Part 2

15

Dispatches from Book Tour

16

The Creation of America's Car Culture

17

PREVIEW: A Talk with Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo

18

Welcome to Life After Cars

19

The War on the War on Cars with Ted Mann

20

Cities for Children with Tim Gill

21

PREVIEW: The Cars of TikTok

22

Political Courage with Brad Lander

23

TEASER: Cars Drive Us Apart, Subway Takes Unite Us

24

Should the Bus Be Free? With Yonah Freemark

25

PREVIEW: We Know What We Read Last Summer

26

BUILDING SOLIDARITY WITH BICYCLES AT VELO-CITY

27

PREVIEW: Are Cyclists Too Mean Online?

28

What Makes a City a Cycling City?

29

John Mulaney, Natasha Lyonne and the Battle of the Bike Lanes

30

TEASER: Live from Minneapolis!

31

Overcoming the Threat to Black Movement with Charles T. Brown

32

More Motornormativity with Marco te Brömmelstroet, aka "The Fietsprofessor"

33

Putting the Trans in Transit with Katelyn Burns

34

TEASER: Why Fighting Tesla Matters with Ed Niedermeyer

35

Inside the Tesla Takedown Protests

36

TEASER: More Motonormativity with Marco Te Brommelstroet, aka "The Fietsprofessor."

37

Cars Bad, Tariffs Worse with David Zipper

38

Riding the UK's Cycle Network with Laura Laker

39

Trump v. Congestion Pricing

40

What's Happening with Federal Transportation Dollars?

41

TEASER: Live with City Nerd!

42

Super Bowl Roundup with Rollie Williams and Nicole Conlan

43

RE-RELEASE: The High Cost of Free Parking with Donald Shoup

44

TEASER: The Romance of the Automobile

45

Biden's Transportation Legacy with Dani Simons

46

Congestion Pricing Is Finally Here

47

Cities and Fashion with Derek Guy, The Menswear Guy

48

TEASER: Your Best Things of 2024

49

How Cars Change Us with Tara Goddard

50

Changing Hollywood's Car Culture with Ed Begley Jr.

51

TEASER: Doug Ford and Ontario's War on Bikes

52

Election Extra

53

"Cars are Done" with Adam McKay

54

EXTRA: Cars as a Virus with Hermann Knoflacher

55

TEASER: Winnipeg Bike Mayor Patty Wiens

56

Key to the City with Sara Bronin

57

TEASER: When Athletes Ditch the Car

58

Project 2025 and the Stakes for Transportation

59

What We Did on Our Summer Vacation, featuring Rick Steves

60

TEASER: Voices of Velo-city

61

Listener Origin Stories (Patreon Bonus Re-Release)

62

TEASER: Walking 4,000 Miles with Holden Ringer

63

Vehicular Cycling and John Forester, Part 2

64

Vehicular Cycling and John Forester, Part 1

65

Critical Mass Nairobi with Cyprine Odada

66

Killed by a Traffic Engineer

67

Women's Freedom to Ride

68

Kathy Hochul's Congestion Pricing Flip-Flop Fiasco

69

TEASER: The War on The War on Cars

70

Winter Cycling in Oil Country

71

When Driving Is Not an Option with Anna Zivarts

72

TEASER: Dodge's "Deeply Weird" Pitch for Electric Muscle Cars

73

Tesla Cybertrash with Ed Niedermeyer

74

The Texas Freeway Fight with Megan Kimble

75

Car Insurance is Too Cheap

76

Live from New York with Bernie Wagenblast

77

TEASER: Super Bowl Extra

78

Super Bowl LVIII Roundup

79

Should SUV Ads Be Banned?

80

TEASER: Delivering the Goods with Shawon and Fokhrul

81

The Future of Transportation Has Arrived With Your Pad Thai

82

Fixing America's Car Culture with David Zipper

83

TEASER: Listener Origin Stories

84

TEASER: Hess for the Holidays

85

Road Ecology with Ben Goldfarb

86

What the Hell is Happening In the UK?

87

TEASER: Origin Stories

88

John Bauters, America's Bike Mayor

89

Dark PR with Grant Ennis

90

Unintended Consequences with Steven Johnson

91

TEASER: Celebrating Your Wins!

92

Why Congestion Pricing Matters with Diana Lind

93

TEASER: Coach Balto's Bike Bus Lessons

94

Back to School with the Bike Bus

95

Inclusive Transportation with Veronica O. Davis

96

TEASER: Chaos in the Bike Lane with Aaron Gordon

97

EXTRA: Inside Automotive Journalism with Bob Sorokanich

98

TEASER: Live from New York!

99

Traffication with Paul Donald

100

SPECIAL: Freeway Exit

101

Is It Worth It To Confront Drivers?

102

TEASER: Inside Automotive Journalism with Bob Sorokanich

103

Nick Offerman

104

TEASER: Hollywood and Bikes, Take 2

105

Paved Paradise with Henry Grabar

106

TEASER: Discovering Oil with Amy Westervelt

107

Arrested Mobility with Charles Brown

108

TEASER: Into the Fold with Brompton's Will Butler-Adams

109

Why Does Hollywood Hate Bikes?

110

TEASER: You Can't Afford to Live Here Because of Cars

111

CONSPIRACY!

112

Feminist City with Leslie Kern

113

TEASER: Super Bowl Roundup

114

The War on Cars Turns 100

115

TEASER: Cars, Consumerism and Climate

116

Car Brain with Dr. Ian Walker

117

The High Cost of Free Parking with Donald Shoup

118

Deconstructing Muscle Car City

119

RERELEASE: There Are No Accidents with Jessie Singer

120

TEASER: What We Knew About Elon

121

Three is the Magic Number with Mike Radenbaugh

122

Muscle Car City: We Are in the Movie

123

TEASER: Deleted Scenes with Dan Savage

124

TEASER: Soccer and Cities with Tesho Akindele

125

Make Love Not Cars with Dan Savage

126

Walking the Walk with Jonathon Stalls

127

Making Milwaukee a Bike City

128

Welcome to Muscle Car City

129

The War on Cars Heats Up

130

Better Living by Bicycle with George Hahn

131

TEASER: 'Shade of Trespass' with Garnette Cadogan

132

All Bodies on Bikes with Marley Blonsky

133

TEASER: Tech Won't Save Transportation with Paris Marx

134

Distracted to Death

135

Tesla is a Fraud with Ed Niedermeyer

136

How to Save a Planet with Kendra Pierre-Louis

137

Two Wheels Good with Jody Rosen

138

Infiltrating the Auto Show II

139

They Paved r/place and Put Up a Parking Lot

140

The Pedestrian

141

Pain at the Pump

142

SPECIAL: Ghost Train

143

TEASER: The Godfathers of Disinformation

144

Vapor Bowl Tailgate Party with Amy Westervelt

145

TEASER: Jessie Singer on the Problem with Public Service Campaigns

146

There Are No Accidents with Jessie Singer

147

What Uber Hath Wrought [Rerelease]

148

The End of Uber with Cory Doctorow

149

TEASER: Let's Crush These Dirt Bikes with Alex Pareene

150

311 is a Joke with Alex Pareene

151

TEASER: Cars as a Virus with Hermann Knoflacher

152

Curbing Traffic with Melissa and Chris Bruntlett

153

Smells Like Teen Climate Anxiety

154

Live in New York with Choire Sicha

155

Not Just Bikes with Jason Slaughter

156

Third Anniversary Mailbag

157

TEASER: Hashtag Ban Cars With Michael Hobbes

158

You're Wrong About Bikes with Michael Hobbes

159

Lab Meat and Electric Cars with Alicia Kennedy

160

Return of the Vermonter

161

The E-Bike Radicalization of Jessica Valenti

162

SUMMER SPECIAL: Meet Mr. Barricade

163

SUMMER SPECIAL: Being Gary Fisher, the Interview

164

TEASER: Going Viral With Tom Flood

165

A Word From Our Listeners

166

TEASER: Way Too Many Tech Bros

167

God Help Us, It's Really Infrastructure Week

168

The One Where They Go Back to the Studio

169

TEASER: Building LEGO Cities with Sean Kenney

170

Where are the Bike Lanes In Lego City?

171

TEASER: Meet Mr. Barricade

172

The Driver

173

TEASER: The Miracle Pill with Peter Walker

174

The Emperor's New Tunnel

175

It's Finally Infrastructure Week

176

TEASER: Lessons from Copenhagen with Mikael Colville-Andersen

177

Jamelle Bouie Has Seen the Future of Transportation

178

The Power of E-Bikes with Congressman Earl Blumenauer

179

Housing for People, Not Cars

180

Episode LVIII

181

Test Driving the 2021 Cadillac Escalade with Andrew Hawkins

182

Humane Streets with Anil Dash

183

Mayor Pete at the Drive-Thru

184

The French Connection

185

Cars and the Law with Greg Shill

186

Honk If You Loved 2020

187

Getting the Car Out of Carbon Emissions

188

America's Love Affair With Cars

189

Winning the War on Cars in Rural America

190

Right of Way

191

Policing the Open Road [Rerelease]

192

Vehicles as Weapons

193

Crash Course with Woodrow Phoenix

194

StreetRidersNYC

195

Democracy in the Streets

196

Victory?

197

"Driving While Black" with Gretchen Sorin

198

TEASER: PODAPALOOZA for COVID-19 Relief

199

It's Zero Percent About Transportation with Alex Brook Lynn

200

Cars, Climate and Cities with Bill McKibben

201

Field Dispatches from Four Continents

202

Riding Out the Pandemic

203

On the Bus with Pat Kiernan and Jamie Stelter

204

Finnish Lessons

205

Live in Denver!

206

Suburbans in the City

207

Department of Bikeland Security

208

WCAR Drive Time Radio

209

Kara Swisher Says Car Ownership is Finished

210

You Get a Car!

211

The Automotive Police State

212

What Uber Hath Wrought

213

The Problem With Public Meetings, Part 2

214

The Problem with Public Meetings, Part 1

215

Dying for Change

216

Found in Translation: TWOC Goes to Japan

217

Barcelona's Superblocks with David Roberts of Vox.

218

Adam Conover Ruins The War On Cars

219

The War On Cars Meets Car Talk - The Full Interview

220

WCAR - Easy Listening, Tough Questions

221

Self-Driving Kids

222

Your Car Is Your Castle

223

Breaking the Law

224

Infiltrating the Auto Show

225

Collateral Damage: Theresa's Story

226

Can the Millennials Win the War on Cars?

227

The War on Cars Meets Car Talk

228

Making the Bus Sexy Again

229

Propaganda Blitz

230

WCAR Talk Radio

231

Whoops! The Liberal Blind Spot for Cars

232

Cars Versus Guns

233

Why So Serious? The Lighter Side of The War On Cars.

234

Nice Legs, Dude

235

Quit Your Car: It's Zero Percent About Transportation.

236

If E-Bikes Are the Future, Why Are They Illegal?

237

Cars and the Culture Wars

238

Mayors: The Good, the Bad and Bill de Blasio

239

Attack of the Robocars!

240

Why the World Needs The War on Cars