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The War on Cars — 252 episodes

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Fine, We're Doing a Helmet Episode

2

PREVIEW: What Bicycles Can Do for Cities, via Velo-city 2026

3

Let's Get Political [Re-release]

4

Human Transit with Jarrett Walker

5

PREVIEW: Bike is Best with Adam Tranter

6

Final Dispatches from Book Tour

7

Sidewalk Nation

8

PREVIEW: Urban Planning Pop with Pondless

9

Rethinking Criminal Consequences for Drivers Who Kill

10

Changing Lanes

11

PREVIEW: Sean Duffy's Great American Road Grift

12

Taking the Transportation Fight to Congress from NY-7

13

A Physical Education with Casey Johnston

14

Streets for Play, Streets for Freedom

15

A Doctor's View of Traffic Violence

16

PREVIEW: Let's Get Political

17

Tony Kushner on The Pushcart War

18

America's Hidden Desire to Live Car-Free

19

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

20

Planning Livable Downtowns with Brent Toderian

21

Superbowl Roundup with Ian Chillag

22

PREVIEW: Women Changing Cities with Melissa and Chris Bruntlett

23

The Importance of Livable Streets with Bruce Appleyard

24

The Creation of America's Car Culture, Part 2

25

PREVIEW: Hanging Out with Jonathan Maus of Bike Portland

26

Dispatches from Book Tour, Part 2

27

Dispatches from Book Tour

28

The Creation of America's Car Culture

29

PREVIEW: A Talk with Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo

30

Welcome to Life After Cars

31

The War on the War on Cars with Ted Mann

32

Cities for Children with Tim Gill

33

PREVIEW: The Cars of TikTok

34

Political Courage with Brad Lander

35

TEASER: Cars Drive Us Apart, Subway Takes Unite Us

36

Should the Bus Be Free? With Yonah Freemark

37

PREVIEW: We Know What We Read Last Summer

38

BUILDING SOLIDARITY WITH BICYCLES AT VELO-CITY

39

PREVIEW: Are Cyclists Too Mean Online?

40

What Makes a City a Cycling City?

41

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

42

TEASER: Live from Minneapolis!

43

Overcoming the Threat to Black Movement with Charles T. Brown

44

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

45

Putting the Trans in Transit with Katelyn Burns

46

TEASER: Why Fighting Tesla Matters with Ed Niedermeyer

47

Inside the Tesla Takedown Protests

48

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

49

Cars Bad, Tariffs Worse with David Zipper

50

Riding the UK's Cycle Network with Laura Laker

51

Trump v. Congestion Pricing

52

What's Happening with Federal Transportation Dollars?

53

TEASER: Live with City Nerd!

54

Super Bowl Roundup with Rollie Williams and Nicole Conlan

55

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

56

TEASER: The Romance of the Automobile

57

Biden's Transportation Legacy with Dani Simons

58

Congestion Pricing Is Finally Here

59

Cities and Fashion with Derek Guy, The Menswear Guy

60

TEASER: Your Best Things of 2024

61

How Cars Change Us with Tara Goddard

62

Changing Hollywood's Car Culture with Ed Begley Jr.

63

TEASER: Doug Ford and Ontario's War on Bikes

64

Election Extra

65

"Cars are Done" with Adam McKay

66

EXTRA: Cars as a Virus with Hermann Knoflacher

67

TEASER: Winnipeg Bike Mayor Patty Wiens

68

Key to the City with Sara Bronin

69

TEASER: When Athletes Ditch the Car

70

Project 2025 and the Stakes for Transportation

71

What We Did on Our Summer Vacation, featuring Rick Steves

72

TEASER: Voices of Velo-city

73

Listener Origin Stories (Patreon Bonus Re-Release)

74

TEASER: Walking 4,000 Miles with Holden Ringer

75

Vehicular Cycling and John Forester, Part 2

76

Vehicular Cycling and John Forester, Part 1

77

Critical Mass Nairobi with Cyprine Odada

78

Killed by a Traffic Engineer

79

Women's Freedom to Ride

80

Kathy Hochul's Congestion Pricing Flip-Flop Fiasco

81

TEASER: The War on The War on Cars

82

Winter Cycling in Oil Country

83

When Driving Is Not an Option with Anna Zivarts

84

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

85

Tesla Cybertrash with Ed Niedermeyer

86

The Texas Freeway Fight with Megan Kimble

87

Car Insurance is Too Cheap

88

Live from New York with Bernie Wagenblast

89

TEASER: Super Bowl Extra

90

Super Bowl LVIII Roundup

91

Should SUV Ads Be Banned?

92

TEASER: Delivering the Goods with Shawon and Fokhrul

93

The Future of Transportation Has Arrived With Your Pad Thai

94

Fixing America's Car Culture with David Zipper

95

TEASER: Listener Origin Stories

96

TEASER: Hess for the Holidays

97

Road Ecology with Ben Goldfarb

98

What the Hell is Happening In the UK?

99

TEASER: Origin Stories

100

John Bauters, America's Bike Mayor

101

Dark PR with Grant Ennis

102

Unintended Consequences with Steven Johnson

103

TEASER: Celebrating Your Wins!

104

Why Congestion Pricing Matters with Diana Lind

105

TEASER: Coach Balto's Bike Bus Lessons

106

Back to School with the Bike Bus

107

Inclusive Transportation with Veronica O. Davis

108

TEASER: Chaos in the Bike Lane with Aaron Gordon

109

EXTRA: Inside Automotive Journalism with Bob Sorokanich

110

TEASER: Live from New York!

111

Traffication with Paul Donald

112

SPECIAL: Freeway Exit

113

Is It Worth It To Confront Drivers?

114

TEASER: Inside Automotive Journalism with Bob Sorokanich

115

Nick Offerman

116

TEASER: Hollywood and Bikes, Take 2

117

Paved Paradise with Henry Grabar

118

TEASER: Discovering Oil with Amy Westervelt

119

Arrested Mobility with Charles Brown

120

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

121

Why Does Hollywood Hate Bikes?

122

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

123

CONSPIRACY!

124

Feminist City with Leslie Kern

125

TEASER: Super Bowl Roundup

126

The War on Cars Turns 100

127

TEASER: Cars, Consumerism and Climate

128

Car Brain with Dr. Ian Walker

129

The High Cost of Free Parking with Donald Shoup

130

Deconstructing Muscle Car City

131

RERELEASE: There Are No Accidents with Jessie Singer

132

TEASER: What We Knew About Elon

133

Three is the Magic Number with Mike Radenbaugh

134

Muscle Car City: We Are in the Movie

135

TEASER: Deleted Scenes with Dan Savage

136

TEASER: Soccer and Cities with Tesho Akindele

137

Make Love Not Cars with Dan Savage

138

Walking the Walk with Jonathon Stalls

139

Making Milwaukee a Bike City

140

Welcome to Muscle Car City

141

The War on Cars Heats Up

142

Better Living by Bicycle with George Hahn

143

TEASER: 'Shade of Trespass' with Garnette Cadogan

144

All Bodies on Bikes with Marley Blonsky

145

TEASER: Tech Won't Save Transportation with Paris Marx

146

Distracted to Death

147

Tesla is a Fraud with Ed Niedermeyer

148

How to Save a Planet with Kendra Pierre-Louis

149

Two Wheels Good with Jody Rosen

150

Infiltrating the Auto Show II

151

They Paved r/place and Put Up a Parking Lot

152

The Pedestrian

153

Pain at the Pump

154

SPECIAL: Ghost Train

155

TEASER: The Godfathers of Disinformation

156

Vapor Bowl Tailgate Party with Amy Westervelt

157

TEASER: Jessie Singer on the Problem with Public Service Campaigns

158

There Are No Accidents with Jessie Singer

159

What Uber Hath Wrought [Rerelease]

160

The End of Uber with Cory Doctorow

161

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

162

311 is a Joke with Alex Pareene

163

TEASER: Cars as a Virus with Hermann Knoflacher

164

Curbing Traffic with Melissa and Chris Bruntlett

165

Smells Like Teen Climate Anxiety

166

Live in New York with Choire Sicha

167

Not Just Bikes with Jason Slaughter

168

Third Anniversary Mailbag

169

TEASER: Hashtag Ban Cars With Michael Hobbes

170

You're Wrong About Bikes with Michael Hobbes

171

Lab Meat and Electric Cars with Alicia Kennedy

172

Return of the Vermonter

173

The E-Bike Radicalization of Jessica Valenti

174

SUMMER SPECIAL: Meet Mr. Barricade

175

SUMMER SPECIAL: Being Gary Fisher, the Interview

176

TEASER: Going Viral With Tom Flood

177

A Word From Our Listeners

178

TEASER: Way Too Many Tech Bros

179

God Help Us, It's Really Infrastructure Week

180

The One Where They Go Back to the Studio

181

TEASER: Building LEGO Cities with Sean Kenney

182

Where are the Bike Lanes In Lego City?

183

TEASER: Meet Mr. Barricade

184

The Driver

185

TEASER: The Miracle Pill with Peter Walker

186

The Emperor's New Tunnel

187

It's Finally Infrastructure Week

188

TEASER: Lessons from Copenhagen with Mikael Colville-Andersen

189

Jamelle Bouie Has Seen the Future of Transportation

190

The Power of E-Bikes with Congressman Earl Blumenauer

191

Housing for People, Not Cars

192

Episode LVIII

193

Test Driving the 2021 Cadillac Escalade with Andrew Hawkins

194

Humane Streets with Anil Dash

195

Mayor Pete at the Drive-Thru

196

The French Connection

197

Cars and the Law with Greg Shill

198

Honk If You Loved 2020

199

Getting the Car Out of Carbon Emissions

200

America's Love Affair With Cars

201

Winning the War on Cars in Rural America

202

Right of Way

203

Policing the Open Road [Rerelease]

204

Vehicles as Weapons

205

Crash Course with Woodrow Phoenix

206

StreetRidersNYC

207

Democracy in the Streets

208

Victory?

209

"Driving While Black" with Gretchen Sorin

210

TEASER: PODAPALOOZA for COVID-19 Relief

211

It's Zero Percent About Transportation with Alex Brook Lynn

212

Cars, Climate and Cities with Bill McKibben

213

Field Dispatches from Four Continents

214

Riding Out the Pandemic

215

On the Bus with Pat Kiernan and Jamie Stelter

216

Finnish Lessons

217

Live in Denver!

218

Suburbans in the City

219

Department of Bikeland Security

220

WCAR Drive Time Radio

221

Kara Swisher Says Car Ownership is Finished

222

You Get a Car!

223

The Automotive Police State

224

What Uber Hath Wrought

225

The Problem With Public Meetings, Part 2

226

The Problem with Public Meetings, Part 1

227

Dying for Change

228

Found in Translation: TWOC Goes to Japan

229

Barcelona's Superblocks with David Roberts of Vox.

230

Adam Conover Ruins The War On Cars

231

The War On Cars Meets Car Talk - The Full Interview

232

WCAR - Easy Listening, Tough Questions

233

Self-Driving Kids

234

Your Car Is Your Castle

235

Breaking the Law

236

Infiltrating the Auto Show

237

Collateral Damage: Theresa's Story

238

Can the Millennials Win the War on Cars?

239

The War on Cars Meets Car Talk

240

Making the Bus Sexy Again

241

Propaganda Blitz

242

WCAR Talk Radio

243

Whoops! The Liberal Blind Spot for Cars

244

Cars Versus Guns

245

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

246

Nice Legs, Dude

247

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

248

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

249

Cars and the Culture Wars

250

Mayors: The Good, the Bad and Bill de Blasio

251

Attack of the Robocars!

252

Why the World Needs The War on Cars