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Friday Video: The Best Super Bowl Ad You’ll Never See
Every February, Automakers spend millions to get Americans into expensive cars they can't afford. What if we could do the same to get them onto a bike seat?
February 20, 2025
Friday Video: Why Bad Drivers Are Everywhere
U.S. roads all but guarantee that U.S. drivers will do dangerous things. But how did we get here — and how do we fix it?
January 23, 2025
OPINION: Vision Zero Begins with Drivers Simply Sharing the Road
No one person or mode of transportation has monopolistic rights to the road. But drivers think they do.
Brandon Black
January 5, 2025
Opinion: Yes, the GDP Rises When We Drive More. But That Isn’t A Good Thing.
Expensive hospital stays after car crashes, swelling healthcare spending on sedentary lifestyle diseases, and constant fuel consumption when residents have no choice but driving are all "good" for the national bottom line. But are they good for us?
Andy Boenau
November 12, 2024
‘Rage Against the Machine’: The Daily Toll of Cars in 18 Images
In this excerpt from "The Architecture of Urbanity: Designing for Nature, Culture, and Joy," author Vishaan Chakrabarti gives a powerful visual breakdown of how car dependency impacts our places.
Vishaan Chakrabarti
October 21, 2024
EVs — What Are They Good For?
A new paper argues that policymakers need to totally rethink their subsidy regime.
October 15, 2024
Video: Groucho Marx and the ‘Love Affair’ with the Car
Our supposed affection for the automobile isn't a spontaneous love-at-first-sight affair, but a decades-long brainwashing.
October 10, 2024
Opinion: Our Loneliness Epidemic Reveals America’s Failed Urban Planning
"As we consider the multitude of ways to address our nation’s loneliness crisis, we must have serious conversations about how we can better shape our built environment to enable extended networks of care."
Abbey Seitz
October 10, 2024
How to Defeat Car Culture in America’s Deadliest City for Pedestrians
"How do you market hundreds of miles of ‘road diets’ in the car capital of the nation?"
Josh Vredevoogd
October 8, 2024
Opinion: How to Make Half the Country Oppose Safe Streets
Framing Vision Zero as pro-Democrat and anti-Republican alienates potential allies.
Andy Boenau
September 19, 2024
