Aaron Naparstek

He commuted from where to where? Which neighborhoods?

Episode prep.

Dodge CEO Tim Kuniskis tries to sell electric muscle cars the ghosts of the Dodge Brothers.

Just dropped a bonus episode for our Patreon subscribers! "Dodge's 'Deeply Weird' Pitch for Electric Muscle Cars" with Ed Niedermeyer @niedermeyer.io. Enlist today!
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looking forward to listening to this

I love that just as I started listening to this, I passed a Cybertruck on the back of a tow truck. Just perfect timing.

Wow!

in some sense the origin story of my city as it currently exists is a freeway revolt, the first successful one in the US. that people are still having to fight these fights sixty years later is so f'in' grim.

You may have thought we had learned some lessons about building mega highways through communities back in the 20th century, but...Megan Kimble's fantastic new book sheds light on the mistakes we are still making, and the fight to stop them.

Book cover for CITY LIMITS: Infrastructure, Inequality, and the Future of America's Highways. Aerial view of highway overpasses and exchanges.

New episode! "The Texas Freeway Fight with Megan Kimble." In her new book, Kimble tells the stories of the communities in the path of TxDOT’s bulldozers and the brave Texans fighting to save their homes, neighborhoods, and cities from a seemingly implacable foe.

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Man with goatee in winter jacket on snowy street wearing yellow hat.

Our friend, Councilor Michael Janz wearing a The War on Cars “toque” on CTV Edmonton is the best thing we’ve seen. That’s some real political courage right there.

Ariel view of an intersection, with areas of the street organically plowed by cars and snowy areas revealing the areas cars don't need. The snow creates new boundaries for the curb, a "sneckdown" if you will. Text is overlayed on the image that imagines what the new areas could be, like a bike lane, public plaza, pedestrian refuge

"Sneckdown" has been added to the Urbanism+ feed.

You're up Wikipedia:

"A sneckdown (or snowy neckdown) is a temporary curb extension caused by snowfall, where snow has built up in the road but not been flattened by traffic, effectively reshaping the curb."

Term courtesy of @naparstek.bsky.social

New episode! Just like cigarette advertising, let's ban SUV ads...

...and then let's ban SUVs.

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This was excellent from @thewaroncars.bsky.social . Just really eye-opening. Episode is free (I’m a Patreon subscriber and its totally worth it but you don’t need to be for this one)

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Good point

A cost-effective, tough, scaleable, inadvertently-eco-friendly, urban car commuting alternative is in use today: the “delivery guy electric bike.”

Shawon and Baruch Herzfeld standing in front of PopWheels headquarters last May.

NEW EPISODE: The Future of Transportation Has Arrived With Your Pad Thai.

What if there is a high-tech urban mobility revolution happening right under our noses, but we can’t see it because the people who are delivering it to our city are mostly invisible to us?

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A banger of an episode produced and reported by my co-host @naparstek.bsky.social. Take a listen!

This episode, reported and produced by @naparstek.bsky.social, is so much fun. A real love letter to the endless ingenuity and generosity of New York City...that dreamy old concrete jungle.

This is probably not correct. Prof. Peter Norton found that the horse dung and corpses mythology mostly appeared much later, after World War II, as a kind of retroactive justification for why cities needed to be filled with cars. The advent of the automobile mostly happened for other reasons.

Really interesting episode.

if u do not know steven johnson he has written several books but my favorite is still the one where he deconstructs the gameplay of a quest in legend of zelda ocarina of time

Gridlocked Midtown Manhattan street.

Congestion pricing is coming to NYC and Diana Lind of the Penn Institute for Urban Research believes it's a paradigm-shifting moment. “The next 20 years,” she writes, “will be the beginning of the end of the private car in cities.” We discuss in the new episode: thewaroncars.org/2023/09/19/1...

The Agony of the School Car Line It’s crazy-making and deeply inefficient.

"I understand why driving is the default. Most American adults hop in the car to go to work anyway, and figure they can swing by the school. But the more parents who choose this option, the worse it works."

I'm not crying, you're crying

Screenshot of ken from street fighter 2 kicking a car that has its top half broken off with glass flying off it

my first act as president would be to make pedestrians and cyclists have priority and all cars have to stop immediately or face impoundment. repeat violators will have their car destroyed in a public spectacle like in street fighter II
#walkable

Square purple sticker with orange heart with the words "Make Love Not Cars" in it. Stuck on a lamppost with other stickers on a city street.

"Make Love Not Cars" sticker spotting.

An enormous fan of Veronica Davis & her work. DC's loss was Houston's gain, for sure.

Really good episode. I’m not much of a biker, but I listened to this ep while out for a walk in Brooklyn this evening, and as I was walking I couldn’t help but notice just how many of these moped-like devices were in the bike lanes all around my residential neighborhood at 11 pm on a weeknight