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Thursday’s Headlines: Car Culture Myth-Making Edition
We found ourself appalled at a publishing company's forthcoming hagiography of car culture. Plus other news.
September 15, 2022
NYC Transforms Site of Award-Winning Outdoor Dining Space Into Street Parking
When Mayor Eric Adams grabbed a sledgehammer and knocked down an unused outdoor dining structure in Koreatown last week, his administration suggested that not all of these hard-won, carless public spaces would revert back to parking.
August 25, 2022
To Fix Inflation And Climate Change, Get Americans out of Cars
Our gas-guzzling rides are tanking our personal finances and municipal budgets as well as dooming the planet.
August 19, 2022
Mayor Razes Abandoned Outdoor Dining Structures; Advocates Want That Space for People, Not Cars
Lots of swagger, but not much of a plan.
August 18, 2022
The Brake Podcast: What Would the ‘Post-Automobility’ Future Look Like?
Here's part two of our discussion with authors Robert Braun and Richard Randell about why automobility isn't really about cars at all — and how it's become what they call a "totalitarian system" that touches virtually every part of our lives.
August 11, 2022
This Artificial Intelligence Bot is Designing Better Streets Than Some Engineers
Leave it to a Brooklyn artist to break through Americans' willful inability to imagine how their communities could be designed around people instead of automobiles.
July 28, 2022
THE BRAKE: Why ‘Automobility’ Is About So Much More Than Automobiles
Is car culture really just about vehicles, roads, motorists and violent commercials on TV, or is it is a political system as deeply entrenched in cultures around the world? Yes. Yes it is.
July 27, 2022
ABOUT TIME: YouTube Car Enthusiast Goes on Anti-Auto Rant
A new video about the dangers of car dependency by a popular automotive vlogger is prompting a conversation about how people who love cars can help dismantle a transportation system that privileges autos.
July 26, 2022
Two Queens Pols Want City to Eliminate the Jamaica Busways
Meanwhile, a bus rider says, “Drivers don’t follow the rules! They’re constantly standing in no standing zones, which causes congestion. It's important that the city prioritizes those who take public transit.”
July 18, 2022
CRASH IN FLATIRON: Vehicle-Into-Building Crashes 40% Higher Than Previously Thought
U.S. drivers ram their cars into buildings about 100 times every single day, according to revised new estimates – and while that's 40 more daily collisions than previously thought, some experts suspect it may still be an undercount.
June 21, 2022
