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Year In Review 2021: Now For the Good News
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This year was not a good one for big wins. But it may go down in history as a critical turning point for our national transportation future.
Year In Review 2021: The Bad News
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It's time for our year-in-review. Let's get the bad news out of the way first.
A Round and a Roundy: Dead Men Tell No Tales … in Support of Bike Lanes
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Our national treasure cartoonist has noticed that whenever a group of people in a neighborhood expresses support for a bike lane, there's always a revanchist force that claims to have "asked around" and discovered that no one, in fact, wants that bike lane. Here's his take.
Wisconsin Car Attack is an Example of Our Failure to Prevent Cars Being Used as Weapons
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Policy, culture, and environment create conditions that all too often permit such crimes — and by failing to address those conditions, advocates argue, we practically ensure that such atrocities will continue to happen.
Dear Joe: The Electric Hummer is Not the Future
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An open letter to the American president that his constant cheerleading for electric mega-cars is not only a bad look, but bad policy.
Three More #ToxicCarAds That Didn’t Quite Make the Cut
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We're days away from the final battle in our quest to find America's Most Toxic Car Ad...but that doesn't mean the submissions ever stopped rolling in. Let's take a look at three of the worst.
America’s Most Toxic Car Ads Semi-Finals: Cadillac vs. Dodge
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We're finishing out the semi-finals with another battle of the bad dads — and this one's a doozy.
America’s Most Toxic Car Ads Semi-Finals: Dodge vs. Chevy
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We're down to the worst of the worst in our quest to find America's most toxic car ad — and it's time to talk about what to do about it.
America’s Most Toxic Car Ads: Infiniti vs. Cadillac
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When most people think about "family values," they don't usually think about violent driver aggression — unless they've bought into American car culture, that is.
HOT TAKES: Four Views on Why Electric Trucks Won’t Save Us
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We are being sold a bill of goods, four authors argue.
America’s Most Toxic Car Ads: Dodge Truancy v. Mercedes Benz E-Class
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Toxic car ads are truly timeless...and that's not a good thing.
Birmingham (England) Puts Birmingham (Alabama) to Shame
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Birmingham grabbed headlines this week for its visionary new transport plan that will restrict car travel and expand sustainable transportation access throughout every inch of the city. Unfortunately, not our Birmingham.
But not that Birmingham.