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Friday Video: Welcome to the ‘War on Cars’

Here's a pithy, witty, concise synopsis of why cars suck from the makers of America's best-loved podcast.

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Sarah Goodyear, Aaron Naparstek and Doug Gordon host “The War on Cars.”

If you didn't know it — there's a war on cars.

You see it on Fox News. You see it on local TV. You hear it from politicians.

But the fact is: the car is having a war on us.

Thankfully, Streetsblog NYC Founder Aaron Naparstek, plus activists Doug Gordon and Sarah Goodyear founded "The War on Cars" podcast — which is now adding in video. Here's the trio's first salvo — a pithy, witty, concise synopsis of why cars suck:

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