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The Parking Reform Network Comes of Age
“We’re all here because when we look at a new surface parking lot, or see a lot being dug up for an apartment’s underground garage, we understand these are just the surface expressions of a sinister force." -Parking Reform Network founder Tony Jordan, via Bike Portland's Jonathan Maus
October 21, 2021
New ‘Induced Demand’ Calculator Shows Exactly How Much Driving Your City’s Highway Expansion Will Encourage
A new calculator shows the real impacts of proposed highway expansions in their communities — and the experts behind the project hope that transportation agencies will someday be required to use it, too.
October 20, 2021
America’s Most Toxic Car Ads: Dodge Truancy v. Mercedes Benz E-Class
Toxic car ads are truly timeless...and that's not a good thing.
October 15, 2021
America’s Most Toxic Car Ads: Aggressively American Edition
We're finishing off our first round of competition with two ads that give a salute to America...or at least one very specific, aggressively toxic version of it.
October 5, 2021
Study: What’s Behind Partisan Splits Over Transport Reform?
The majority of Americans support transportation reform that would reduce our national dependence on automobiles — but better messaging may be needed to persuade the rest, a new study suggests.
October 4, 2021
America’s Most Toxic Car Ads: ‘Autonomous’ Atrocities
Driverless cars do not exist. But we sure do have a lot of commercials for them!
September 27, 2021
What Would Our Cities Look Like If AVs Ruled the Roads?
Autonomous vehicles could unleash a second wave of suburban sprawl that makes cities inhospitable to people outside cars in new ways — unless governments adopt policies to soften their impact now, a new study argues.
September 24, 2021
America’s Most Toxic Car Ads: Child Endangerment Edition
In a rational world, a product that's routinely involved in the deaths and serious injuries of thousands of children every year would be immediately pulled from the market...or at least, maybe kids wouldn't be featured in hundreds of ads.
September 22, 2021
America’s Most Toxic Car Ads: A Toxic Masculinity Twofer
The all-powerful truck nut lobby wants you to believe that the kind of car you drive can make you sexier and less likely to belt out Shania Twain with your macho friends.
September 14, 2021
America’s Most Toxic Car Ads: Get Out of Dodge
We had a lot of repeat offenders in our pool of submissions for this contest, but seemingly none was quite so offensive as this automaker, which constituted roughly a quarter of the haul.
And if you know anything about car ads, can probably guess we're talking about Dodge.
September 10, 2021
