""Cars ruin everything." That's the bold opening line of Life After Cars, the new book by celebrated transportation media figures Sarah Goodyear, Doug Gordon, and Aaron Naparstek. The writers make a case for that initial assertion, detailing the various ways cars-or, more specifically, car culture as we currently know it-ruin childhoods, destroy wildlife, perpetuate societal injustices, and kill people, to name a few particularly negative effects."
""We did not want to make a super wonky podcast," Goodyear told the Mercury during a recent Zoom conversation, which included her co-author Gordon. "We wanted to make a podcast that would get these issues out into the world to show people how connected everything is, and how transportation is connected to everything else. If there's a problem that you're interested in, cars probably have something to do with that problem in one way or another.""
Car culture damages childhoods, destroys wildlife, perpetuates social injustices, and causes fatalities across communities. A vision of life after cars proposes alternatives that prioritize human thriving in less car-dependent urban environments. A transportation-focused media project aims to make complex transportation issues accessible without excessive technical detail, emphasizing how transportation connects to many societal problems. The 'War on Cars' slogan is reclaimed to challenge fear-based narratives about policies that reduce car centrality and to advocate reducing car dominance in cities worldwide.
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