by StreetsblogUSA
Covering the movement to end car dependency in the United States, one interview at a time
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March 25, 2025
<p class="MsoNormal">How does our popular media normalize dangerous behavior on our roads — and does it even help create it? </p> <p class="MsoNormal">Today on The Brake, we're talking about the role of culture in driving our road violence crisis, including car ads that make reckless driving seem like it never has deadly consequences, action movies, video games, and even social media trends. And my guest today, documentarian and journalist Myron Levin, wrapped all of that into a really fascinating, full length documentary that you can <a href= "https://usa.streetsblog.org/2025/03/07/friday-video-how-violent-media-makes-road-violence-worse">watch for free right now.</a></p>
March 11, 2025
<p class="MsoNormal">Decades of research prove that highways tear apart the physical fabric of our cities, segregating neighborhoods by race and income and making it harder for anyone outside a car to access the jobs, services and communities they rely on — at least if those things happen to be located on the other side of a dangerous road.</p> <p class="MsoNormal">But what impact do highways have on the invisible social fabric of our places — and does the internet provide a bridge between these disconnected communities, or only a digital mirror of the sharp divides that highways draw between our neighborhoods? <br /> <br /> Today on the Brake, we’re talking to data science researcher Luca Maria Aiello from IT University of Copenhagen, who found a fascinating way to <a href= "https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2408937122">quantify</a> exactly how much downtown highways disconnect our social networks, in addition to our sidewalk, bike lane and transit networks. And along the way, we discuss what those divisions cost us in social mobility, democratic cohesion, and real dollars and cents. </p>
February 25, 2025
<p>Cities across America have been trying — and mostly failing — to achieve Vision Zero for more than a decade. But is it really time to trade the goal of ending road deaths and serious injuries for the aim of reducing them 30 percent by 2030? And would we be better positioned to eliminate the other 70 percent of fatalities if we made that strategic shift, or not? <br /> <br /> Today on the Brake, we sit down with the presdient of the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety, David Harkey, to talk about his organization's <a href= "https://www.iihs.org/news/detail/as-vision-zero-hopes-fade-a-5-year-goal-can-help-us-reset"> pivot</a> to push for a five-year full-court press on traffic violence, and why he doesn't believe that means giving up on ending road deaths overall. And along the way, Kea presses him to examine what strategies would really rise to the surface if we set a tighter time horizon for more modest road safety gains, and why we have to sweat our strategy when it comes to saving lives. </p>
The War on Cars, LLC
Not Just Bikes
Strong Towns
Strong Towns
The Overhead Wire
Climate Town
John Simmerman
The Lawfare Institute
WNYC Studios
David Roberts
Politix
The Atlantic
CAFE
BikeTalk
Nima Shirazi and Adam Johnson
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