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Cartoon Tuesday: Paint the Pavement… on the Elevated Highway

By Ben Fried | Oct 13, 2009 | 1 Comment

This project takes the spirit of intersection repair to new heights. You’re looking at the Elevado Costa e Silva, a two-mile stretch of 1970s-vintage elevated highway in the middle of gridlocked Sao Paulo, Brazil. It’s known informally as the minhocão ("giant worm"), and according to local blog Inside Sao Paulo, a project to remove the […]

Cartoon Tuesday: Captain Car-Free

By Brad Aaron | Sep 22, 2009 | 22 Comments

Today is World Carfree Day, and though we somehow let it slip by us, NotionsCapital reappropriated this classic comic to promote events down DC way. They’re not super heroes per se, but in the livable streets universe, David Byrne, Janette Sadik-Khan and Paul Steely White are about as close as they come. You can catch […]

Cartoon Tuesday: Beware of the Ouchies

By Ben Fried | May 12, 2009 | 4 Comments

After reading about a new Pew Poll that found 88 percent of Americans believe they can’t live without a car, I couldn’t help thinking of this cartoon from John Akre — who also gave us Cars for Hats. Car dependence has never looked so terrifying.

Cartoon Tuesday: Park-N-Abandon

By Brad Aaron | May 5, 2009 | No Comments

Today’s toon combo comes to us via the Times’ By Design blog, where Allison Arieff has posted a paean to Steven M. Johnson, an inventor, author, cartoonist and former urban planner described by Arieff as "a sort of R. Crumb meets R. Buckminster Fuller." Many of Johnson’s "whimsical musings" are transportation related, and at least […]

Cartoon Tuesday: Jump the Gates or Dump the Stooges?

By Brad Aaron | Apr 28, 2009 | 2 Comments

From the cutting-off-one’s-nose-to-spite-one’s-face department comes this nonetheless impressive song and video excoriating the MTA (a.k.a. "Money-Taking Assholes") and calling on transit riders to "start jumping the gates." But there’s more to the message than misguided MTA bashing, as "the fuck-ups in Albany" — Ruben Diaz, Sr., Pedro Espada and Carl Kruger, specifically — get their […]

Cartoon Tuesday: Don’t Walk(?)

By Brad Aaron | Apr 21, 2009 | 2 Comments

If you’re in need of a little comic relief today, try this seemingly subversive pro-jaywalking message from the Muppets.

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