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Cartoon Tuesday: GM Imitates WALL-E With La-Z-Boy on Wheels
By Matthew Roth |
GM has seen the future, and it looks like a B-n-L Hover Chair. If you held out any hope that billions in taxpayer bailout money and Barack Obama’s dismissal of Rick Wagoner would mark the end of General Motors’ bad plans, today was a wake-up call. GM’s solution for the future of transportation is — […]
Cartoon Tuesday: Captain Car-Free
By Brad Aaron |
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: Energy Independence
By Brad Aaron |
This ‘toon seemed appropriate on a day when oil prices set another record and presidential candidate John McCain called on Congress to suspend the federal gasoline tax (which would also hasten the depletion of the U.S. Highway Trust Fund, currently expected to be out of money next year). Wonder if these guys drink Miller…
Cartoon Tuesday: Pricing Post-Mortem Edition
By Jason Varone |
Also particularly germane today is this CARtoon by Andy Singer, the first of what we plan to make a regular series on Streetsblog. Singer is a Minnesota-based cartoonist known in the livable streets universe for skewering car culture in strips like this one.
Cartoon Tuesday Double Feature: Bike Tolls and Bridge Trolls
By Ian Lockwood |
Editor’s note: With bike tolls being a hot topic recently, Streetsblog cartoonist, transportation engineer, and Loeb Fellow Ian Lockwood was inspired to submit two items for this installment of Cartoon Tuesday. Ian writes of the second toon: I kept thinking about the bike toll issue and came up with this cartoon. It’s strange how motorists […]
Cartoon Tuesday: “Holiday”
By Brad Aaron |
Rex Babin/Sacramento Bee