The Onion

Congestion

Friday Funny: The Onion Considers the Pros and Cons of Congestion Pricing

The satirical news website The Onion must have seen the big news out of New York this week.

March 1, 2019 - The Onion

Kids on the Street

Friday Funny: Pity the Fool Who Doesn't Yield to a Law-Abiding Pedestrian

A satirical article published by The Onion tells a familiar tale.

February 15, 2019 - The Onion

Coastal City

Friday Funny: The Onion Brings Climate Change Close to Home

The Onion's satirical news skills are put to use in canvassing public opinion about climate change.

February 1, 2019 - The Onion

Bike Infrastructure

Friday Funny: The Onion Eviscerates Bike Planning

More scathing satire from The Onion, which continues a long history of dissecting the priorities of society as reflected in the built environment and the public realm.

December 7, 2018 - The Onion

New York Subway

Friday Funny: The Onion Says the Subway Is Reserved for Amazon Employees Now

A totally fake news story, intended to satirize, not provide any factual information, makes fun of how much New York City's political leadership gave to Amazon to make sure HQ2 would call the Big Apple home.

November 16, 2018 - The Onion

Beach

Friday Funny: Cartographers Are Hiding an Idyllic Continent

The rest of the world would only spoil it for the mapmakers.

September 14, 2018 - The Onion

Crowded Subway Platform

Next Train ETA: Never

The Onion feels the pain of everyone who takes the train.

September 7, 2018 - The Onion

Electric Car

Friday Funny: Tesla Invents the Greenest Car

The Fake News website The Onion reports a complete fabrication about Elon Musk and Tesla.

August 31, 2018 - The Onion

Roundabout

Friday Funny: Circular Logic in a Roundabout

Satirical website The Onion has noticed something about the American approach to the traffic circle.

August 3, 2018 - The Onion

School Buses

Friday Funny: Tech Genius Realizes His Invention Has Already Been Invented

The Onion burns Elon Musk in a totally fake news story (really) about a bad day for the billionaire.

March 16, 2018 - The Onion

New York Subway Station

Friday Funny: The Onion Imagines a Very New York Moment for the MTA

In this fake, satirical article, The Onion imagines that the MTA has finally had enough complaints about service failures and overcrowding on the New York subway. Vulgarities ensue.

February 16, 2018 - The Onion

Friday Funny: Carless Drivers? Automated Drivers? Self-Driving Drivers?

The Onion is back at it again, this time satirizing society's interest in self-driving cars with a new concept: the carless driver.

February 2, 2018 - The Onion

Bikes

The Onion's Bike Safety Solution: Buy a Car Like a 'Normal Person'

The Onion is probably trolling the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration more than bike riders with this one.

November 17, 2017 - The Onion

Philadelphia Center City

Friday Funny: Philadelphia Is Very, Very Confident About its Amazon Bid

The lengths to which cities have gone, or will go, in their bids to attract the second headquarters for Amazon has produced a cottage industry of media coverage. Satire from The Onion follows that trail to its most explosive of possible ends.

November 17, 2017 - The Onion

Bezos Center for Innovation at the Museum of History and Industry

Friday Funny: The Onion Imagines a Slightly Sympathetic Jeff Bezos

The Onion is satire, so we'll never know if Jeff Bezos felt sorry for any of the cities wasting time and money on a pitch to win Amazon's second headquarters.

October 27, 2017 - The Onion

How's My Driving

Friday Funny: Crass Bumper Sticker Finally Coughs Up its Traffic Data

You know the bumper sticker. It's the one that begins with the words "How's My Driving?" and ends with a 1-800 number.

October 20, 2017 - The Onion

Eating and Driving

Friday Funny: Sarcastic Responses to Honolulu's 'Distracted Walking' Ban

The Onion's always-sardonic "American Voices" feature allows some totally fake people to respond to Honolulu's recent decision to make it illegal to text while crossing the street on foot.

August 4, 2017 - The Onion

Pothole

Friday Funny: Infrastructure Woes Cause National Case of Insomnia

Actually-fake-news site The Onion got a few burns on the world of planning this week. One article satirized the nation's inaction over the state of its infrastructure. The other hit the Brookings Institute where it hurts: the policy recommendations.

July 21, 2017 - The Onion

Hotel California

Friday Funny: The Onion Deconstructs the 'Gig Economy'

Satirical news site The Onion lambastes (in familiar fashion) the gig economy—i.e., the euphemism applied to the side jobs and revenue sources offered by transportation network companies like Uber and short-term rental companies like Airbnb.

June 30, 2017 - The Onion

A private club located in Florida

Friday Funny: Onion Satire Pits Preservationists Against Trump's Childhood Home

A totally fake news story from the fake news site The Onion reports the fake news that the National Trust for Historic Preservation is leading an effort to demolish Donald Trump's boyhood home.

June 2, 2017 - The Onion

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