311 is a Joke with Alex Pareene
The War on Cars
The War on Cars, LLC
4.9 • 937 Ratings
🗓️ 11 January 2022
⏱️ 34 minutes
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Summary
Alex Pareene, a contributing editor to The New Republic and the author of The AP (Alex Pareene) Newsletter, joins the podcast to talk about his recent run of stories on cars, parking and the competition for scarce space on city streets. We discuss 311 — the non-emergency phone number for accessing municipal services — and what it tells us about how government works (or doesn't work). What message are police sending when they fail to enforce illegal parking? As far as driving is concerned, does anything go? And how does Elon Musk's insistence on beta-testing Full Self-Driving on public streets relate to it all?
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Listen to The Politics of Everything.
"The Lawlessness that Cops Ignore." (The Atlantic)
"Losing a Streetfight to Elon Musk." (The AP)
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| 0:00.0 | It's Aaron here and let me be honest with you for a minute. You generally shouldn't be taking fashion advice from me. |
| 0:09.2 | For the most part, I'm not very well dressed. It's not my thing. There is one exception however. |
| 0:15.0 | When it's raining outside and I'm walking the dog or I'm picking up some groceries on my bicycle. |
| 0:21.0 | I wear a cleverhood classic rain cape and I look good. How do I |
| 0:27.8 | know I look good? Because people actually stop me on the street and they say |
| 0:31.4 | hey it's a cool rain cape. |
| 0:33.6 | Where'd you get it? |
| 0:34.7 | True story. |
| 0:35.8 | And you know what I tell them? |
| 0:37.0 | I say, go to cleverhood.com slash war on cars. |
| 0:41.0 | When you check out, enter coupon code one less car. You'll get 20% off in the |
| 0:46.8 | Cleverhood store. Now through the end of February, and for every dollar you spend, |
| 0:51.5 | Cleverhood donates five cents to advocacy groups |
| 0:54.5 | of working to create safer, more livable, and equitable streets. |
| 0:58.7 | Again, that's Cleverhood.com slash War on Cars cars coupon code one less car. This is the war on cars. I'm Aaron Napaestack and with me are my co-host Doug Gordon and Sarah Goodyear. |
| 1:28.0 | Hey, hello there. We are very excited today to have a fourth person in the studio with us. |
| 1:33.8 | Alex Perrine, welcome to the War on Cars. |
| 1:36.3 | Thank you so much. |
| 1:37.7 | Alex is a contributing editor to the New Republic. |
| 1:40.9 | He's co-host of the podcast the politics of everything he also has a fantastic |
| 1:46.7 | newsletter which is called the AP and his work has appeared in the Atlantic, |
| 1:53.7 | zillions of other venues, and he also was an editor at Gocker |
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