A Word From Our Listeners
The War on Cars
The War on Cars, LLC
4.9 • 937 Ratings
🗓️ 28 July 2021
⏱️ 19 minutes
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Summary
We held our very first War on Cars Meetup in Brooklyn a few weekends ago. We actually started planning this event almost two years ago but, you know... a global pandemic kind of got in the way. After so many months of relative social isolation it was great to gather in person, see old friends, meet new friends, and talk with so many of our passionate, dedicated listeners. Part of what was special about the Meetup was its location. Not very long ago, if you had tried to host a social gathering in the middle of Vanderbilt Avenue, you'd have gotten squashed by a speeding car. In 2006, New York City's Dept. of Transportation experimented with its very first "road diet" on Vanderbilt Ave. Today, it's one of New York City's most successful car-free open streets. It's a place to experience how nice it can be when streets are designed and managed as community spaces rather than traffic sewers.
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SHOW NOTES:
Vanderbilt Avenue: Open Streets, Good Vibes
Eyes on the Street: A Refuge on Vanderbilt (Streetsblog)
How New Yorkers Want to Change the Streetscape for Good (New York Times)
Statistics on how the Vanderbilt Avenue "road diet" is working (New York City Dept. of Transportation)
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| 0:00.0 | We here at the War on Cars love a lot of things about Cleverhood's rain gear. |
| 0:05.0 | It keeps you dry on a bike, it keeps you dry when you're walking, and it looks great in the process. |
| 0:10.0 | But the people at Cleverhood aren't satisfied with just making stylish, highly functional |
| 0:14.5 | rain gear. They are also focused on doing it in a responsible and sustainable way. |
| 0:18.9 | They support environmentally friendly manufacturing, fair labor practices, and small suppliers. |
| 0:24.6 | And for every Rover Cape they sell, |
| 0:26.5 | Cleverhood donates 5% of revenue to local advocacy groups working to create safer, |
| 0:31.4 | more livable, and equitable streets in cities around the U.S. |
| 0:35.0 | For 20% off on a rover cape and lots of other great products, go to cleverhood.com |
| 0:40.0 | slash war on cars and enter coupon code, war on cars when you check out. |
| 0:44.3 | Again, that's cleverhood.com slash war on Welcome to the War on Cars. We held our first War on Cars meet-up on car-free Vanderbilt Avenue in Brooklyn a couple |
| 1:07.5 | weekends ago. |
| 1:09.0 | It was a lot of fun. |
| 1:10.5 | Forty, maybe fifty people showed up. |
| 1:12.5 | We put out an icy cooler full of cold drinks. |
| 1:15.2 | We sold some t-shirts and some stickers. |
| 1:17.5 | We saw old friends, and we met lots of new people too. |
| 1:21.0 | One listener traveled from as far away as Raleigh, North Carolina, another from |
| 1:25.2 | Philadelphia. One guy even came all the way down from the Bronx. The meetup was great. We really enjoyed it. We'll do more. Part of what made this particular event special was the location itself. |
| 1:39.0 | If you tried to do a meet-up in the a truck. Not so long ago, |
| 1:45.0 | not so long ago, Vanderbilt Ave was a chaotic, |
| 1:51.0 | four-lane mini-high mini highway designed to move cars and trucks as quickly as possible. |
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