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Why Is This Happening? The Chris Hayes Podcast

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🗓️ 29 January 2019

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

*We have a new live show on the calendar! Listen for details.* If you care about battling climate change, then you might want to pay attention to the New York City subway system. We know there’s an urgent need to cut our carbon emissions and a big part of that is going to be transportation. We need to radically reimagine the way we get around in the coming years because we cannot continue to have an economy and a commute system that revolves around cars, particularly cars that are dependent on fossil fuels. In that way, the NYC subway system is a marvel - it’s a massive and democratic public good that nearly everyone relies on. It’s also in the midst of a slow motion crisis after decades of neglect and technological stasis. So if we want to make the subway a vision for the country, then the country needs to learn from the missteps of the New York subway - and transportation reporter Aaron Gordon has some ideas on where to start. Email us at [email protected] Tweet using #WITHpod Read more at nbcnews.com/whyisthishappening RELATED: Signal Problems Social Infrastructure Week with Eric Klinenberg (released Oct 23) Medicare for All with Abdul El-Sayed (released Sept 25)

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0:00.0	A realization I came to recently is that the New York City subway in the past 20 to 30
0:05.4	years has changed from being the best subway system in America to the worst big city subway
0:10.3	system in the world.
0:12.0	Almost nothing in that change is about anything the subway is doing different.
0:16.3	It's mostly a problem of stasis.
0:18.2	It's mostly a problem of them not changing as every other system gets better.
0:25.8	Hello and welcome to Wise is happening with me, your host Chris Hayes.
0:29.2	It is a very very very very exciting day here in with podland because we have an announcement
0:35.3	announcement.
0:36.7	So we've talked to you about live with pod how much we enjoy doing them.
0:40.8	We have done one with Tana Hossie Coates here in New York City.
0:43.6	We asked you guys if you were interested in more.
0:46.3	You said yes.
0:47.6	We want to I'm going to saying this now before I get to the announcement.
0:52.0	We want to make this a thing that we do and we want to make it a thing that we do out
0:55.5	around the country traveling around and going out.
0:57.6	I promise you that is our goal.
1:00.6	We are trying to get this well oiled and streamlined before we take it on the road.
1:06.3	So this live wise is happening is also happening in New York City Sunday, February 24th at 6 p.m.
1:13.6	at the grammar see theater in New York.
1:15.9	I guess is going to be Stacey Abrams.
1:19.4	Stacey Abrams of course is the Georgia state legislator who ran for governor in 2018 put
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