Can the Millennials Win the War on Cars?

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4.9 • 937 Ratings

🗓️ 3 April 2019

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

A new generation of urban leaders is rising to power and they’re kicking butt and challenging long-standing assumptions about the role of the car in the city. Among them is Corey Johnson, New York City’s new City Council Speaker. At 37 years old, Corey is the first bonafide, avocado toast–eating Millennial to hold citywide elected office. We ride the subway with Corey to learn more about his plans to “break car culture” in the Big Apple. So can Millennials win the War on Cars? What even is a Millennial anyway? Plus, a special round-up of the all-time great historic speeches in The War on Cars.

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Show Notes:

Watch New York City Council Speaker Corey Johnson’s 2019 State of the City Address on Vimeo. Or read a transcript of the speech.

"Why Housing Policy Is Climate Policy," by California State Senator Scott Wiener and Prof. Daniel Kammen.

Vancouver, British Columbia Legislative Assembly Member Bowinn Ma teaches her fellow elected officials about induced demand.

Car-free Oklahoma City Councilor JoBeth Hamon has “resting bicycle face.”

And here are some more exciting, up-and-coming local elected officials: Michelle Wu, Boston; Lisa Bender, Minneapolis; Pete Buttigieg, South Bend; Scott Wiener, San Francisco; Mitra Jalali Nelson, St. Paul; Jason Dozier, Atlanta; Rob Dooling, Washington D.C.; Antonio Reynoso, Brooklyn; Teresa Mosqueda, Seattle; Meghan Sahli-Wells of Culver City is “burning calories, not carbon.”

Check out this Twitter thread for dozens more urban leaders who are fighting and winning The War on Cars. Thanks for all of your suggestions and tips.

The full report that Corey Johnson’s office released along with his speech: “A Case for Municipal Control and a Comprehensive Transportation Vision for the Five Boroughs.”

And a very special thanks to Steve Ross for his impressions of FDR, JFK and Reagan. You can find more of Steve’s work on YouTube.

Follow us on Twitter: @TheWarOnCars. Aaron Naparstek @Naparstek, Sarah Goodyear @buttermilk1, Doug Gordon @brooklynspoke. Our show is produced and edited by Curtis Fox Productions @curtisfox.

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Transcript

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0:00.0	All right, I'm dying to hear what you've got for us, Aaron.
0:04.0	It's been a lot of buildup for this.
0:07.0	Okay, so I've compiled a medley of great historic speeches in the war on cars.
0:13.6	Okay.
0:14.1	See if you can guess who this is.
0:17.6	So first of all, let me assert my firm belief that the only thing we have to fear is the car itself
0:29.8	Yes, FDR's famous for freedoms. Freedom from getting hit by a car. Freedom from traffic. Yeah, okay. Yeah, we know that. Classic. That's a classic.
0:41.0	Everyone's taught that in high school.
0:42.6	Too easy.
0:43.6	All right, this one might be harder.
0:45.1	And so my fellow Americans ask not what a car can do for you. Ask what you can do to reduce the need for a car.
1:00.0	Yep, that was JFK, issuing a clarion call to take on a generational challenge.
1:08.9	I never knew that he sounded so much like FDR.
1:11.3	That's really remarkable.
1:12.3	Yeah, I mean mean if they hadn't
1:14.7	assassinated him he definitely would have pulled us out of the war on cars that's that's
1:18.0	why they killed him yeah you know they knew Mr Gorbachev tear down this urban expressway.
1:26.5	One of my favorite political figures. I mean some people think that Reagan really won
1:36.7	the war on cars with that speech I just think that's that's I think giving him way
1:40.5	too much credit. Okay, those were too easy.
1:45.0	Those were too easy.
1:46.0	Okay.
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