Curbing Traffic with Melissa and Chris Bruntlett
The War on Cars
The War on Cars, LLC
4.9 • 937 Ratings
🗓️ 27 December 2021
⏱️ 38 minutes
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Summary
In 2019, Melissa and Chris Bruntlett and their two children moved from Vancouver to the small city of Delft in the Netherlands. The experience of transitioning to and living in a place that puts people first over automobiles forms the basis for Curbing Traffic: The Human Case for Fewer Cars in Our Lives. The book, the Bruntlett's second on the lessons offered by Dutch cities, explains the many benefits of car-free and car-lite spaces, from lower anxiety and stress, better social trust, improved health and increased independence for people of all ages and abilities. Plus, as you'll hear, cities with fewer cars are quiet!
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| 1:07.6 | and helping to win the war on cars. Okay, This is the war on cars. I'm Doug Gordon. You might have noticed something a little different about the intro here. Our |
| 1:46.2 | normal War on Cars theme music, it's not there. Instead, what you just heard and what |
| 1:51.9 | you will hear throughout this episode are the sounds of Delft, |
| 1:55.8 | the small Dutch city that's home to our guests, Chris and Melissa Brunlet. |
| 2:00.9 | For a long time, Chris and Melissa lived in Vancouver with their two kids and they were very |
| 2:05.3 | involved in bicycling and safe streets advocacy there. In 2018 after an extended |
| 2:10.8 | trip to the Netherlands they wrote wrote, Building the Cycling City, the Dutch |
| 2:14.8 | blueprint for Urban Vitality. |
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