Department of Bikeland Security
The War on Cars
The War on Cars, LLC
4.9 • 937 Ratings
🗓️ 17 January 2020
⏱️ 34 minutes
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Summary
Making change happen in a big, complex, bureaucratic city is really hard. One guy who knows all about that is Shabazz Stuart, the Chief Executive Officer of Oonee, a Brooklyn-based startup company that is developing secure bike-parking kiosks at major transit hubs in and around New York City. For this episode, Shabazz joins The War on Cars crew in the studio and Aaron traverses two rivers and travels all the way to New Jersey — New Jersey! — to lay eyes on the new secret weapon in The War on Cars. Plus, we’re doing some live events. Check out the Show Notes for more details.
Support The War on Cars on Patreon.
Rate and review the war effort on iTunes.
Buy a War on Cars t-shirt at Cotton Bureau.
And check out the new podcast from our friends over at TransitCenter. It’s called High Frequency.
SHOW NOTES:
You can learn more about Oonee on their company website.
Follow Oonee on Instagram and Twitter and definitely check out CEO Shabazz Stuart on Medium.
Streetfilms covered the debut of Oonee’s Brooklyn pod just before the holiday break in December.
The world’s biggest bike parking garage is in Utrecht, the Netherlands and it really illustrates the huge potential.
Join The War on Cars crew for two live events this spring!
We’ll be in Denver for Bicycle Colorado’s Moving People Forward conference on February 10.
And we’ll be in Washington, D.C., at the League of American Bicyclists’ National Bike Summit, March 15 to 17.
Hope to see you at one of these.
This episode was edited by Ali Lemer and recorded at the Brooklyn Podcasting Studio.
Find us on Twitter: @TheWarOnCars, Aaron Naparstek @Naparstek, Doug Gordon @BrooklynSpoke, Sarah Goodyear @buttermilk1.
Drop us a line: [email protected]
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| 0:00.0 | Hi everybody, Sarah Goodyear here. |
| 0:03.0 | Before we start the episode, a quick shout out to a new podcast from our friends over at transit |
| 0:07.2 | center.org. It's called High Frequency. High Frequency tells the stories of the people who are fighting to make transit faster, better, and more reliable in cities all across the United States. |
| 0:19.0 | To win the war on cars, we need transit that really works for everybody, and that's what high frequency is all about. |
| 0:26.2 | You can find it on Spotify and Apple Podcasts. |
| 0:29.3 | And now, The War on cars. |
| 0:38.0 | Should we just like walk up to the kiosk and see what's going on? This kiosk is two hundred seven square feet. |
| 0:42.0 | It would park one SUV. |
| 0:44.0 | For bikes, it can park 20 bikes at time. |
| 0:47.0 | And if you look down the street, there is a parking lot |
| 0:51.0 | that is 10 times as big as the kiosk. |
| 0:55.0 | And how many cars are in there? |
| 0:56.5 | 10 cars at most. |
| 0:58.7 | Show me how this thing works, like you're getting a bike out maybe or something? |
| 1:03.0 | Sure. When you arrive at the pod you can't you scan the door open. |
| 1:08.0 | So you don't need you guys don't have to have any like personnel here. It's just all completely self-serve. |
| 1:14.7 | The fact that this can run by itself for 24-7 |
| 1:18.5 | and doesn't need constant oversight |
| 1:21.0 | where somebody needs to physically be here makes the whole thing work. |
| 1:25.0 | It's kind of a no-brainer. |
| 1:26.0 | It's like, I mean, we must have dozens of these across, around every major transit hub in the New York City region now. |
| 1:32.0 | From your lips to God's ears. |
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