It's Finally Infrastructure Week
The War on Cars
The War on Cars, LLC
4.9 • 937 Ratings
🗓️ 3 April 2021
⏱️ 37 minutes
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Summary
From "sexy bike lanes" to just what constitutes a "bicycle accident," transportation is making headlines like never before. Aaron, Sarah and Doug are together again to consider the burning questions filling our airwaves and social media feeds right now. Will US DOT Secretary Pete Buttigieg force all Americans to ride cargo bikes filled with Dr. Seuss books and dump them in a compost pile, or is that just a Fox News fever dream? Is New York's congestion pricing plan, the first in the nation, finally about to get rolling? And is it really part of a de Blasio/Cuomo/Biden war on cars? What can Harris County Judge Lina Hidalgo teach us all about the harms of highway widening? What should be done about e-bike batteries? Plus, is America down with VMT?
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SHOW NOTES:
Industry needs to clean up electric batteries, including the ones that power your e-bike.
Shawn Bradley wasn't injured in a "bicycle accident." He was injured when a driver hit him with a car.
Harris County Judge Lina Hidalgo explains everything wrong with expanding highways.
The US DOT is using the Civil Rights Act to pause the widening of 1-45 near Houston.
A US Congresswoman thinks Bill de Blasio, Andrew Cuomo and Joe Biden are waging a war on cars.
Fox News freaks out over "sexy bike lanes."
It might be time to use Vehicle Miles Traveled to tax drivers instead of just the gas tax.
Secretary Pete appears to walk back a VMT tax.
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| 0:00.0 | You've all heard the saying April showers bring May flowers. Well, you don't want to be |
| 0:07.4 | caught off guard when it starts coming down while you're out on a bike ride or a walk this |
| 0:11.6 | spring. So get yourself some stylish |
| 0:14.1 | cleverhood rain gear and you'll be prepared for whatever Mother Nature throws your |
| 0:18.0 | way. The folks at Cleverhood who are based out of Providence, Rhode Island, |
| 0:21.4 | they've thought of everything, from reflective details |
| 0:24.1 | to keep you visible to secure zippers that won't let in any water. |
| 0:28.8 | Listeners of the War on Cars can now receive 25% off anything in the Cleverhood store. Just go to |
| 0:34.4 | Cleverhood.com slash war on cars, enter code war on cars, that's all one word, |
| 0:39.2 | and you'll get your discount. That's a huge savings on some high quality rain gear, so get your your |
| 0:45.0 | before it starts. before it starts raining. Welcome back to W.C.A.R. News. An update on our top story. A massive 18 wheel truck still stuck on Lower Manhattan's Canal Street. |
| 1:06.8 | This crisis, which has captured the attention of the region and brought commerce to a grinding |
| 1:10.8 | halt, continues on into its sixth hour. |
| 1:14.4 | This ongoing disaster has caused untold economic losses and sent tons of carbon emissions |
| 1:19.6 | into the atmosphere. |
| 1:21.4 | Crews are working as hard as they can to get the truck moving again, but it could be a long time before things are back to normal. |
| 1:27.7 | We now go live to correspondent Doug Gordon, who's high above the scene in the W-C-A-R news chopper. |
| 1:34.1 | Doug, what do you see up there? |
| 1:36.2 | Aaron, Sarah, this thing is totally jackknifeed. |
| 1:39.2 | If I look closely, I can make out the words ever driven |
| 1:42.1 | on the side of the trailer although with this |
| 1:44.1 | city's trucking regulations who owns and operates it is anyone's guess. |
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