From Cafe and the Vox Media Podcast Network, welcome to Stay Tuned.

I'm Pete Barara.

By allowing parking to become this political third rail,

we have created an environment in which it's acceptable to reject new neighbors

and reject affordable housing projects in your neighborhood on the grounds of a parking shortage.

And that again is perhaps the largest consequence of our parking status quo and the most unfair.

That's Henry Grubar.

He's a staff writer at Slate who covers housing, transportation, and urban policy.

With so many debates swirling around the future of cities,

Grubar chose to write a book about a fascinating but often overlooked topic,

parking.

It's called Paved Paradise, how parking explains the world.

And indeed, you'd be surprised at how much parking impacts all other aspects of urbanism

from affordable housing to self-driving cars.

I spoke with Grubar about the outsized role that parking has played in our country's urban landscape

and what we can do to change that.

That's coming up.

Stay tuned.

When you drive a Chevy electric vehicle, you're getting more than a way to get from point A to point B.

You're saying goodbye to gas stations and how low to open roads.

With the growing network of public charging stations, you'll be able to charge your EV

while you shop, work, or do whatever you want to be doing with your time.

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