Making Milwaukee a Bike City
The War on Cars
The War on Cars, LLC
4.9 • 937 Ratings
🗓️ 18 October 2022
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Summary
Late last summer, Doug headed to Milwaukee, Wisconsin and decided to see if anything bikey was going on. As luck would have it, a kids' ride organized by local advocates was scheduled for the same weekend he was there. You've heard of a pub crawl? This was a playground crawl that took parents, caregivers and kids from one park to another using a combination of city streets and separated trails. In this episode, we hear directly from the tireless volunteers and advocates working to make Milwaukee better for bicycling. Events like this are where the rubber meets the road, literally and figuratively, when it comes to building the kinds of connections and culture that leads to a safer city for people who aren't in cars.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey there, a quick reminder before we start this episode. |
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| 0:16.0 | You know the rain that comes and fall, the kind that swells through on a gray day and shakes the leaves off the trees. It's a beautiful time of |
| 0:24.6 | year to be curled up inside looking through the window. It is also a beautiful |
| 0:30.0 | time of year to be out biking and walking if you're wearing a cleverhood. |
| 0:35.0 | Throw on a cleverhood cape or anorac and you'll find yourself safe and dry out in the |
| 0:40.0 | elements. when you're pedaling through the fall landscape. |
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| 1:12.0 | and you'll be ready for whatever weather comes your way. This is the war on cars. I'm Doug Gordon. In late summer I was headed to Milwaukee, Wisconsin to see |
| 1:35.6 | family and as I sometimes do when I travel I reached out to a few people on |
| 1:40.5 | social media to see if there are any bikey things happening. |
| 1:44.7 | As luck would have it, a kids ride organized by some local advocates was scheduled for the |
| 1:49.6 | same weekend I was going to be there. |
| 1:52.3 | So you've heard of a pub crawl, right? |
| 1:55.0 | Well, this was a playground crawl. |
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