Making the Bus Sexy Again
The War on Cars
The War on Cars, LLC
4.9 • 937 Ratings
🗓️ 7 March 2019
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
What if you could get around quickly and reliably in a state-of-the-art vehicle that you didn't have to drive, park, fuel, or insure? No, it's not an Uber or a self-driving car... it's the bus! In this episode, we talk to Cam Hardy of the Better Bus Coalition in Cincinnati, Ohio, about why buses are chronically unloved and underfunded. Plus, we look at attempts to make buses cool through the power of advertising, and hear the latest battle news from the global War on Cars.
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Show notes:
Cincinnati's Better Bus Coalition
Cam Hardy's epic Facebook Live bus rant
"The Bus" from Greater Toronto's GO Transit
Midttraffik bus ad from Denmark
Human Transit, Jarrett Walker's blog
Twitter: @TheWarOnCars, Sarah Goodyear @buttermilk1, Doug Gordon @brooklynspoke, Aaron Naparstek @Naparstek, and producer Curtis Fox @curtisfox.
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| 0:00.0 | 2019 the war on cars continues apace |
| 0:09.0 | on the European front it's fjord versus forward |
| 0:11.8 | as the Norwegian capital of Oslo takes drastic measures to curtail automobiles. |
| 0:17.0 | The quaint cobblestone center of this Scandinavian city has been declared off limits to cars. |
| 0:22.0 | That's right, no more free parking for you, Mr. |
| 0:25.4 | Motorists, as the City plans to rip out 700 parking spots. Take that cars. Just a hop skip and a Eurostar ride away in Luxembourg. It's a big win in the war on cars |
| 0:37.0 | as this postage stamp-sized country becomes the first in the world to offer free mass transit for everyone. |
| 0:44.0 | Luxembourg may be small, but it's thinking big. |
| 0:48.0 | Here on the home front, there's a heartening tale. |
| 0:50.0 | In Humbull Scranton, Pennsylvania, one Loretta Nesbitt left her house, got on a bus, went about her business, and returned home on time. |
| 1:00.0 | This small act of mobility in the electric city will hopefully inspire Loretta's fellow Scrantonians to ditch their cars. |
| 1:07.8 | Yes, you can liberate yourself from traffic, all by leaving the driving to someone else. |
| 1:14.0 | So stay strong America. |
| 1:16.0 | The war on cars and I'm Sarah Goodyear. |
| 1:31.2 | I'm Doug Gordon and I I am Aaron Naprastack. |
| 1:34.6 | This week we are talking about the neglected stepchild of public transit, the bus. |
| 1:40.0 | That's right. |
| 1:40.8 | The bus may not be sexy, but it is an essential and somewhat under-appreciated weapon in the war on cars. |
| 1:48.1 | I will say, I appreciate the bus. I love the bus. I ride the bus multiple times for week but do you think it's |
| 1:53.6 | sexy it can be sexy I mean you can meet a lot of sexy people on the bus the bus |
| 1:57.7 | itself perhaps maybe not as like you're gonna get arrested on the bus no |
| 2:01.2 | no buses but buses are sexy, and we have proof. |
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