Mayors: The Good, the Bad and Bill de Blasio
The War on Cars
The War on Cars, LLC
4.9 • 937 Ratings
🗓️ 16 October 2018
⏱️ 33 minutes
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Summary
With cities on the front lines of the war on cars, can mayors muster the courage to put automobiles in their rightful place? Not to name names, but does it matter if elected officials are driven twelve miles to the gym every day in a three SUV convoy just to jog on a treadmill? Plus, Doug announces his candidacy for mayor. Can he withstand the inevitable barrage of dark money attack ads?
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EPISODE NOTES:
Paris mayor's war on cars moves up a gear with ban in heart of city. (France 24)
Watch Oslo transform into a car-free utopia (Curbed)
Barcelona mayor delcares war on injustice of private car use (Reuters)
In Montreal, an electrifying win for a long-shot who campaigned on better transit and cycling (Streetsblog)
Cars set to be banned from half of roads in London's Square Mile (Evening Standard)
German cities to trial free public transportation to cut pollution. (The Guardian)
Why Jennifer Keesmaat's Gardiner teardown pitch is key to her campaign (Toronto Star)
Car Ownership Continues to Rise Under Mayor de Blasio (Streetsblog)
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| 0:00.0 | Okay, so this episode we got to lay down some ground rules. |
| 0:03.6 | Anytime any one of us mentions a trip to Europe, traveling, |
| 0:08.3 | or riding a bicycle through Europe, |
| 0:10.6 | we're gonna ring a bell. |
| 0:13.0 | Okay, so those are the rules for this episode. |
| 0:15.0 | Great. |
| 0:16.0 | Errin, you have a story this week to get us this time to get us going. |
| 0:19.0 | Yeah, so we went to Barcelona this summer. |
| 0:21.0 | Yeah, right out of the game. Okay, keep going. Barcelona this |
| 0:23.2 | right out of the game okay going went to Barcelona and wanted to check out the you know the new |
| 0:29.0 | super Ea's the the new super blocks that they're doing there where the city of Barcelona has |
| 0:35.2 | set up these nine square block chunks of the city where you know you can no longer |
| 0:40.3 | drive through these neighborhoods. |
| 0:42.8 | You have to either drive around the edges |
| 0:45.1 | or if you have a car truck, you can kind of drive into the center |
| 0:48.7 | and then back out. |
| 0:50.0 | And so what they're doing is they're repurposing |
| 0:51.6 | all this public space in the middle of the block. |
| 0:54.8 | They're turning into playgrounds and ping pong tables and outdoor movies and all kinds of other stuff. |
| 0:59.1 | So that was cool. |
| 1:00.6 | We did a lot of biking. |
| 1:01.6 | Check out the they're doing these. |
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