Parking is a lot

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🗓️ 19 May 2023

⏱️ 25 minutes

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In our quest to accommodate parked cars, we’ve paved over downtowns, polluted the planet, and made it near impossible to get anywhere without driving. Slate’s Henry Grabar explains Big Parking — and how electric cars might offer an opportunity to finally try something new. This episode was produced by Miles Bryan, edited by Matt Collette, fact-checked by Laura Bullard, engineered by Michael Raphael, and hosted by Sean Rameswaram. Transcript at vox.com/todayexplained Support Today, Explained by making a financial contribution to Vox! bit.ly/givepodcasts Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	The summer blockbuster season kicks off and earnests today with a big dumb movie about
0:06.7	cars.
0:07.7	You might want to buckle up.
0:10.3	Cars getting hit by missiles.
0:13.5	Cars driving off the Hoover Dam.
0:17.8	Cannon cars.
0:19.8	Cannon cars.
0:20.8	That was awesome.
0:23.8	But here today explain, we'd like to talk about parked cars.
0:28.5	The fast and furious movies, much like the rest of us take parking for granted because
0:33.0	it's mostly free and easy, but there is a cost.
0:37.4	That free and easy parking makes it hard to create affordable housing, create walkable
0:42.8	neighborhoods.
0:43.8	It has deleterious effects on the environment, both locally and globally.
0:48.5	And so those are just some of the consequences of not really thinking hard about parking.
0:53.6	On the show today, we're going to think hard about parking so Vin Diesel doesn't have
0:57.8	to.
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