This is The War on Cars.

I'm Doug Gordon.

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Plus, we will send you a handwritten thank you note. Now, about this

episode, it's an election year, a big one, in fact, but if you're in the safe streets or transit

advocacy world, you have to play a careful game. While nonprofit organizations can advocate for

policies and infrastructure changes that protect

pedestrians and cyclists and make transit more efficient and accessible, they can't endorse

candidates for office or otherwise throw their weight around when another election comes.

Thankfully, a handful of safe streets and transit-focused political action committees and lobbying groups

have sprung up to explicitly influence and endorse candidates that they see as friendly to the cause.

In this bonus episode, I talked to the leaders of three of those organizations,

Streetspack, which was founded in New York in 2013, Streets Pack NJ, which, as the name

suggests, focuses on New Jersey, and the Better Streets Chicago Action Fund, which just recently

got off the ground. My guest shares stories and advice for how to win elections and

influence politicians, and how making biking to win elections and influence politicians and how making

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