PREVIEW: What Snow Reveals About Cities (Plus More From Our Book Tour)
The War on Cars
The War on Cars, LLC
4.9 • 937 Ratings
🗓️ 3 March 2026
⏱️ 9 minutes
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In our latest Patreon bonus episode, we get into what we saw in the wildly different cities we hit on our last round of book tour (Miami! Pittsburgh! Toronto! Phoenix!). Then, we discuss how all the snow we have gotten this year has revealed some truths about what cars do to our cities and what we can learn from it. It's a lot! (And it's not just sneckdowns.)
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| 0:57.9 | pod. And thank you very much. To the point of car noise, I think one thing I would love for listeners |
| 1:04.9 | to pay attention to when it rains, notice how loud the roads are. Same amount of traffic as a dry day. That's because |
| 1:14.3 | a lot of the noise that comes from cars is not the engine. It's the rolling noise. And rain and bad weather |
| 1:19.7 | can accentuate that. Snow can have the opposite effect, of course. But yeah, the noise was really |
| 1:25.3 | striking. It was just so quiet. It was so beautiful. Yeah, |
| 1:27.8 | I just looked this up today that about 50% of the noise that Cars make comes from the tire |
| 1:34.3 | role. Yeah, certainly at higher speeds. I think once you get over like 30 miles an hour, it really |
| 1:38.3 | changes. So yeah, that's a big one. Yeah. Noise. Okay, so this next one, though, is a really big one. |
| 1:45.5 | Okay. |
| 1:46.2 | And that is what we hear at the War on Cars and elsewhere in the quote-unquote urbanist community. |
| 1:50.9 | However, you want to define that. |
| 1:52.5 | Don't call it parking. |
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