TEASER: Let's Crush These Dirt Bikes with Alex Pareene
The War on Cars
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🗓️ 18 January 2022
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***This is a preview of a short bonus episode just for Patreon supporters. Become a Patreon supporter of The War on Cars for ad-free access to this and all our exclusive content. Plus, we'll send you stickers!***
The New Republic's Alex Pareene joined us for Episode 78, "311 is a Joke," and we had a lot of fun. We chatted about the battle for scarce street space in the big city and the role that municipal government plays (and doesn't play) in sorting it all out (or not). As often happens when we get going in the studio, our conversation with Alex ran long and some good stuff didn't make it into the final cut. In this bonus episode, we learn about Alex's step-dad Chuck from North Dakota and hear from New York City's now-former Mayor Bill de Blasio as he attempts to destroy a bunch of dirt bikes on Staten Island.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, it's Aaron here and this is a preview of a short bonus episode that's just for our |
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| 0:18.8 | It's a bit of extra material from our conversation with journalist Alex Perrine in episode 78. |
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| 0:47.4 | Part of it was sort of |
| 0:52.0 | of getting the terms right here right because the dirt bikes. |
| 0:55.0 | The dirt bikes are you know there's a there's a scourge of them around the city like you said. |
| 0:59.0 | So what is a dirt bike? A dirt bike is a dirt bike is basically just a small motorcycle there's a lot of different like |
| 1:04.6 | other definitions but it's mostly just that and I think it's careful to get the |
| 1:09.6 | definitions right because the police are constantly impounding and seizing the wrong kinds of vehicles. |
| 1:15.6 | Yes. And because there are obviously mopeds and there are e-bikes and the police will frequently |
| 1:21.5 | refer to things as quote illegal e-bikes and then what they've seized are basically actually small motorcycles. |
| 1:27.5 | But anyway, the fact of the matter is like there's a bunch of young people, a lot of them just teenagers, who like riding these things around the city. |
| 1:34.8 | They can be annoying, they can sometimes be scary when they're riding late at night, |
| 1:38.8 | and they're environmental disasters. They have two stroke motors. They're like the the motors are huge |
| 1:45.8 | huge polluters. The motors are terrible. And it's like right. It's like |
| 1:50.0 | riding around on a leaf blower. Yeah, exactly. Yeah. Sounds like it would be fun actually. |
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