TEASER: More Motonormativity with Marco Te Brommelstroet, aka "The Fiestprofessor."

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🗓️ 25 March 2025

⏱️ 11 minutes

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You may remember Marco te Brömmelstroet, also known as "The Fietsprofessor," from episode 65, "Where Are the Bike Lanes In Lego City?" Marco returns for this special bonus episode to discuss a new study he co-authored with Dr. Ian Walker, another former guest of the podcast.

The study, "Why Do Cars Get a Free Ride? The social-ecological roots of motonormativity," takes a look at a phenomenon where people accept the harms and risks associated with cars in ways they wouldn't in other areas of life and asks where motonormativity comes from and examines the ways in which it manifests itself differently depending on factors such as where a person lives or their perceptions of the beliefs of their friends and family. The results are fascinating.

Marco te Brömmelstroet holds the Chair on Urban Mobility Futures at the University of Amsterdam. He is the founding academic director of the Urban Cycling Institute and uses Dutch cycling culture as a lens to study the two-way relations between mobility, the city and society. He also the co-author, with journalist Thalia Verkade, of an excellent book, "Movement: How to Take Back Our Streets and Transform Our Lives," which challenges readers to radically rethink how we use public spaces and even the language to describe the change we want to see in the world.

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0:00.0	This is the War on Cars.
0:13.9	I'm Doug Gordon.
0:15.6	So you might call this episode the latest in an accidental series on modonormativity.
0:22.8	Motonormativity is a shared bias whereby people use different standards when judging
0:28.3	things related to cars than when judging other topics.
0:32.7	Back in episode 99, we had Professor Ian Walker on the show to talk about what we called
0:38.8	Car Brain.
0:40.3	That was about his and his colleagues' research into the phenomenon.
0:44.5	Then in episode 140, we welcomed Dr. Tara Goddard on to discuss her research, which replicated
0:51.7	Dr. Walker's UK-based studies in a U.S. context.
0:56.4	For this episode, we are continuing the conversation around modemortivity.
1:00.7	We're also going to dive into language as a way of seeing our built environment and the
1:05.7	choices we make and consider the future of our communities.
1:10.2	Okay, so our guest for this episode is a return visitor to the war on cars.
1:15.4	It's Marco to Brummelstrut, also known as the Feats Professor online.
1:19.8	That's Feets, as in the Dutch word for bicycle.
1:22.9	Marco holds the chair on urban mobility futures at the University of Amsterdam.
1:28.7	He's also the founding academic director of the Urban Cycling Institute. And in his research, he uses Dutch
1:34.4	cycling culture as a lens to study the two-way relations between mobility, the city, and society.
1:41.5	He is also the author with Talia Verkata of Movement, How to Take Back Our Streets and
1:47.4	Transform Our Lives. And as I mentioned, we are welcoming him back to the podcast. He last appeared
1:53.5	on episode 65. Where are the bike lanes in Lego City? Marco to Brumble Struit, welcome back
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