TEASER: Walking 4,000 Miles with Holden Ringer

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4.9 • 937 Ratings

🗓️ 30 July 2024

⏱️ 4 minutes

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This is a preview of a Patreon-exclusive bonus episode. For complete access to this and all of our bonus content, become a Patreon supporter of The War on Cars.

This month’s exclusive Patreon bonus episode is an interview with Holden Ringer, who recently finished walking more than 4,000 miles across the country from the starting point of LaPush, Washington. Holden is a 26-year-old originally from Dallas, Texas, and he used his odyssey to fundraise for the organization America Walks, as well as to raise awareness about active transportation and meet with fellow-minded advocates along the way. As he says, “Advocacy is built into the activity.” Not long after he reached the Atlantic Ocean in May, we sat in New York’s Bryant Park and talked about what he saw and learned during his year-plus odyssey on America’s roads, pushing a stroller he named Smiley.

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0:00.0	Hello, Sarah here. You're about to hear a sample from our new Patreon bonus episode, an interview
0:17.3	with Holden Ringer. Holden is a pedestrian advocate who just finished walking across the country.
0:23.0	If you'd like to hear the whole thing,
0:25.0	along with our back catalog of Patreon bonuses,
0:28.0	you can get access by supporting us on Patreon.
0:30.0	Just go to the War on Cars.org
0:32.0	and click on support us.
0:35.0	Thanks.
0:36.0	A lot of the time when people see someone walking on the side of a road where most people don't walk,
0:48.0	they think of that person as being a loser in some way.
0:54.8	They have to have had a DUI or they don't have any money.
1:01.0	You're sort of a nice looking young white man, right?
1:05.8	And I'm sure that in a lot of your life,
1:08.7	people respond to you as, you know,
1:10.9	oh, here's somebody that deserves some consideration, but probably when you were
1:14.8	walking on the side of the road pushing that stroller, you might not have been considered in the same
1:20.9	way as you usually are in life life and I'm just wondering if you
1:24.4	thought about that at all like how people were seeing you as you walk down the
1:28.4	street. Yeah I mean I think for one I mean there is very much an indifference of
1:32.4	being a vulnerable road user where it's like it's a very equalizing I guess quality for me it's like yeah I'm an able body white guy you know young guy who is able to walk across the country
1:42.0	there have been you know, people of color,
1:43.9	be like, I couldn't do that.
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