TEASER: Your Best Things of 2024

The War on Cars

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4.9 • 937 Ratings

🗓️ 31 December 2024

⏱️ 6 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, plus ad-free versions of regular episodes, merch discounts, pre-sale tickets to live shows, and more, become a Patreon supporter of The War on Cars.

For our year-end bonus episode, we asked our Patreon supporters to tell us the best things that happened to them or in their communities in 2024. We heard from listeners around the globe about the many victories, from the political to the personal, that stood out to them in the past year and that give them hope for the future. There was a lot to celebrate, including lower speed limits, new bike commutes, and a string of victories at the local level that mean progress in The War on Cars.

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0:00.0	Hey everybody. I'm Doug Gordon, and I'm one of the co-hosts of the War on Cars.
0:16.4	What you're about to hear is a preview of an exclusive bonus episode featuring our listeners
0:21.7	sharing the best things that happened to them in 2024.
0:25.8	When you sign up to support the war on cars, you not only get access to bonus episodes
0:30.2	like this one, you also get ad-free versions of regular episodes, opportunities to buy tickets
0:36.1	to our live shows before the general public,
0:38.9	merch discounts, and a whole lot more. Your support means the world to us. We are an independently
0:44.6	produced podcast and depend on listeners like you to keep the War on Cars going and growing.
0:50.9	To sign up, visit patreon.com slash the war on cars pod.
0:55.0	You can join starting at just $3 a month and annual subscriptions are also available.
1:01.0	On behalf of me and my co-host Sarah Goodyear, thank you so much and happy New Year.
1:07.0	The best thing that happened to me this year was my teenager started high school this
1:14.5	fall and after years of having to drive him across town because there really weren't any
1:21.2	other ways for him to get to school, we switched to a school for high school that is closer, and he's now able to bike and take the city bus to school.
1:35.1	It's just been so cool to see what a transformation this has been for him and how much more independence and kind of agency over his day that gives him.
1:49.5	He still lets me bike with him some mornings to school, and that's awesome because we have
1:56.1	great conversations as we navigate through the city together. But he bikes home by himself. He takes
2:05.2	the bus by himself. And it's been really great for him and pretty amazing for us too because we've
2:12.8	really kind of shifted from having to have the car front and center every day to really being
2:21.8	a car last in terms of how we think about getting around town. And that's a huge transformation
2:29.8	and something I'm really excited and proud of.
2:34.8	Isn't that great?
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