The Problem With Public Meetings, Part 2
The War on Cars
The War on Cars, LLC
4.9 • 937 Ratings
🗓️ 4 October 2019
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Summary
In Part 1 of "The Problem With Public Meetings" we took you inside a difficult community meeting in Fort Greene, Brooklyn and urged compassion and understanding for neighbors who aren’t quite yet on board with The War on Cars. Here in Part 2, we take you to yet another community meeting, this time, in Park Slope, Brooklyn where diplomacy fails, the action gets kinetic and a TWOC co-host is physically assaulted by a bike lane-hating conspiracy theorist meditation instructor. Yes, you heard that right. How do you know when it’s time to stop seeking common ground with parking-obsessed, car-addicted, change-averse members of your community and start working on their utter, total and overwhelming defeat in the arena of local politics? Strap on your helmet, soldiers. Get ready for The Battle of 9th Street.
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SHOW NOTES:
Video of The Battle of 9th Street via Jake Offenhartz
Video of the The Battle of 9th Street via Brian Howald.
Bikelash’s Latest Tactics: Pedophile Smears and Conspiracy Theories, Streetsblog.
People have been fighting to stop the carnage and make 9th Street safer for years and years and years. It's endless.
The most recent 9th Street horror: What New York Should Learn From the Park Slope Crash That Killed Two Children, New York Magazine.
Is a Better Public Meeting Possible? Casey Berkovitz, The Century Foundation.
Progressive Boomers are Making it Impossible for Cities to Fix the Housing Crisis. Michael Hobbes, The Huffington Post.
This episode was edited by Matt Cutler.
Find us on Twitter @TheWarOnCars, Aaron Naparstek @Naparstek, Sarah Goodyear @buttermilk1 and Doug Gordon @BrooklynSpoke. Email us: [email protected]
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| 0:00.0 | Hey everybody. There's some language in this episode that may not be appropriate for all |
| 0:05.2 | listeners. |
| 0:06.2 | Breaking news. |
| 0:08.2 | Welcome to a special edition of the War on Cars. |
| 0:12.1 | We take you now to a church basement in Park Slope |
| 0:14.6 | Brooklyn where a public meeting on bike lanes has erupted into violence. |
| 0:19.2 | You're threatened to beat his ass because that's what it just sounds like you're just threatened to beat his ass? Because that's what it just sounds like. |
| 0:23.0 | You're just threatened to beat his ass? |
| 0:25.0 | You're just threatened to beat my ass. |
| 0:29.0 | You are starting. |
| 0:30.0 | Let's listen to what's going on there's meetings. |
| 0:32.0 | How about nobody? Let's listen to what's going on there's a meeting. |
| 0:32.6 | How about nobody's breaking up? |
| 0:34.6 | He just breaking me in my eyes. |
| 0:36.6 | Welcome to the War on Cars. |
| 0:39.7 | Yeah, for real, the War on Cars. |
| 0:41.6 | We're fully into combat now. Yeah I guess so. Yeah this is a new |
| 0:44.7 | level. I was not expecting this. This is a special episode of the war on cars. I am |
| 0:50.3 | Aaron Napersack here with my co-hosts, Sarah Goodyear, and Doug Gordon, who survived, |
| 0:56.7 | survived the legendary meeting of the 9th Street Bike Lane. |
| 1:00.9 | Now legendary. |
| 1:02.0 | And not everybody has heard about this meeting perhaps but many |
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