They Paved r/place and Put Up a Parking Lot
The War on Cars
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4.9 • 937 Ratings
🗓️ 12 April 2022
⏱️ 40 minutes
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Summary
Lear about what makes a good, walkable city from author and urban planner Jeff Speck at the Harvard Graduate School of Design Executive Education, June 13 & 14.
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LINKS:
An anti-car subreddit took over a digital canvas and put up a digital parking lot. (Washington Post)
San Francisco's "Just a Minute" campaign places cyclist safety over driver convenience. (Stephen Braitsch on Twitter)
If you live near Somerville, MA and need a great bike for regular transportation, check out Bicycle Belle.
The fundamental problems with free transit. (Alex Schieferdecker)
Results from Boston's experiment with free bus fares are mixed. (Boston Globe and WGBH)
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| 0:00.0 | Guys, I got to tell you, I have a cleverhood problem at my house. |
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| 0:18.6 | And what is your problem? It was freezing rain on Saturday. I went to take my dog out. He would not step foot outside of the house because he didn't have a cleverhood like I did. |
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| 0:38.2 | as my anorac. |
| 0:39.7 | And she doesn't like to be too matchy-matchy with her father |
| 0:42.3 | because she is 12 going on 16 so I don't know that's a good problem to have but we have too many. |
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| 0:57.6 | off anything in the Cleverhood store with code happy commute. |
| 1:02.1 | Cleverhood. |
| 1:03.0 | If everyone has their own, there's no problem. This is the War on Cars. I'm Doug Gordon and I'm here with my co-host |
| 1:24.1 | Aaron Napaestack and Sarah Goodyear. How's it going? Hey there. Okay so this is a bit of a |
| 1:29.8 | breather episode for us. We've had a lot lately, some big guests in the last few |
| 1:34.3 | episodes and Sarah you just had your episode, The Pedestrian, which was |
| 1:38.4 | outstanding. It was incredible to really hear that and see it get out there in the world. |
| 1:43.0 | Thank you, thank you and it was great. |
| 1:45.1 | Ali Leymir really helped me out with that one and I've been working on it for months so |
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