NEW EPISODE!

"When Driving is Not an Option with Anna Zivarts."

One-third of people in the US can’t drive. Those tens of millions of people are often invisible to planners and elected officials, and that’s why Anna Letitia Zivarts, a low-vision nondriver and activist has written a new book, "When Driving Is Not an Option: Steering Away from Car Dependency." We talked with Anna about building a system that works for everyone.

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#thewaroncars #podcast #transportation

Holy crap. In the EU, fuel consumption monitoring devices are required on new cars. They studied over 10% of all cars sold in 2021 and turns out they use way more fuel, and generate way more CO2, than anybody thought. Nearly a quarter more. Plug-in Hybrids do poorly too.

This means our projections about getting cars off the road for the climate crisis is hugely undercounting the effects. More rail, more e-bikes, more electric, faster.

#ClimateCrisis #CO2 #TheWarOnCars
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"...the city of Paris has made enormous investments in public transit, built hundreds of miles of bike paths, and closed many streets to cars. Car trips within the city dropped by almost sixty per cent between 2001 and 2018, car crashes dropped by thirty per cent, and pollution has improved. The city is quieter and calmer; test scores go up as the air around schools cleans up."

#TheWarOnCars #Paris #climatechange

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To Save the Planet, Should We Really Be Moving Slower?

Bill McKibben assesses the validity of the arguments that both degrowthists and those who are pro-green-tech make for how we should address climate change.

^{Bill McKibben (The New Yorker)}

Via friend of the podcast Henry Grabar:

-Car trips starting and ending in Paris are down 60 percent since 2000

-Car trips between city and suburbs down 35 percent in that time

-168+ schools with car-free blocks created since 2020

-one (1) cyclist killed in 2022

#TheWarOnCars #Paris

slate.com/business/2023/03/par…

How Paris Pulled Off What New York and London Can Only Dream About

One parking structure pivoted to growing mushrooms and endives.

^{Henry Grabar (Slate)}