37 min
Extra Credit: When Cars Kill We Built It That Way
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- Society & Culture
In this Extra Credit episode, we have a chat about a frankly glum topic: when cars kill people. We discuss a fantastic piece in the New Yorker about a growing movement to end pedestrian and cycling fatalities in NYC and beyond.
Lots to cover in this show, and we talk about:
ingrained attitudes about transportation (and whose experience counts the most)policy choices that inevitably lead to avoidable deathindividuals and families bearing the burden of collective failureslearning from other countries: whether safe streets are a "cultural" thing or a policy resultVision Zero as a response to traffic deathsneighborhood politicsthe concept of "windshield bias"a few simple design approaches that make streets safer for all people... and more
Let's dive in!
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Check us out on Twitter and Instagram @webuiltitpod.
Hosted by AJ Fawver and Jordan Clark. Edited by Jordan Clark.
Music in this episode: Sounds of the Supermarket, a 1985 Weather Channel broadcast, Isaac Horwedel, and Cullah ("GroOvy" and "Western Firefight 2").
In this Extra Credit episode, we have a chat about a frankly glum topic: when cars kill people. We discuss a fantastic piece in the New Yorker about a growing movement to end pedestrian and cycling fatalities in NYC and beyond.
Lots to cover in this show, and we talk about:
ingrained attitudes about transportation (and whose experience counts the most)policy choices that inevitably lead to avoidable deathindividuals and families bearing the burden of collective failureslearning from other countries: whether safe streets are a "cultural" thing or a policy resultVision Zero as a response to traffic deathsneighborhood politicsthe concept of "windshield bias"a few simple design approaches that make streets safer for all people... and more
Let's dive in!
---
Check us out on Twitter and Instagram @webuiltitpod.
Hosted by AJ Fawver and Jordan Clark. Edited by Jordan Clark.
Music in this episode: Sounds of the Supermarket, a 1985 Weather Channel broadcast, Isaac Horwedel, and Cullah ("GroOvy" and "Western Firefight 2").
37 min