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EPISODE · Mar 16, 2026 · 4 MIN

Bike Networks Now! Audiobook: Chapter 5. Exhibit A for “Abundance”

from Bike Networks Now! · host Avi Stopper

<div class="sqs-audio-embed" data-design-style="minimal" data-show-download="false" data-file-location="" data-url="" data-asset-url="https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5fe50748caf95b4fe920e3e0/t/69b866e9f7395106693e798d/1774354343705/BNN-Chapter+1+-+3%3A16%3A26%2C+2.22%E2%80%AFPM.mp3" data-title="Bike Networks Now! Audiobook: Chapter 5. Exhibit A for "Abundance"" data-author="" data-length-in-milli-seconds="279000" data-no-file="No File" data-untitled="Untitled"> Bike Networks Now! Audiobook: Chapter 5. Exhibit A for "Abundance" Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson’s book “Abundance” calls out the inability of blue cities and states over recent decades to build the stuff that voters want: housing, high-speed rail, and the medical breakthroughs we desperately need. “Countless dollars,” they observe, “Were spent on health insurance, housing vouchers, and infrastructure without an equally energetic focus on what all that money was buying and building…It revealed a disinterest in the workings of government. Regulations were assumed to be wise. Policies were assumed to be effective. Cries that government was stifling production or innovation typically fell on deaf ears.” <a href="https://bikestreets.com/book/exhibit-a-for-abundance" class="sqs-block-button-element--medium sqs-button-element--primary sqs-block-button-element" data-sqsp-button > Read the Chapter

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