Extra Credit: When Cars Kill
from We Built It That Way Hosted by Jordan Clark + AJ Fawver
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 death individuals and families bearing the burden of collective failures learning from other countries: whether safe streets are a "cultural" thing or a policy result Vision Zero as a response to traffic deaths neighborhood politics the 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").
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