Saving COVID's Car Free Streets

Cool Solutions: Stories of climate action from the bottom up

English - May 11, 2021 20:56 - 28 minutes - 38.5 MB - ★★★★★ - 9 ratings
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Personal stories from 3 activists fighting to preserve slow and car free streets in San Francisco. A little known federal manual is keeping streets car-centric while pedestrians and cyclists die in record numbers. While activists battle for improvements block by block, Pete Buttigieg has a chance to rewrite the whole book and spur nationwide transformation. So far, he's going with the Trump version. Find out what you can do.

Storytellers:

Activists Matt Brezina, Peter Belden, and Olivia Gamboa; Mike McGinn of America Walks, and Meredith Glaser of the Urban Cycling Institute