Secretly Incredibly Fascinating - BONUS SHOW 266: ”The Paradox Of Universal Political Support For Speed Humps”

This is the bonus show for Episode 266! (Speed Bumps)

Alex Schmidt and Katie Goldin explore the obviously incredibly fascinating topic of unified left wing, right wing, and centrist support for proposals to install more speed humps worldwide.

RESEARCH SOURCES:

• The Swedish Approach to Road Safety: 'The Accident Is Not the Major Problem' (Bloomberg City Lab)
• How Helsinki cut traffic deaths to zero with smart planning (Deutsche Welle)
• 'Smart' speed bumps installed at Curtin University to crack down on speeding drivers (Australian ABC News)
• Some More News: "Do Cities Really Need All These Cars?", by Katie Goldin
• American Gentry: The jet-setting cosmopolitans of popular imagination exist, but they are far outnumbered by a less exalted and less discussed elite group, one that sits at the pinnacle of America’s local hierarchies. (The Atlantic)
• A New Study Confirms (Again) That Race, Not Economics, Drove Former Democrats to Trump (Pacific Standard)
• It's time to bust the myth: Most Trump voters were not working class. (The Washington Post)
• People Voted for Trump Because They Were Anxious, Not Poor (The Atlantic)
• Why 41 percent of white millennials voted for Trump (The Washington Post)