# How to Be a Better Transportation Advocate (Carter Lavin)

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Podcast: [The Brake: A Streetsblog Podcast](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-brake-a-streetsblog-podcast-5075089)
Published: 2025-11-19T01:00:00+00:00
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## Resource

There's a big difference between knowing what is best of your city's transportation system, and knowing how to fight the often fierce political battles you need to win in order to make it real. Fortunately, one author has written a manual to help transit advocates across America do exactly that, from picking campaigns out of the tangle of interlocking transportation challenges that ensnare our cities, to winning over the skeptical — and everything in between. On this episode of The Brake, we're joined by Carter Lavin's to discuss his new book "If You Want to Win, You've Got To Fight: A Guide to Effective Transportation Advocacy," which host Kea Wilson called "the book the transportation reform movement has been waiting for."

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