Talking Headways: A Streetsblog Podcast

This week at Mondays at The Overhead Wire, we're joined by Streetsblog USA's Kea Wilson to chat about the new USDOT directives from the Trump administration. We talk about rescinded memos, funding memos, and Kea thinks Jeff might be trying to hard to find logic in the reasoning for using birth and marriage rates to steer transportation funding.

Below are items we chatted about on the show....

Donald Shoup was about more than just parking - CPDR

Unflooding the zone - T4America

Why DOT is promising more money for higher birthrates - Streetsblog USA

Rescinding DOT policy Memo - USDOT

Weird funding mechanisms and edicts Memo - USDOT

Social cost of carbon - Washington Post

Birth rate funding would leave communities behind - Urban Institute

The Brake Podcast at Streetsblog USA

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This week on Talking Headways we’re joined by Member of the Welsh Senedd (Parliament) Lee Waters and Dr. Jennifer Kent of The University of Sydney. They talk about how Wales set climate targets, did a roads review, got to a 20 mile per hour speed limit across the country, and what it might take for other places to do the same. They share the importance of leadership, the data around benefits related to 20mph, and how waiting to long for change might doom it.

Some relevant items:

Wales 2021 Transport Strategy - Wales

Welsh roads review - Wales

Welsh roads review - Streetsblog

Lee Waters' blog on the process - Lee Waters

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This week on Talking Headways we’re joined by Mike Eliason of larch lab to discuss his new book Building for People: Designing Livable, Affordable, Low-Carbon Communities. We chat about single stair buildings, development on arterials, building back after climate disasters, and the problem with RFPs.

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This week on Mondays at The Overhead Wire we're Han Solo, but that doesn't stop us from talking about all the podcasts we've got coming up, news about the LA wildfires, modular homes, and surveillance technology. More news than you can use this week on the Talking Headways podcast feed.

Main News Items

Essential eternal apartment - JSTOR Daily

Rethining wildfires - Slate

Experts on the wildfires - LA Times

Modular homes - Marketplace

Surveillance changing brains - The Conversation

100 year anniversary of auto dependence - Streetsblog USA

Rethinking e-bike regulations - Carbon Upfront!

Weak web of LA Government - New York Times

MDUs - Sightline

Bonus Items

Montreal drivers get huge bills - CBC News

City grocery Stores - Governing

Pricing stems traffic - Streetsblog NYC

Walgreens admits failures - Huffpost

GM banned from sharing driving data - Reuters

Property tax system reform - Brookings

LBJ cancelled moon base for subways - Jalopnik

Berlin housing loophole - Guardian

Austin rents fall on home building - Texas Tribune

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This week on Talking Headways we’re joined by Jon Kramer, CEO of engineering and planning firm OHM Advisors. Jon chats about going from Intern to CEO over a 30 year period, competing against large engineering firms, and the state of engineering education.

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This week on Talking Headways we’re joined by Bridget Marquis, Director of Reimagining the Civic Commons. Bridget chats with us about connecting public assets, the importance of creating metrics that matter, and better ways to think about community engagement.

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We're Han Solo this week but have a lot to share from the end of December and the start of 2025.  As we get back into the new year we cover new ways to think about housing construction, transit expansion from Yonah Freemark, and worries about the brightness of headlights.

Check out the show notes below. 

Transit Openings 2025 - Transport Politic

Radical construction rethink - Common Edge 

Property tax rethink - Slate

Intergenerational living arrangement - Maclean's Canada

Forever chemicals in drinking water - New York Times

Why it's hard to stop driving - Slate

Headlights getting brighter - The Ringer

The great abandonment - The Guardian

Hidden cause of Food Deserts - The Atlantic

Bonus Items

Virtual power purchase agreements - Smart Cities Dive

Car dependence and life satisfaction - Travel Behavior and Society

Illegal to stop in Philly bike lanes - Philadelphia Inquirer

Location key to walking more - Men's Health

DC tackled a child care crunch - NPR

Universal Pre-K - New York Magazine

Miami condos sinking - Miami Herald

AT&T to end landline service - Urban Milwaukee

MNDOT won't remove I-94 - Minneapolis Star Tribune

Corn isn't a good solar panel - Need to Know

NACTO Launches urban bikeway guide - NACTO

Raleigh can't find BRT contractor - News and Observer

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This week on the Talking Headways podcast we're joined by Ben Ross and Joe Cortright to discuss their article in Dissent Magazine discussing how modeling is being used to expand highways around the country. We chat about their critiques of highway modeling, politics, and some potential solutions to the problem.

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This week we’re joined by Professor Sara Bronin to talk about her book Key to the City: How Zoning Shapes Our World. We chat about all the ways that land is regulated. And why zoning is an opportunity for people to reshape their communities. We also chat about food policy, connecting the street to property, and the relationship between land and natural systems.

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This week for our holiday break we’re going back in time to episode 108 which we recorded in Cambridge England with Daniele Quercia and Luca Aiello of Bell Labs. We chatted about using social media to map sensory experiences in cities including smells and soundscapes.

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This week we’re joined by Austin Gibble, currently of Stantec but formerly of the City of Indianapolis and IndyGo. We chat about the history of planning for BRT in Indy, the Cultural Trail bike network, transit and infrastructure costs, and the interpersonal relationships that can make or break projects.

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This week we’re going back to 2021 to chat with Professor Andres Sevtsuk of MIT about his book Street Commerce: Creating Vibrant Urban Sidewalks.  I really liked this discussion and he just had an MIT News profile out yesterday about his work so I thought it might be of interest to folks.  We chat the importance of location in urban retail, the city factors that might determine a store’s success, and why urban retail should be studied more in planning school.

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This week we’re back at the Mpact conference in Philadelphia and joined by Ruth Miller of Jawnt. Ruth shares her superhero origin story and how employer transit pass programs like SEPTA’s Key Advantage Program work to support employees, agencies, and the region overall.

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This week we’re at Mpact in Philadelphia chatting with King County Metro’s Rachel DeCordoba about her work educating the next generation of transit riders. She chats about transit education and curriculum and the importance of learning with peers.

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This week on Mondays at The Overhead Wire we're Han Solo, but that doesn't stop us from sharing upcoming episodes of Talking Headways and news from the last month or so.  We chat about greening concrete, a car free Congress Avenue, Hamburg's green space compact, and rainways in Vancouver BC.

Links from the Show!

Reimagining Congress Ave - KUT

Greening Concrete - Yale e360

Greening Asphalt and Concrete - TOW on Substack

Hamburg green contract - Guardian

Roads Taken - Baker Institute

Rainway vs atmospheric river - The Tyee

Philly self storage - Philadelphia Inquirer

Preventing street takeovers - Jalopnik

Daylighing intersections in SF - SF Standard

Failures of urban governance - Vital City

Mexico all in on housing - Newsweek

Alabama zombie highway - Inside Climate News

Spokane comfort network - Range Media

State DOTs hiding emissions - Streetsblog USA

Toronto bike lanes - Guardian

Housing instability - Decibel

TfL seizes cars - Guardian

Deteriorating housing - NPR

Bus depot energy hubs - Press Wire

100K bike ride - Guardian

Relaunching congestion pricing - Gothamist

Insurance climate change - Louisiana Illuminator

SEPTA transfer funding - Philadelphia Inquirer

Caltrain ridership high - Mass Transit Magazine

Puppies and Butterflies

A Lego Tram - Associated Press

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This week we’re joined by Ryan Kelley, Community development Manager for Hennepin County in Minnesota.  Ryan chats with us about the county’s transit-oriented communities program and how they support commercial preservation and aid businesses.

This episode was produced in partnership with Mpact. For more information, visit http://mpactmobility.org

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This week we’re joined by writer Rob Walker to talk about his book, City Tech: 20 Apps, Ideas, and Innovations Changing the Urban Landscape. We discuss data collection, misconceptions, impressive transportation technologies such as e-bikes, and how technology has progressed in the last decade.

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A Flashback! That’s right we’re flashing back again to Episode 308 of the Talking Headways podcast with Sara Hendren discussing her book What a Body Can Do. Sara chats with us about how we think and talk about disability, reframing independent living, and designing a humane world for everyone. This is one of my favorites and I’m glad we’re getting to share it with folks again.

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This week we’re joined by Dani Simons, currently of Alstom but formerly Assistant to the Secretary and Director of Public Affairs at USDOT, to take a look back at how Biden Administration policies evolved from ideas to bills such as the IIJA and Inflation reduction act. We also discuss Buy America, the impacts of outside criticisms from different sides of the political spectrum, and the importance of storytelling.

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John Simmerman of Active Towns joins the Mondays Show post election to talk about some of the transit wins. We also look ahead and wonder if LA really could go car free for the Olympics and whether Canada is ready for high speed rail.

Below are the show notes and items we chatted about on the show with John.

Voters pass Denver 7A - Colorado Sun

Nashville voters pass transit funding - Nashville Tennessean

Columbus passes transit measure - Columbus Dispatch

Washington voters save climate bill - Associated Press

Cobb and Gwinett transit measures fail - Saporta Report

LA County homeless funding tax passes - Los Angeles Times

Will LA Olympics go car free? - Slate

Canada will announce high speed rail plans - CBC News

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This week on Talking Headways we’re joined by Julie Huls, CEO of Waymaker Group. We chat about economic development strategies for mid-sized cities, the impacts of the pandemic on regional thinking, and what a future of Mega Regions means for cities trying to attract talent.

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This week on Talking Headways we’re listening in on a 1 to 1 conversation between Julie Eaton Ernst, Climate Resilience Practice Leader at HNTB, and Dr. Cris Liban, Chief Sustainability Officer at LA Metro.  They chat about the co-benefits of transportation, the evolution of the definition of transportation, and making change in small steps.

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We’re going back in time to Episode 144 to chat with Matthew Heins about his book The Globalization of American Infrastructure: The Shipping Container and Freight Transportation. We’ve done a lot of fun shows and I had forgotten about this one until I was looking back trying to think of a good oldie to share with you all.  

Matthew talks about how the American highway and rail systems created a global standard for shipping containers, the local actors shaping globalization, containerization’s effects on labor and relevance to an automated trucking future, and the massive intermodal terminals in cities like Chicago. 

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This week we’re joined by Leah Shahum, Executive Director of the Vision Zero Network. We chat about why it’s so hard to make change, the implicit biases around designing for automobiles and the World Day of Remembrance for Road Traffic Victims coming up on November 17th.

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This week we’re joined by Gillian Gillett of CalITP and Dan Baker, of the Connecticut Department of Transportation to discuss how agencies can create simpler payment and travel experiences for transit riders.  We chat about the Connecticut Integrated Mobility Project, building payment system capacity and merchant services for smaller transit agencies, and the need for digital customer first thinking in a paper based industry.

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This week on Mondays Wes Marshall is back! We chat about his trip to Bogota Columbia, the connections between biological structure and the built environment, and of course we discuss the news from last week including climate migration, high speed rail, roundabouts, and healthy urbanism.

Check out below for the show notes including links to the items we chatted about and a full AI generated unedited transcript of this show. And don't forget to check this out on YouTube.

Show Notes

Ants that count - NPR

Austin to Mexico HSR? MySA

Japan's 60 years of HSR - The Guardian

To Mexico Under Wires - The Overhead Wire

Moving to Disaster Prone Areas - New York Times

Nowhere is safe, not even climate havens - The Guardian

Galveston at the edge of the seawall - Washington Post

A worse case scenario - Washington Post

Rebuilding roads post disaster - Wired Magazine

The Sprawl - The Overhead Wire

The Modular Roundabout - Equipment World

Rethinking La Rambla - El Pais

Obvious Solutions v. Actual Ones - The Overhead Wire

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This week on Talking Headways, we're joined by architect Vishaan Chakrabarti to talk about his book The Architecture of Urbanity: Designing for Nature, Culture, and Joy. We discuss the goldilocks density, defining urbanity, and the ennui of young architects.

How to Make Room for 1M New Yorkers - NYT

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We’re flashing back to Talking Headways episode 246 from five years ago and chat with Andrew Owen of the Accessibility Observatory about access as a metric! Wes Marshall will be back next week but in the meantime we've got you covered with some great information.

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This week we’re joined by Cameron Mays, lead singer of the Transit Themed band The Frans.  We chat about transit in Cleveland, the song writing process for transit music, and the parking lot in Erie Pennsylvania that inspired him.

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This week we’re joined by Cassidy Boulan and Thom Stead of the Delaware Valley Regional Planning Commission (DVRPC). We chat about their work in Philadelphia, Trenton, and greater New Jersey related to complete streets and creating safe infrastructure for biking and bus drivers.

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This week on Mondays we're joined by Professor Wes Marshall of the University of Colorado Denver to go through this week's news. We talk 15 Minute Cities, increasing car loans, social housing, and whether a new train to Boulder makes sense. We're also sharing this one on YouTube in a few days so check in there too.

Main Items

The 15 Minute City - Guardian Cities (Research Paper linked inside article)

15 minute city interactive website

Car loans pass student loans - Jalopnik

The Home Act - New York Times

An affordable housing experiment - Vox

Boulder train coming? - Colorado Public Radio

Future of Lyft bikes - Lyft

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This week on the Talking Headways podcast we're hitting 500 episodes! And to celebrate we have a bit of a look back in time with Tanya Snyder of the origins of the show and then we chat with Ken Napzok and Joseph Scrimshaw of my favorite podcast Force Center.  But we don't talk about Star Wars, we talk about Los Angeles and thier feelings towards the place they call home.

Find Joseph and Ken at their respective websites.

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This week we’re joined by Mike Christensen, Executive Director of the Utah Rail Passengers Association and a tireless advocate for intercity passenger rail.  Mike chats with us about Amtrak’s expansion plans, the impact of the infrastructure bill and why things take so long to implement.

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This week on Mondays at The Overhead Wire we're joined by Sam Sklar to talk about a lot of interseting topics from Charlotte and Riyadh transit expansions to climate policies that work and why kids aren't taking the bus to school as much.  We also share some recent research on windshield perspectives from Tara Goddard and look at what rising car insurance rates might mean for the future.

Find Sam at Exasperated Infrastructures

Below are the Items we discussed on the show:

Main Topics

Charlotte city council wants transit ballot measure - WFAE

Riyadh's $25B metro project - Newsweek

What climate policies work - Grist

The Failing School Bus - Slate

Windshield Bias - Findings Press

Car insurance going up - CBS News

Puppies and Butterflies

Borgen The Show

The 100 Year Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared

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This week on Talking Headways we’re joined by podcaster and transit expert Paul Comfort and former California State Transportation Agency Secretary David Kim to talk about their ensemble book The New Future of Public Transportation. We talk about writing cookbooks, road user charges, and the importance of leadership.

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Since it’s Labor Day we’ve got a flashback Talking Headways here at Mondays at The Overhead Wire!  Next week we’ll be back with a Mondays show with a special guest that’s not Han Solo so stay tuned!

But this week we’re chatting with Kenneth O’reilly about his book Asphalt: A History. We chatted about what asphalt is, how it was used for building, war, and economic expansion and how it affects the future of the planet. Ninety-four percent of our roads are asphalt, and they are 100 percent recyclable.

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This week on Talking Headways we chat with transportation and planning expert Warren Logan, who is running for Oakland City Council in District 3. Warren talks about the differences in how people perceive government works, the need for more flexible streets, and gives thoughts on housing policy.

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This week on the Talking Headways podcast we’re joined by Dylan Rivera and Jacob Sherman of the Portland Bureau of Transportation to discuss micromobility. We chat about the importance of cities regulating access to transportation markets, importance of bike infrastructure, transportation wallets and alternatives to a parking pass.

Link to Portland's E-Scooter Program - PBOT

Portland Scooter Data - PBOT

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This week we're Han Solo, but we're chatting about how the First Nations in Vancouver are becoming to largest property developer in California, the idea of urban delivery hubs and switching cargo planning, how cities are heating up at night, and the idea that some folks are tired of losing.

Below are the links from the items we talked about on the shows.

First Nations development - Fast Company

Urban delivery hubs - Transport Topics

Ownership burdens of cars and homes - Infra/Structures

Rest of the world building subways - Fast Company

Tired of losing - Slate

Olympics bike revolution - Momentum Magazine

Commutes harm health - The City Fix

Cities heating at night - The New York Times

Chennai's subway savings - Times of India

Bonus Items

Berlin's street level pollution monitoring - TheMayor.eu

Long beach data collection - LA Times

Bus rapid transit impacts on traffic - SSTI

City of Boston e-bike voucher - Boston.com

London cargo bike gains - Forbes

Feds scrap veteran housing restrictions - LA Times

Cities should be proactive on road funding - Governing

$20B Bay Area housing  bond cancelled - CalMatters

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This week we’re joined by Move Minnesota director Sam Rockwell to talk about climate bills Minnesota legislators have passed that could reduce highway and road building emissions in the state. We chat about setting transportation related climate targets, highway modeling, and taking the time to read federal rule comment letters.

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This week on the Talking Headways podcast swe’re joined by Nico Larco, Director of the Urbanism Next Center at the University of Oregon. We chat about his new book with Kaarin Knudson, The Sustainable Urban Design Handbook as well as a realization about how most of what we do in the United States seems to be bandaids for a lack of urban density.

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This week we’re jumping back in time to visit Talking Headways episode 285 featuring Professor Germaine Halegoua discussing her book The Digital City: Media and the Social Production of Place.  It’s one of my favorite book discussions ever and I thought it would be a nice episode to revisit.

In this episode, Germaine talks about how people use digital media to relate to cities whether that’s images on Instagram or through Google Maps. We also talk about how data exchange can be exploitative and how internet infrastructure is used as a commodity rather than a utility and how that affects equity. And finally there's a discussion about smart cities and how they try to create top down culture.

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This week on Talking Headways we have a conversation moderated by Corrie Parrish of Kittelson Associates with Andrea Breault of Cascades East Transit and Amy Schlappi of Columbia Area Transit discussing Transit service to the Great Outdoors.

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This week we’re joined by Chris Redfearn of USC and Anthony Orlando of Cal Poly Pomona to discuss their paper - Houston, you have a problem: How large cities accommodate more housing. We talk about why "pro-business" Texas housing markets are catching up to "pro-regulation" California and what it might mean for future city growth.

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This week on Mondays Chrissy Mancini-Nichols is back! We talk about universal basic mobility, cool corridors, Japan's idea for a massive underground freight conveyor belt and freight's first mile last mile problem, health problems caused by a Texas bitcoin mine, and USDOT's push for emissions reductions. 

Chrissy also mentioned commenting on the PROWAG regulations

Also the Fresno transit microgrid 

News Items

Universal Basic Mobility Oakland - LA Times

Cooling corridors - DW | Reasons to be Cheerful

Japan's freight mover - Fast Company

Bitcoin mining and health - Time Magazine

USDOT Decarbonization strategies - Smart Cities Dive

Minnesota e-bike rebate - Minneapolis Star Tribune

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This week on the Talking Headways podcast we’re joined by Kevin Kelley, founding partner and principal at Shook Kelley. We talk about his book Irreplaceable: How to Create Extraordinary Places that Bring People Together.  We discuss eliciting emotions, the debate between themes and authenticity, changing the meaning of cities, and embracing density.

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This week on Talking Headways we're joined by Adriana Rizzo of Californians for Electric Rail. We chat about freight and warehousing growth in California's Inland Empire, the benefits of train electrification and a new California CEQA exemption push for overhead wires, and why hydrogen trains are getting more attention.

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This week on the Mondays show, we're Han Solo but have a lot of interesting items about shorter work weeks, children's brains and the impact of traffic noise, overbuilt retail, and highway expansion and climate change.  

Below are the links and show notes:

News Items

Supreme court overturns Chevron - Grist

Supreme court on homeless - Governing

Traffic and children's brains - BBC Future

Retail vacancies - Slate

Highway expansion and climate - LA Times

Colorado creating tenant value - Shelterforce

Four day work week - Barcelona Metropolis

VMT Place Types - CTOD

Bonus Items

Children's play and climate change - Houstonia Magazine

Stable housing for kids - NPR

NJ Transit funding - NorthJersey.com

Listener Questions + Comments

SBA Small Business resilience - SBA

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On this fourth of July special replay of Talking Headways we’re going back to Episode 382 with Alix Gould-Werth and Alex Murphy discussing their work on transportation insecurity.  Anna Zivarts mentioned this work in her book and recently on the podcast and I think it’s really important to share it again.  Hope everyone has a great holiday and we’ll see you with a new episode next week.

This week, Alix Gould-Werth of the Washington Center for Equitable Growth, and Alex Murphy, assistant professor of sociology at the University of Michigan, talk about their transportation security index.

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This week on Talking Headways we’re chatting with Tracy Hadden Loh of the Brookings Institute about impacts of the pandemic on downtowns, activity centers, and transit usage. We chat about creating activity center cluster maps and a recent report entitled Building Better on Philadelphia.

Articles of note from the discussion:

Mapping America's Activity Centers - Brookings

Ensuring the intertwined post-pandemic recoveries of downtowns and transit systems - Brookings

Building Better - Brookings

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We're Han Solo this week on Mondays at The Overhead Wire but that doesn't stop us from covering a lot of ground from the last several weeks. We chat about how climate change could impact infrastructure building, the death of Houston's University Line, and Boston's commuter rail ridership success compared to before the pandemic. We cover a lot more but listen in to find out!

Below are links to the items we discussed on today's show!

Banks realize climate risk - Wired Magazine

Risk of property insurance increase - Moving Day

Talking Headways Podcast - In a Bad State

Metro shelves University Corridor - Houston Public Media

Mexico city running under water - New York Times

Bogota water restrictions - Bloomberg CityLab

Boston commuter rail comeback - Route Fifty

Small future of housing - Fast Company

Cities come alive after hours - Washington Post

Medical insurer pledges for housing - Yahoo News

Denmark's fix for mortgage rate jumps - Business Insider

Colorado's new approach to highways - New York Times

Wyoming road failure opens housing discussion - Whitehall Ledger

Bonus Items

Health impacts of station areas - MedicalXpress

Put lazy money to work - Governing

Curbing costs from "betterments" - The Urbanist

Bike lanes reduce traffic speeds - Rutgers

Homeless Angelino takes over previous house - Los Angeles Times

Homeowners want prices to go up - The American Prospect

A conditional contract - Equipment World

$100K for every new Canadian home - Toronto Star

Connecting North and South Stations - Boston Globe

Deep sea mining not necessary - Frontier Group

Self driving, but not at dusk or dawn - Australian Broadcasting News

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This week on Talking Headways I’m joined by SPUR’s Laura Tolkoff to interview Anna Zivarts about her new book: When Driving Is Not an Option: Steering Away from Car Dependency.  We chat about non-drivers, car seats, and the week without driving.  

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This week we’re joined by Wes Marshall, Civil Engineering Professor at the University of Colorado at Denver to talk about his book Killed by a Traffic Engineer: Shattering the Delusion that Science Underlies our Transportation System. We chat about writing process, the ideas of risk and exposure, and what he learned from pouring over old transportation engineering journals.

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This week on Mondays at The Overhead Wire we go into depth on the past week in New York City and Governor Kathy Hochul's attempt to end a (de)congestion pricing program that was going to begin on June 30th. We're joined by Ben Kabak of Second Avenue Sagas to go over all the details.

Links discussed on the show: Riders Alliance | Transportation Alternatives

Also huge shout to Streetsblog NYC for some great reporting on this topic

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This week on Talking Headways we’re joined by Michael Batty, Professor of Planning at the University College London. We chat about his book The Computable City: Histories, Technologies, Stories, Predictions which includes histories of computing, smart city critiques, what the discourse on AI should really be about, and discussions on the future of urban forms.

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This week we’re joined by Cleveland journalist Ken Prendergast to talk about intercity passenger rail in greater Ohio.  We chat about the competing interests of Brightline and Amtrak and the history of passenger rail planning in the region.

Check out Ken's NEO-trans Blog

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We’re Han Solo today but no fear we’re flashing back to Episode 211 of the Talking Headways podcast where we chatted with Ralph Buehler about the topic of the German transport concept of Verkehrsverbund.  With a lot of talk of regional transportation networks and planning, I thought it might be worth a listen again five years later. 

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This week on Talking Headways we’re joined by Erin Clark, Chief Real Estate Investment Officer of the Denver Housing Authority. We chat about the redevelopment of Sun Valley, a public housing project built in the 1950s that is being reinvigorated by new investments in public housing, parks, and community.  

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This week we’re joined once again by Jarrett Walker to talk about the release of the revised edition of his influential book Human Transit.  We chat about Ursula Le Guin, expanding access to opportunity, how to think about transit riders, the free transit movement and thoughts on anger as a response to change.

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This week we're Han Solo but have a lot of news to cover including items on skateboarding, new types of segregation, third places, and some ancient ways to cool cities and streets. 

Check out the show notes below for more information. 

Notes:

Skateboarding - Reasons to be Cheerful

Cityhood - Corner Side Yard

Cleveland rail competitors - NEOtrans

Third Places - Vox

Second Best - Bloomberg CityLab

Access Maps - New Urban Order

Ancient water tunnels - Al Jazeera

Like two mortgages - Moving Day

Brightline to Vegas - Smart Cities Dive

Agglomeration after pandemic - Business Insider

Bonus Items

Harnessing land - Los Angeles Times

Interstate speed limits - Streetsblog USA

Taiwan urban mining - Time Magazine

Zoning rule in CA shut down - Los Angeles Times

Taxes raised for child care - Associated Press

CO gas truce for transit funds - CPR

Cincinnati Solar Array - WVXU

E-bikes reduce VMT - CTV News

CA TX on same path - Real Estate Economics Journal

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This week we’re joined by Megan Kimble to talk about her book City Limits: Infrastructure, Inequality, and the Future of America's Highways. We chat about the folks fighting back against highways, the history behind building big roads, and what the future looks like for advocacy.

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This week were sharing part 2 of our discussion with Jim Kumon. We chat about the challenges of development, how to crowdfund a building, coming to the end of an 80 year economic cycle, how the built environment is an outcome of how we structure capital, and how more information can make it harder to learn new things.

Some websites of note:

Electric Housing

Incremental Development Alliance

Passive House Crowdfund

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This week on Mondays at The Overhead Wire we're joined by Tracy McMillan to talk about aging in place, Nashville's big transit plan, potential Alzheimer's causes in car exhaust, Milan's famous weeks, and the Colorado legislature's search for more housing and TOD. 

Articles

Aging in place - New York Times

Nashville's transit plans - Nashville Tennessean

Alzheimer's and car exhaust - Clean Technica

Colorado density laws - Colorado Politics

Milan's commercial weeks - Domus Web

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This week we’re joined by Jim Kumon, Principal at Electric Housing, to discuss his work as a developer and urban policy educator in the Twin Cities. We chat about his sustainable development project, what St. Paul learned from Minneapolis 2040 and how zoning reform and transportation intersect.

Some websites of note:

Electric Housing

Sundial Building

Incremental Development Alliance

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This week we’re joined by Gabe Klein, Executive Director of the Joint Office of Energy and Transportation. We chat about the Joint Office’s white paper focused on best practices and solutions for electric vehicle charging entitled: Community Charging: Emerging Multifamily, Curbside, and Multimodal Practices. 

White Paper Link

The EV Charging Infrastructure Playbook - Link

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Happy Mondays!  This week on Mondays at The Overhead Wire we're Han Solo again but we have a lot to catch up on.  We're going over some of the news we didn't get to when we were away in China for a month.  We cover LA's spongy infrastructure, an idea to connect zoning reform to transportation funding, and the transition from governments incentivizing retail businesses to warehousing infrastructure.  Of course there's more but listen in to hear everything we share.

Main News

Also below is are the links to the items we covered on the show:

Los Angeles Spongy City - Wired Magazine

Local governments new plans for public housing - Vox

Toronto streetcar speeds up - Blog TO

Smaller houses for smaller prices - New York Times

Zoning for transportation funds - FAS

Canadian feds will stop investing in roads - CBC News

Cell phone distracted drivers - Vox

Rent killing sex? - Discourse Lounge

Mexico City water shortage - CNN

Retail attraction strategies - Time

Deadliest Intersections - Stacker

Reviewing smooth cities - The Nation

Transport equity tool - Streetsblog CA

Health benefits ULEZ/LTNs - Guardian | Guardian

Climate boomtowns - The Atlantic

Profit sharing for cities - Governing

The Great Asynchonization - Transportist

Death of the small car - Autopian

Fire department policy - Thesis Driven

AI Generated visuals - MIT News

Houston Mayor - Texas Monthly

Building deconstruction - Smart Cities Dive

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This week we’re joined by Sara Stickler, President and CEO of WTS International. We discuss how WTS highlights women’s expertise in transportation and how they create opportunities from mentorship to leadership and education. We also chat about some of their legislative priorities on workplace policy as well as some of the barriers women face in the field.

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This week we’re featuring a one to one conversation between Billy Terry, Executive Director of the National Transit Institute at Rutgers University, and India Birdsong Terry, General Manager and CEO of the Greater Cleveland Regional Transit Authority. They discuss leadership, hiring, and culture change at Ohio's largest transit agency. 

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This week on Mondays at The Overhead Wire Jeff talks about his month long trip to China. Subways, multi-use paths, urbanism and more! We chat about Chinese mall culture, great food, and a really cool station design in Shenzhen.

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This week we’re sharing a San Francisco Planning and Urban Research (SPUR) forum on how a statewide coalition of transit advocates were able to organize a funding bridge to avert a fiscal cliff for transit operators in the state. The discussion led by SPUR’s Laura Tolkoff, shares how they did it and what’s next.

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Laura Tolkoff / Interim Chief Policy Officer & Transportation Policy Director, SPUR      

Rebecca Long / Director, Legislation & Public Affairs, Bay Area Metro      

Cyrus Hall / Independent Sustainable Transportation Advocate      

Zack Deutsch-Gross / Policy Director, Transform CA      

Raayan Mohtashemi / Legislative Aide, Office of California State Senator Scott Wiener      

Monique Webster / Regional Government Affairs Manager, SFMTA

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This week we’re joined by Heidi Simon, Director of Thriving Communities at Smart Growth America. Heidi talks about lessons learned from Complete Streets Leadership Academies as state and local officials and advocates work to create safer streets through quick build projects.

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This week we’re joined by vehicle designer Dan Sturges to talk about his book Near to Far: A Design for a new and Equitable Transportation System. We talk about new ways of thinking about vehicle design, mobility for low density areas, as well as pop culture perceptions of small vehicles.

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This week we’re featuring a 1 to 1 conversation between Adelee Le Grand of Intellectual Concepts and Scott Wilkinson of AlphaVu. They chat about how transit agencies can get a better handle on how riders and non-riders alike feel about their service.

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This week we’re joined by skateboard advocate Aaron Breetwor, brand manager for Comet Skateboards. Aaron chats about using skateboards for transportation, designing streets for safer skateboarding, and this last years incident at the Dolores Street hill bomb.

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Prediction Time! This week on part 2 of our chat with Yonah Freemark, we score our transportation predictions from last year and make new ones for 2025. We talk about the Roosevelt Subway, Transit agency bailouts, open gangway trains, and coming transit elections and extensions. 

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This week on the Talking Headways podcast we're joined once again by transportation and housing expert Yonah Freemark. In part 1 we talk about the equitable distribution of transportation grants, potential for flex funding for transit, and our annual transit openings discussion.

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This week on Mondays at The Overhead Wire we're Han Solo.  The news continues and so do we.  We chat about productive transit subsidies, transportation flex funding, and a coming connection between trees and health!  Join us below for the show notes:

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News Items

Keys to happiness - Business Insider

Transit subsidy - Streetsblog USA

Truck insurance - Streetsblog USA

Flex funding - New York Focus

Rotterdam flood management - Guardian

Non subsidized affordable housing - CalMatters

Indian railway electrification - Energy Monitor

A mogul battles the subway - Hollywood Reporter

Alzheimers design - Guardian

Trees and health - Washington Post

Bonus Items

Bike friendly cities safe for all road users - Momentum Mag

Paris SUV Tax - Le Parisien

NYPHA bribery scandal - Motherboard

Power outages longer in poor areas - Route Fifty

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This week we’re joined by Elaine Clegg, CEO of Valley Regional Transit in Boise Idaho.  We chat about how the Boise bus system is changing, the impact of fast regional growth, energy infrastructure and favorite transportation board games.

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This week we’re joined by Dr. Kathryn Howell, Director of the National Center for Smart Growth at the University of Maryland. We talk about her daily e-bike commute, organizing around the Purple Line, the importance of eviction data, and commercial displacement.

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This week on the podcast we're Han Solo but we've got some great news and information for you including items on Beverly Hills residents being denied permits for underground pools, we've got money for transit operations in a house bill, and we're noticing the Introvert Economy is in full swing.  Come join us, we were told there would be no math in podcasting, but it turns out that's just not true.

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Main News

Transit agencies are climate agencies - Heat Map

Beverly hills permits blocked - Guardian

Federal ops funding - Smart Cities Dive

Introvert economy - Bloomberg

Environmental culture war - The Atlantic

TfL open loop - Railway Technology

Universal basic mobility - NextCity

Delivery's pollution problem - Smart Cities Dive

Insurance creeping up - Fast Company

Prevent building collapse - The Conversation

Bonus Items

Compact cities reduce emissions - ITDP

New York + pool - Dwell

Seoul climate card - ITS International

Boomer empty nesters - Redfin

Buy, don't build affordable housing - The Citizen

FEMA disaster resilience zones - Smart Cities Dive

KC free transit - KCUR

Right on red - CNN

Road diet success - WFYI Cincinnati

Barcelona sustainable journeys - Smart Cities World

Climate change potholes - BBC Future

OK City tall building - CNN

Puppies and Butterflies

Jet Lag: The Game on Youtube

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This week we’re joined by Angie Schmitt, Owner and Principal at 3MPH Planning and Consulting. We chat about changing travel behavior in cities, the impact of recent social isolation on social trust, and polarization in policy solutions.

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This week we’re joined by Beth Osborne, Vice President for Transportation and Thriving Communities at Smart Growth America.  We chat about the Greenhouse Gas Emissions Measure Rule that will make State DOTs and MPOs measure emissions on the federal highway system. We also talk about how Beth thinks we have things lining up for positive change, politics of implementing rules, and how the NTSB treats air travel and surface transportation so differently.

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This week on Mondays we're Han Solo! We've got a great set of news items for your consideration.  We talk about manufactured housing, dangerous driving, Winnipeg transit, and a Pew study about housing supply in Minneapolis with some interesting results. 

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Manufactured housing - Fast Company

Auto companies paid Tesla - Frontier Group

Emissions big wins - Wired Magazine

Winnipeg master plan - The Free Press

Dangerous driving - NYT Magazine

Land use reform works - Route Fifty

Reduce speeds for climate - Policy Options Politiques

Pittsburgh innovates on stormwater - Allegheny Front

Bonus Items

Greyhound land - CNN

Rents and death - CNBC

Vernacular cooling - Washington Post

Medellin cooling - European Sting

Why EVs haven't taken off - Business Insider

Nashville transit plan - Governing

Sugar Taxes - NPR

Agency consolidation - SF Chronicle

Atlanta e-bike incentives - Atlanta Journal Constitution

Drinking water nanoplastics - Los Angeles Times

Walmart drone deliveries - Transport Topics

Room matching - Fox 5 San Diego

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This week we’re joined by John King, Urban Design Critic at the SF Chronicle, to talk about his book Portal: San Francisco's Ferry Building and the Reinvention of American Cities. We chat about the history of the Ferry Building in San Francisco which was one of the busiest city transportation hubs in the world in the early 1900s and how the building has evolved over time parallel to the ups and downs of cities.

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We’re back from the new year but no so back that I have enough material for a Mondays show.  So as we started doing at the end of last year, I’m going to throw in a throwback Talking Headways from time to time to go back to some episodes I found interesting and perhaps mention more than a few times during current interviews.

This episode specifically is with Clayton Nall about his book The Road to Inequality: How the Federal Highway Program Polarized America and Undermined Cities and originally was released 6 years ago in July of 2018. Clayton is now a professor at UC Santa Barbara but his book and work still ring true.

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This week we’re joined by Dr. Shima Hamidi, Assistant Professor at Johns Hopkins University to talk about the report: A National Investigation of the Impacts of Lane Width on Traffic Safety.  We chat about the data they collected for 1,100 streets, how narrowing streets can create more space for bikes and peds and how the study and determined narrower lanes are safer.

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This week is the netherweek between Christmas and New Years but we’ve got a great show for you from the podcast Transit Unplugged. In this specific episode Paul Comfort interviews WMATA General Manager Randy Clarke.

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This week we’re joined once again by Congressman Earl Blumenauer of Oregon’s 3rd District. We chat about connections between health care, food and transportation, progress on the Inflation Reduction Act and IIJA infrastructure bills, and future directions for transportation funding.

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This week on Mondays at The Overhead Wire we celebrate the end of the year with stories from Colorado on the governor's transit wishes for next year, learning about the new federal Emerging Project Agreement, Salt Lake's downtown success, and how Europe wants to ban large US trucks. Hang in there with us as we finish 2023 off right.

New Stories

Colorado governor climate links - CPR

Emerging project agreements - Philadelphia Citizen

Bogota BRT politics - New York Times

Salt Lake City's booming downtown - Governing

Jakarta's sinking solution - Boomberg CityLab

US trucks in Europe - Transport & Environment

Colfax BRT land use - Denver Urbanism

Two schemes for fighting poverty - Governing

Deadly indoor air pollution - Salon

Bonus Items

Seattle climate goals don't match bike network - Urbanist

Free rides reduce emissions - CPR

Sports teams entertainment districts - Guardian

Congestion pricing - Bloomberg CityLab

Housing and death certificates - Route Fifty

MAAS tied to carbon credits - City Fix

Nighttime traffic deaths - New York Times

Canada pre-designed housing - Bloomberg CityLab

SoCal commute burden - Los Angeles Times

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This week we’re at the 2023 Mpact conference closing plenary in Phoenix Arizona. Assistant Secretary of Transportation for Transportation Policy at USDOT Christopher Coes leads a panel discussing what’s happening in central cities and how to make them thrive again.

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Karen Chapple, Ph.D., Director, School of Cities, University of  Toronto, Toronto, ON | Nichol Bordeaux, Chief Planning and Engagement Officer, Utah Transit Authority, Salt Lake City, UT | Dee Brewer, Executive Director, Downtown Alliance, Salt Lake City, UT | Emeke Moneme, President, Capitol Riverfront, Washington, DC | Ryan Johnson, Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer, Culdesac, Tempe, AZ

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This week on our Monday Replay, German Marshall Fund fellow Eric Eidlin is the host for two French High Speed Rail experts; Stephan de Fay, the Executive Director of Bordeaux Euratlantique, the public agency that is overseeing the redevelopment of Bordeaux’s main train station to accommodate several new high speed rail lines by 2020 and Etienne Tricaud, President and CEO of AREP, the French Railway’s architecture office.  Together they discuss the geography of France and its high speed rail network, the station areas as not just transportation projects but major urban projects, the experts and powers available to public agencies working on station area planning in France, the design of the station area versus that of the district as a whole, and finally the importance of having an overall vision for integrating transportation and land use in the station district.

In the second half of the episode, Eric, Stephan, and Etienne chat about how large projects in France are treated as projects of national significance and the expectations on these projects. There’s also a discussion of the Paris region’s over 1,483 mayors and the way the Grand Paris project has created better governance structures.  Finally Stephan and Etienne discuss their perceptions of Diridon station and how we can create value with these opportunities.

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This week we’re at the Mpact conference in Phoenix and joined by Ron Brooks of Accessible Avenue. We chat about service animal etiquette, the negotiation and implementation of ADA, and including people with disabilities in the equity conversation.

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This week on Mondays at The Overhead Wire we have a wide ranging news share on America's weird 30 year mortgage, how emissions would have fallen more if it weren't for SUVs, and the Mayo Clinic's idea for 'health neighborhoods'. 

News Items

Emissions without SUVs - Guardian

Overcoming urban car dependence - LSE Cities

30 year mortgages - NY Times

Mayo's health neighborhoods - MPR News

Heatherwick health street - ArchDaily

Charlotte zoning reform - Assembly NC

A land value tax - New York Times

Bonus Items

NASA warns of El Nino - Newsweek

Paris Mayor sets sights on SUV parking - BBC

Fewer Americans walking - Marketplace

Rule finalized on DOT emissions data collection - Route Fifty

Costs to Washington DOT for salmon - Seattle Times

Place to work, but not place to live - Washington Post

San Diego's wild ADU laws - CalMatters

Houston transportation leaders getting more diverse - Houston Chronicle

Library lends bike share memberships - Yale Climate Connections

Justice 40 in the IRA - The Verge

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This week we’re at the Mpact conference in Phoenix Arizona and joined by Tom Brennan, Director of Business Strategy at Nelson Nygaard. We talk about the sexy world of bus speed and reliability,  how agency can invest for effectiveness, and future proofing routes for the long term.

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Bonus Episode! This week on Talking Headways we’re featuring an episode of Booked on Planning, a podcast where Stephanie Rouse and Jennifer Hiatt dive deep into books for the Nebraska Chapter of the APA. This time they are joined by Alex Kreiger, author of City on a Hill.

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This week on Talking Headways we’re joined by author Ben Goldfarb to talk about his book, Crossings: How Road Ecology is Shaping the Future of Our Planet. We discuss how roads cut off ecosystems, wildlife crossings, and animal mobility at different scales.

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This week on Mondays at The Overhead Wire, we're Han Solo. But that doesn't preclude us from sharing the news from the last few weeks including items on work from home serendipity, weaponizing environmental law, and the suspension of Cruise self driving vehicles. Listen in below and check out the show notes below the fold.

Show Notes

Main Items

City serendipity - New York Times

Weaponizing environmental law - Governing

DMV revokes Cruise license - Motherboard

Stanford can't stop people driving alone - Almanac

Curb management - CNN

Norway looks away from EVs - Vox

Halifax waterfront - Happy Cities

Highway cap pollution - CPR

Wawa design - Slate

Austin parking minimums - Texas Tribune

Essen green city - BBC Travel

Can seawalls save us? New Yorker

Bonus Items

Heart rate data for cycling - Global Cycling Network

Wendy's redesign for delivery era - Fast Company

Black workers commute longer - Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia

Pollution rule - Grist

ADUs for mortgages - HUD

Desert city piping water from Mexico - Guardian

$6.6B subway - New York Post

Nightmare hurricanes - Washington Post

CTC chair ok with highway widening - Streetsblog CA

LA homeless real estate agent - NPR

Moving the redwoods - NYT Magazine

Cars cancelling energy savings - KPBS

Boulder deconstructs hospital - Colorado Sun

Builder's Remedy unintended consequence - San Jose Mercury News

EPA reviews salmon killing tire chemical - Transport Topics

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This week we’re joined by Danielle Arigoni, Managing Director for Policy and Solutions at The National Housing Trust.  We chat about Danielle’s new book Climate Resilience for an Aging Nation as well as housing policy that benefits everyone.

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This week we’re joined by transit expert and former general manager for three transit systems Ron Kilcoyne. Ron joins us to talk about the importance of running frequent transit service in order to attract riders and how agencies in the Bay Area are underserving the population.

Find Ron's Streetsblog SF piece here and the report he did for Seamless Bay Area. If you want to message Ron, you can do so at his email address rkilcoyne@tmdinc.net. 

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This week we're chatting with professor Des Fitzgerald about his new book The Living City: Why Cities Don't Need to Be Green to Be Great. We chat about what trees mean to people, the proliferation of moguls that want to build new cities, and the idea of what makes the good city.

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This week we’re joined by Chris Fabian of Resource X to talk about his work on priority based budgeting. We discuss how cities create budgets that reflect their policy goals and what it takes to find resources for big ideas.

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This week on the Mondays show we're Han Solo! But that doesn't stop us from sharing a lot of news!  The Prime Minister of England has pulled the plug on high speed rail, what the pandemic drop in traffic means for access, designing for autism and much much more!

News Items

Designing for autism - Metropolis Magazine

Pandemic increases in access - University of Minnesota

Starter cars disappearing - Discourse Magazine

Utilities not fans of solar - Mother Jones

Caltrans official silenced - Politico | LA Times

Cities with fastest and slowest traffic - Time Magazine

Abandoned lands restoring biodiversity - Yale e360

Bonus Items

Mold with floods - Grist

Rishi kills HSR - Guardian

Redfin leaves National Association of Realtors - New York Times

Leaving HGAC could cost Houston - Houston Public Media

Noise cameras - The Guardian

Singapore license costs - CNN

UK Satellites map heat - BBC

BART subway to cost $12B - Bloomberg CityLab

Letting people drink on the street - Governing

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This week we’re joined by Abby Thorne-Lyman, Former Director of Real Estate at BART, to talk about BART’s development projects and priorities, and the importance of real estate to BART’s future. 

Today's podcast was produced in partnership with Mpact. Learn more about the work they do and annual conference at http://mpactmobility.org

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This week we’re joined by Kari Watkins  and Dave Ederer to talk about their paper The Safe Systems Pyramid: A New Framework for Traffic Safety. We talk about the connections between transportation and public health and how it allows us to think differently about transportation safety.

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This week on the show we catch up on some of the news from the last month and go over what's coming up on the Talking Headways podcast. We talk about post-pandemic transportation, sea level rise impacts on shipping and drinking water, and the world's smallest skyscraper. 

Show Note Links Below

SF NIMBYs watch out - SF Chronicle

Bike tunnel - Bloomberg CityLab

Colorado rail service - Governing

World's smallest skyscraper - City Monitor

Copenhagen sponge city - Spiegel International

Rethinking transport - Brookings

Bonus Items

Commute is employee wish - Globe Street

Transit agencies fewer commuters - Governing

Hybrid work is messy - Newsweek

Stuttgart 21 dig over - Railtech

Stuttgart 21 - DB

Panama Canal shipping stuck - NBC News

Low Mississippi less shipping - USA Today

Mississippi saltwater incursion - New York Times

Medicaid for housing - Health Affairs

Grocery delivery not less driving - Streetsblog USA

Food trucks are hot - Grist

City pollution seen on satellite - Houston Public Media

Vienna transit parcel delivery - Eltis

Japan birth rate - LA Times

Housing is a labor issue - Hamilton Nolan

Accessible design standards - Streetsblog USA

Conspiracy theory pushback - Politico

Electric Vehicle Outlook - Bloomberg 

LA Metro billboards - Government Technology

Week without driving - Bloomberg CityLab

Belgium insurance studies air pollution - Guardian

EV charging stations flaw for transition - Slate

Truck stops want EV time - Jalopnik

Charger oriented development - Smart Growth America

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This week we’re joined by Bob Searns to talk about his book Beyond Greenways: The Next Step for City Trails and Walking Routes. We talk about grand ideas for walking trails that circle whole regions and more local routes that make up a new mode of green infrastructure in cities.

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This week we’re joined by Phoenix community builder Tim Sprague. We chat about supporting local culture through development projects and the importance of sustainable development and transportation.

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This week on Mondays at The Overhead Wire we're joined by Carter Lavin to talk about the city dreams of tech moguls, government capacity, public housing that doesn't want to be called that, designing delivery trucks and much much more!

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Silicon valley elites want a new city - Fortune via Bloomberg

Importance of state capacity - The American Prospect

Rise of Ecovillages - Noema Magazine

Don't call it public housing - New York Times

A better delivery truck - Fast Company

Depaving cities - Nexus Media News

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French town has road crossing signs for house cats - Mayor.eu

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This week we’re joined by Zack Subin of the Terner Center for Housing Innovation and Ben Holland of the Rocky Mountain Institute. Ben and Zack join us to talk about their report Urban Land Use Reform on the importance of land use in reducing travel and emissions.

Research Notes:

• Review of recent state land use legislation from Mercatus, including highlighting the WA package, and earlier this year from Terner
• Review of recent trends in VMT/capita by state: WA at head of the pack
• Jenny Schuetz' Brookings blog summary of her book, which includes a discussion of housing reforms across levels of government and political economy considerations
  • More discussion of the rationale for state governments to lead in this Niskanen Center report
• Thea Riofrancos et al and UC Davis report on lithium requirements to decarbonize US transportation
• Shane Phillips' paper on the case for broad upzoning, summarized by Todd Litman in Planetizen
• Coolclimate CA planning scenarios from Chris Jones's team, with linked paper, and 2022 update featured in the NY Times.

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This week we’re sharing a panel discussion on how California High Speed Rail could be sped up. Hosted by Rodger Rudick of Streetsblog SF, Climate Advocate Carter Lavin, Eric Eidlin, Station Planning Manager for the City of San Jose, and Boris Lipkin of the California High Speed Rail Authority discuss what it would take to get the project done faster and all the potential benefits.

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This week on Mondays we're joined by Kevin DeGood of The Center for American Progress to talk about a study by NCDOT and NC State on Connected Autonomous Vehicles at Intersections.  This leads into a discussion about policy related to autonomous vehicles and saturation. It's not our usual Mondays news format but it's a shorter show and gets right to the point!

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This week we’re joined by Dr. Robert Blaine of the National League of Cities. We talk about their work helping smaller cities apply for federal infrastructure grants through a bootcamp program and chat about local grant writing capacity and what success looks like.

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This week we’re joined by Yvonne Yeung to talk about ULI’s recent report, Building 15 Minute Communities: a Leadership Guide. We chat about how the guide can help create good development that reduces the need to drive, and supports our climate emissions reduction goals.

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This week Ryan Wozniak joins the podcast to talk about Phoenix transportation policy, why people are moving to the sunbelt, truth in car advertising, Philly's plans for its own high line and much more!

News Items

LA giving out ADU plans - Dwell Magazine

More Californians living in cars - The Atlantic

Truth in car ads - Policy Options Politiques

Moving to the sunbelt - The Atlantic

Philly's high line - Philadelphia Inquirer

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This week we’re listening in to PART 2 of a one to one conversation between David Longoria of LISC in Phoenix and Ryan Winkle of RAIL CDC. They discuss the community work they are doing in Mesa along the light rail line and how they respond to unforeseen outcomes.

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This week we’re listening in to PART 1 of a one to one conversation between David Longoria of LISC in Phoenix and Ryan Winkle of RAIL CDC. They discuss the community work they are doing in Mesa along the light rail line and the impact their work has on local businesses.

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This week on Mondays we're joined by Chrissy Mancini Nichols to talk about a whole host of transportation topics including Lyft's potential sale of its bike share business, how housing affects dating, congestion pricing politics and more!

Below are links to the articles we talked about on the show.

Lyft wants out of bike share - Motherboard

A Jane Austen housing auction - Guardian

New Jersey sues over congestion pricing - Streetsblog NYC

FTA says no transit money for triangle rail - News and Observer

Miyawaki method - Fair Planet

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This week we’re joined once more by Susan Crawford, author and Harvard Law Professor to talk about her new book, Charleston: Race, Water, and the Coming Storm. Susan chats with us about sea level rise, city solutions, and opportunities to rethink our responses.

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This week on Mondays at The Overhead Wire we delve into sameness around the world, climate change extremes, and Amsterdam's red light district. 

Main Links

City sameness - Dezeen

Paris gets smart on heat - Yale e360

Hurricane Ian wiped out middle class - Politico

Sewers can't handle rain - Scientific American

Biased livability rankings - The Conversation

Amsterdam's red light controversy - Time

Bonus Items

Skywells - BBC Future

Miami forgets gas tax - Governing

Spain elections impact on active transport - Reuters

Portland street response - Oregon Public Radio

House R's want to cut budgets - Washington Post

Insurance rates threaten new development - Smart Cities Dive

New Tampa transport plan - That's So Tampa

Hawaii housing plans - Civil Beat

Bike bill lawsuit - Bike Portland

Wildfire adapted communities - Sightline

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This week we’re chatting with David Wasserman of Alta Planning and Mike Flaxman of Heavy.AI about generative artificial intelligence. We chat about what generative AI is and how it is trained, and some of the ways it could be used or misused in a planning and transportation context.

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Augmented: Planners in an Era of Generative AI - APA

Open Letter on Generative AI & Ethical Planning - APA Technology Division

Datasets for Datasheets - Cornell Arxiv

Automating Zoning Data Collection - Urban Institute

Bias in, Bias out - Yale Law Journal

Can Language Models Be Too Big? - ACM Digital Library

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This week we’re joined by Paula DiPerna to talk about her book Pricing the Priceless: The Financial Transformation to Value the Planet, Solve the Climate Crisis, and Protect Our Most Precious Assets. We chat about how nature is working for us for free and how we should value those services as well as the financial mechanisms we could use to save the planet. She also shares how she got the Vatican to pledge to go net zero and lessons from working with Jacques Cousteau.

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This week on the podcast we are solo and chatting about a lot of different topics from banning drive thrus to AI bias, to impacts of climate change. We also dive into the week of the cone here in San Francisco. 

News Items

Drive thrus banned - CNN

AI makes housing crisis worse - The Lever

Building based on old climate data - Scientific American

Climate change underground - Scientific American

Bus stops and playgrounds too hot - Vox

BIDS go in on bike lanes - Bloomberg CityLab

Cones on AVs - SFist

Proximity important in travel - Brookings

PPP caused housing inflation? - Texas Standard

Bonus Items

NY vehicle fees by weight? - Curbed

Congestion pricing forward in NY - New York Times

Air pollution increased pandemic aid - Guardian

Data on outdoor dining - Luskin School of Public Affairs

Portland pauses/stops highways - Portland Mercury

Toronto's new bike mayor - Toronto Star

People want walkable communities - NAR

Extra degree increased burn areas - El Pais

Industrial transition - Philadelphia Citizen

Weirdos revive cities - PubliCola

Hudson tunnel funded - New York Times

Second avenue subway part 2 - Bloomberg CityLab

UDOT chooses gondola - Deseret News

A bill to repair nature - New York Times

Puppies and Butterflies 

Berkeley grad flies to school - USA Today

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This week we’re joined by Mike Warren, Senior Vice President at WSP. Mike chats with us about road user charging including how the discussion has changed over the last decade and the idea of treating roads as a utility by paying for driving by the mile. We also discuss policy considerations including reducing driving and congestion, privacy considerations, and replacing existing use taxes.

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This week we're joined by Hussein Mahfouz of Transport for Cairo and Adham Kalila of Streetlight Data to talk about their new report created for NUMO, All Possible Commutes: How Micromobility and Realistic Car Travel Times Impact Accessibility Analysis. We learn about measuring car travel more accurately, how micromobility can improve accessibility, and a bit about transportation in the Cairo metro region.

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This week we’re joined by Yale Law professor David Schleicher to talk about his new book, In a Bad State: Responding to State and Local Budget Crises. We chat about how historic fiscal crisis shape similar responses today and how infrastructure funding plays out in the United States.

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This week we're Han Solo again, but we've got some interesting studies on homelessness and managed retreat from flooding. We also share some stories on Arizona's transportation tax, and research on social inclusion and lack of transportation options. Listen in!

Main Items

Court decision that changed homelessness - Vox

CA Homelessness findings - LA Times

Buyouts and white flight - Grist

Social exclusion and transport - Journal of Transport Geography

E-bike fires - NY Times

Vermont zoning reform - CNU Public Square

Paris vs London - Guardian

AZ transportation tax - Daily Star

Bonus Items

10% of driving is parking cruising - Parking Reform Network

Las Vegas water - Pro Publica

London truck safety - Transport Technology Today

Green bank - Boston Herald

Inflation reduction act direct pay - The American Prospect

Red line is back - Washington Post

Municipal Broadband - The Verge

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This week we’re joined by Ben Wilson to talk about his most recent book Urban Jungle: The History and Future of Nature in the City. We chat about how plants took root in the rubble of wars and blank spaces and how cities could be more circular and sustainable.

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This week we’re chatting with Alex Brennan, Executive Director of Futurewise in Washington State. We chat about this most recent legislative session and bills on missing middle housing, climate change, and TOD.

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This week on Mondays at The Overhead Wire we're Han Solo but that doesn't stop us from talking about how to get groceries home without a car, how insurance could save us from climate catastrophe, and whether Houston should ditch its MPO to get better representation.

Main News

Arizona water shorts development - AP

Biometrics reveal preferences - Scientific American

Personal bubbles - The New Republic

Mesa AZ autism friendly city - BBC

Houston's bad MPO represenation - Urban Edge

Insurance Politics - How Things Work

La Sombrita - Streetsblog LA

Tax vehicles by weight - Curbed

Third places are important - Yes! Magazine

Bonus Items

Secondary overseas car market - CNN

Minnesota transport deal - MinnPost

Ford CEO says batteries fiscally unsustainable - The Verge

America needs a road review - Streetsblog USA

Depression more common in burbs - Conversation

Why do urban stores stay empty - JCHS

Emergency braking rules - WaPo

Conflict and biking - Cycling Weekly

Traffic cop sues city - Guardian

Gun violence a public health issue - Guardian

Ridership up on Tube, Amtrak - BBC | Reuters

Puppies and Butterflies

Dumb grocery argument - The Urbanist

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This week we chat with Melanie Piana, the Mayor of Ferndale Michigan.  We chat about her city’s Woodward Avenue road diet, the city’s bike plans, and how parking is part of too many urban issues.

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This week we’re joined by Tufts professor Justin Hollander to talk about his new book The First City on Mars: An Urban Planner's Guide to Settling the Red Planet. We talk about the importance of urban planners in thinking about cities on Mars, what we can learn from Antarctica and the International Space Station, and what a Mars metro region might look like.

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This week we’re joined by the Head of Zipcar, Angelo Adams. We talk about how Zipcar gets parking spaces, how they find customers, the benefits of car sharing and how the company's biggest competitor is car ownership.

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This week on Mondays at The Overhead Wire we're joined by Chrissy Mancini Nichols to cover a whole host of topics including urban migration patterns, New York congestion pricing, the impacts of e-commerce warehouses and much more!

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This week we’re chatting with Meghna Khanna of LA Metro and Scarlett DeLeon of the Alliance for Community Transit LA about women who ride transit. We talk about LA Metro’s first of its kind Gender Action Plan and ACT LA’s Metro as Sanctuary report.

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This week we’re joined by Setha Low to talk about her book Why Public Space Matters. We chat about using ethnography to understand space, emotional connections, and transforming the world through public space.

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This week on Mondays at The Overhead Wire we're joined by James Llamas of TEI Inc to discuss a whole raft of issues including tiny Japanese Trucks, the goings on of the Texas Transportation Commission, and population impacts of the pandemic. 

News Items

The end of park and ride? - Seattle Transit Blog

Remote work and transit - Politico

Importing tiny trucks - The Economist

Pandemic population - Brookings

Pandemic Movement - MIT News

CalEnviroScreen - Cal EPA

Taking Back Texas Roads - Texas Observer

Free TXDOT - Houston Chronicle

TTI traffic intersection - NBC College Station

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Houston's new parking requirements for parking spaces - The Onion

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May the 4th be with you!  This week my good friend Jeff Munowitch of Populus is joining the show to talk about Star Wars! We talk about the top five transportation modes and our top five cities in a galaxy far far away.  Which ideas from science fantasy could be in our future?

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This week we’re joined by Mike Salisbury of Denver’s Office of Climate Action, Sustainability & Resiliency to talk about the city’s E-bike rebate program. We talk about funding, e-bikes vs electric cars, and how the rebates are distributed.

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This week we're Han Solo but we have a lot to talk about! Donut shop murals spark free speech fights, we think more about the concept of time, and work from home's effects on the public sector. Of course there's much more and we hope you join us as we share the news.

Below are links to all the news we chat about on the show this week.

News Items

Donuts and free speech - AP

Time spent, wasted - The New Republic

Services curtailed as workers are at home - Pro Public

Remote work and costs of government - Governing

Bike share when Lyft is gone - Curbed

Ithaca electric city - Rolling Stone

Paris kicked out cars - Slate

Car Creditocracy - Public Books

Buses alleviate unemployment, poverty - Abstract | Full

Focus on transit service - Vox

Bonus Items

Mitt Romney's bike opinions - Bicycling Magazine

Wild toileting - Guardian

SUVs could collapse garages - The Drive

Rich people stealing water - Guardian

Barcelona blocks boost health - Politico EU

Japan's 10m empty houses - New York Times

Longest bike tunnel - CNN Travel

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This week we’re joined by Hamilton Steimer of the World Resources Institute to talk about their report: Zero-emission Delivery Zones: A New Way to Cut Traffic, Air Pollution and Greenhouse Gases. We chat about electrification of fleets, what cities have the best programs for ZEDZ, and the current moment in urban delivery.

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This week we’re joined by Trevor Latimer to talk about his book Small Isn’t Beautiful: The Case Against Localism. We chat about what localism is and how its geographically defined, as well as why “leave if you don’t like it” is disingenuous.

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This week we’re joined by Andrew Jones, Program director for the Uptown and Downtown Oakland Community Benefits District. We chat about urban place management, how urban spaces are taken care of, and what it takes to keep them vibrant and engaging.

Today's podcast was produced in partnership with Mpact

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This week Yonah Freemark of the Urban Institute is BACK for the Annual Prediction Show.  This year we chat about our predictions from last year and next year of course, but also regional rail in France, interesting transportation projects happening around the world, and the high cost and management of big transit projects.

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This week on the show we're Han Solo again but we have a lot of topics to cover! Do Americans have an apartment phobia, should bedrooms have windows, and what's the newest trends in mapping sidewalks? All these and more on the show this week!

Show notes below:

THE NEWS

Apartment phobia - New York Magazine Intelligencer

Can't afford to drive - Salon

Windowless bedrooms - The Nation

Empowering children with walking - The Conversation

SEPTA kills King of Prussia rail - Philadelphia Inquirer

Red states fight blue cities - FiveThirtyEight

Mapping city sidewalks - MIT News

Second life for car batteries - Reasons to be Cheerful

BONUS ITEMS

Design not cops - Rocky Mountain PBS

A better MaaS - ITS International

Inflation driven by housing - Marketplace

Turkey earthquake - New York Times

Housing prescribed by doctors - LA Times

Transport an patient care - Talking Headways

Jones Act causes traffic - The Atlantic

Kansas City eviction fix - KCUR

Catching fog in Lima Peru - National Geographic

Learning from informal settlement - UCLA News

Traffic noise, blood pressure increase - CNN

Puppies and Butterflies

Fajitas - Food Network

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This week we’re joined by David Hensher, Director of the Institute of Transport and Logistics Studies at the University of Sydney. David chats about how to fix Mobility as a Service and proposes a new way to reduce travel and emissions called  Mobility as a Feature.

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This week we’re joined by Oregon Metro Council President Lynn Peterson to talk about her book Roadways for People: Rethinking Transportation Planning and Engineering. We chat about better project scoping, capacity building, engineers going to actually walk and bike their project areas, and highway expansion in cities.

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