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Talking Headways: A Streetsblog Podcast

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A weekly podcast about the intersection between sustainable transportation, urban planning, and economic development. Hosted by Jeff Wood of The Overhead Wire.
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Episodes

Episode 107: Change in the Mile High City

This week we’re joined by David Sachs of Streetsblog Denver. David talks about the amazing advocacy landscape in the city as well as a number of specific projects and initiatives that are happening in the city from the controversial widening of I-70 to the possibility of a new transportation department and the rethinking of the 16th street bus mall.

Jul 14, 201633 min

Episode 106: An Alternative Future for Mobility

This week we're joined by Paul Mackie of Mobility Lab, to talk about transportation demand management (TDM) and mobility in cities. We discuss how cities are not prepared for new mobility and the need to share data and plan for different mobility outcomes.

Jul 07, 201638 min

Episode 105: Color Your City Outside the Lines

This week we’re joined by cartographer Gretchen Peterson to talk about map making as well as her new book, City Maps: A Coloring Book for Adults. We talk about why she designed the book and why the cities she chose to display were included.

Jun 23, 201635 min

Episode 104: Ghosts of Motordom's Past and Future

This week we replay the morning plenary broadcast live from the Denver Live.Ride.Share conference that happened last month. Jill Locantore of WalkDenver introduces University of Virginia Professor Peter Norton, author of Fighting Traffic who discusses how automobiles were sold to the public and Gabe Klein, former DOT Director in Washington DC and Chicago who talks about what he believes their future might be. Peter’s talk is at the 5 minute mark and Gabe’s starts at 28:15. Questions from the aud...

Jun 16, 20161 hr 19 min

Episode 103: Sharing (Your Bike, Car, Bus) is Caring

This week we’re chatting with Sharon Feigon of the Shared Use Mobility Center. I ask what shared use mobility is and we talk about the growth of bike share, car share, ride hailing, and more.

Jun 09, 201636 min

Episode 102: Changing the Federal Rules

This week I’m joined by Kevin DeGood of The Center for American Progress and Deron Lovaas of NRDC to talk about rules proposed by the Federal Highway Administration to measure congestion and greenhouse gas emissions.

Jun 02, 201639 min

Episode 101: Moneyball for Transit

This week we’re joined by Laurel Paget-Seekins to talk about her work as a transit activist in Atlanta, her thinking about transit networks from her time in Santiago Chile, and her current work on data collection and dissemination as the Director of Strategic Initiatives at the MBTA in Boston.

May 26, 201629 min

Episode 100: Moving Sidewalks with Tanya Snyder

This week we’re joined by Tanya Snyder to look back a bit on 100 episodes of the Talking Headways Podcast. We also talk about DC Metro, Moving Sidewalks, and your transportation habits when you move to a new house.

May 13, 201634 min

Episode 99: It Costs More to Drive 'Till You Qualify

This week we’re joined by Shima Hamidi, Reid Ewing, and John Renne to talk about their paper “How Affordable is HUD Affordable Housing?” in the Journal Housing Policy Debate which discusses the issue of housing and transportation affordability.

May 05, 201647 min

Episode 98: A Shared Space Revolution

This week we’re joined by Robert Ping, The Executive Director of the Walkable and Livable Communities Institute. We talk about complete streets, active living, and Pittsburgh's plans for shared space.

Apr 28, 201637 min

Episode 95: American Walking and Biking Benchmarked

This week we’re joined by Christy Kwan, Interim Executive Director of the Alliance for Biking and Walking to talk about their bi-annual national Benchmarking Report. We talk about the awesome information in the report and why local activists might use it to advocate for better communities.

Mar 31, 201637 min

Episode 94: Measuring Walkability on the Wasatch Front

This week we’re joined by Muriel Xochimitl, Jon Larsen, and Callie New of the Wasatch Front Regional Council MPO in Utah to talk about their new interactive story map tool measuring urban street design that took the walkability research of Reid Ewing and Otto Clement at the University of Utah and turned it into a data rich map the team hopes will become a standard measure for all streets.

Mar 17, 201636 min

Episode 86: The Carpool Reimagined

Rob Sadow of the carpool app Scoop talks about the future of transportation and how his app works for businesses wanting more employees to ride to work together.

Jan 06, 201636 min

Episode 84: Houston Won't Be "Planning by Pitchfork" Anymore

This week we’re chatting with Jay Crossley of Houston Tomorrow and Streetsblog Texas. On September 30th Houston passed a new comprehensive plan and ceased to be the largest city in the United States without one. Plan Houston was over 14 years in the making and allows Houston to stop as Jay says “Plan by Pitchfork”.

Dec 10, 201532 min
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