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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 82: Mondays at The Overhead Wire - Donuts and Freeways

This week on the show Jeff talks about the Amsterdam donut model of economics, how Denver is using medical professionals to respond to some police calls, how Nevada might allow tech companies to create cities and obsession with new towns, expanding I-45 in Houston, and a better way to do for-profit affordable housing in Charlotte....

Feb 16, 202134 min

Episode 320: Mopeds to Go

This week we’re joined by Haley Rubinson, Vice President of Business Development at Revel . We talk about why mopeds work for urban mobility, the dominance of automobiles in discussions about transportation, and if land use plays a part in adoption trends.

Feb 11, 202137 min

Episode 319: Shared Mobility, Vaccines, Vacations

This week we’re again joined by Shared Use Mobility Center Founder in Residence Sharon Feigon . Sharon talks with us about what she hopes the focus will be for the next administration, how shared mobility has fared during the pandemic, and her plans for the future.

Feb 04, 202148 min

Episode 318: Open Source Electric Bus

This week we’re joined by Erica Eggleton , a PhD Candidate at the University of Washington to chat about her work on Route Dynamics , an open source program that estimates the energy demand for electric bus routes run by King County Metro. We talk about how Route Dynamics calculates electric bus energy consumption and how it might be useful to transit agencies....

Jan 28, 202130 min

Episode 80: Mondays at The Overhead Wire - Addicted to Linked In

This week on the Mondays show Dawn Miller , VP for Policy and Partnerships at Coord and Chrissy Mancini Nichols join the show. We chat about Mayor Pete's Senate hearing , Sacramento's move away from single family zoning, and Dallas' new mobility plan . We also talk a bit about DOT political appointments and Bernie's Wild Ride. Follow us on twitter @theoverheadwire Support us at http://patreon.com/theoverheadwire Get a Bus Only Scarf at http://theoverheadwire.com...

Jan 26, 20211 hr 9 min

Episode 317: Transportation and Law Part 2

This week we’re headed back to the Iowa Law Review’s Symposium The Future of Law and Transportation. In Part 2 of this series, Professor Jonathan Levine moderates a panel of four including Professor David Prytherch, Professor Jamila Jefferson-Jones, Professor Tara Goddard, and Professor Vanessa Casado Perez on the topic of Rights of Way and Public Space.

Jan 21, 202158 min

Episode 79: Mondays at The Overhead Wire - The Stop Sign Line

This week Tracy McMillan joins the show to chat about what a Biden Administration can do for localities, climate change in the Great Lakes, Paris' participatory budget, and what the commute means to everyone. Odds and Ends Using Federal Power to liberate localities - Washington Monthly Stop lines don't stop traffic - Route Fifty Paris' participatory budget - City Monitor Climate change and winter festivals - Detroit Free Press | National Geographic Did the pandemic kill the commute? - City Lab S...

Jan 19, 20211 hr 9 min

Episode 316: Intro to the City

This week we’re joined by Professor Sean Benesh to talk about his new book Intro to the City. We chat about his love of Pre-Colombian cities, how being an ordained pastor connects to his urban thinking, and some thoughts about opening your mind when it comes to place. Follow us @theoverheadwire on twitter Support the pod on Patreon http://patreon.com/theoverheadwire

Jan 14, 202133 min

Episode 315: The Answer is the Arterial

This week we’re going back to the 2020 Rail~Volution conference where Peter Calthorpe gave the keynote speech with Allison Brooks of the Bay Area Regional Collaborative. They discuss the next generation of TOD and housing on major arterials.

Jan 07, 20211 hr

Replay: The First Shoupista

This week we're replaying one of our most popular episodes in the last few years. Patrick Siegman of Siegman & Associates joins the podcast for spirited discussion about parking. We chat about the etymology of the word parking, the legend that is Donald Shoup, and why the topic of parking gets so personal.

Dec 24, 202049 min

Episode 78: Mondays at the Overhead Wire - Mayor Pete

This week Chrissy Mancini Nichols and Jerome Horne join the show to talk about the nomination of former South Bend Indiana Mayor Pete Buttigieg to the post of Transportation Secretary. That's it, that's the topic on this end of the year Mondays at The Overhead Wire. For those interested in some of the items I mentioned in the show to check out, the links are below. Mexico's Right to Mobility Amendment - City Fix Oil Companies and Car Companies Turn - The Atlantic Climate Warnings on Gas Pumps - ...

Dec 22, 202058 min

Episode 314: Infrastructure Only Limited by Our Imagination

This week we’re talking with Katy Knight, Executive Director of the Siegel Family Endowment. We chat about the endowment’s recent Infrastructure report entitled Rebuilding America: The Road Ahead which discusses a future where digital, physical, and social infrastructure connect. Katy talks with us about the importance of governance, the two way conversations we should be having with elected officials, distributing investments intelligently, and the importance of greater thinking about social in...

Dec 17, 202045 min

Episode 313: Location Does Matter

This week we’re joined by Carrie Makarewicz , Assistant Professor at the University of Colorado at Denver, Prentiss Dantzler , Assistant Professor at Georgia State University, and Arlie Adkins , Associate Professor at The University of Arizona to talk about their paper in Housing Policy Debate : Another Look at Location Affordability: Understanding the Detailed Effects of Income and Urban Form on Housing and Transportation Expenditures. The paper looks at how households with varied incomes spend...

Dec 10, 202056 min

Episode 77: Mondays at The Overhead Wire - Zero Fares, Zero Emissions, Zero Losses

This week on the Mondays show we're back on Election Night! Danny Katz of Colorado PIRG learns live on the air that his ballot measure won and Missoula Montana Mountain Line GM Corey Aldridge tells us all about their zero fare program, their coming zero emissions buses, and what an election win (they won!) would mean for the transit agency.

Dec 08, 202046 min

Episode 312: Building Community in North Philly

This week on the podcast, Nilda Ruiz and Rose Gray of Asociación Puertorriqueños en Marcha (APM) join the show to talk about how they’ve been able to build community through TOD while promoting health, wellness, and a green future.

Dec 03, 202054 min

Episode 311: The Energy Efficiency Megatrend

This week we’re joined by Roger Duncan to talk about his new book with Co-Author Michael Webber called T he Future of Transportation, Buildings, and Power . We chat about buildings can get to net zero energy, the changing structure of public utilities, and the energy efficiency megatrend.

Nov 19, 202035 min

Episode 75: Mondays at The Overhead Wire - Lessons from the Field

Again our friends from election night! That’s right, we’re sharing some of our election night shenanigans from the live stream we did on YouTube. You can still find the original 7 hour video there to see everyone’s backgrounds and setups but we’re cutting it down here into some more bite size bits. On this Mondays we’re sharing our discussions with Odetta Macleish White from the Transformation Alliance in Atlanta, Robin Hutcheson of the City of Minneapolis, and Darnell Grisby from Transform . An...

Nov 17, 20201 hr 20 min

Episode 310: Transportation and Law Part 1

This week we’re headed to the Iowa Law Review’s Symposium "The Future of Law and Transportation". In this episode, we are sharing a panel on transportation and land use featuring Jonathan Levine, Audrey McFarlane, and Sara Bronin. Jonathan Levine of the Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning at the University of Michigan discusses his paper ‘Transportation Policy Entrenchment: Institutional Barriers to Accessibility Based Planning” Audrey McFarlane, Associate Dean of Faculty Research...

Nov 12, 202051 min

Episode 74: Mondays at the Overhead Wire - Texas Election Night

This week on Mondays we're taking some audio from our election night live stream and sharing it with folks. Chrissy Mancini Nichols and Jerome Horne join us on election night as we talked with local agency folks in Texas about their ballot measures.

Nov 10, 202053 min

Episode 309: From Docked to Dockless

This week we’re joined by Kyle Rowe, Global Head of Government Partnerships at SPIN. We chat with Kyle about his work with Seattle DOT transitioning from docked to dockless bike share, the impact of ride hailing on micromobility adoption, and the future of his industry. Follow us on twitter @theoverheadwire Support us on Patreon at http://patreon.com/theoverheadwire

Nov 05, 202042 min

Series Preview: Densely Speaking - Infrastructure Costs

This week we're doing another series preview sharing a podcast we enjoy here at The Overhead Wire. Densely Speaking is a podcast by Jeffrey Lin and Greg Shill discussing cities, economics and law. You can subscribe to Densely Speaking wherever you get your podcasts. On this episode! Professor Leah Brooks, economist and Associate Professor of Public Policy and Public Affairs at the George Washington University's Trachtenberg School of Public Policy and Public Affairs, joins the show to discuss In...

Nov 03, 20201 hr

Episode 308: Disabled by a World Full of Stairs

This week we’re joined by Sara Hendren, author of the book What Can a Body Do? How We Meet the Built World . Sara chats with us about how we think and talk about disability, reframing independent living, and designing a humane world for everyone.

Oct 29, 202048 min

Episode 73: Mondays at The Overhead Wire - Garfield Halloween

This week we're on our own as we prepare for our election night extravaganza! We cover Charlotte's City Council squabbles, take a trip to Helsinki, and think about how pollution causes neurodegenerative diseases. Odds and Ends Charlotte council can't get along - Charlotte Agenda Personal sustainability in Helsinki - New York Times Air pollution and children's brains - Guardian A path to progressive transport - Transport Politic Elon's tunnel in Vegas won't hit targets - Tech Crunch Puppies and B...

Oct 27, 202031 min

Episode 307: The Ghost Road

This week we’re chatting with Anthony Townsend about his book Ghost Road: Beyond The Driverless Car. We talk about the potential scary future financialization of transportation could create, how the pandemic has shot delivery automation into the future, and what the potential future of self driving vehicles could mean for urban form.

Oct 22, 202048 min

Episode 306: Delivering Goods Autonomously

This week we’re joined by Matthew Lipka, Head of Policy at Nuro . We chat about how autonomous delivery can help get people goods they need, the difference between transporting goods and people, and whether people can still pick their own produce.

Oct 15, 202035 min

Episode 72: Mondays at The Overhead Wire - Zero Emissions Neighborhood

This week we're solo as we bring you some news from the last couple of weeks. Small business suffering, zero emissions neighborhoods, and a Venice that doesn't flood. Odds and Ends Self driving years away - ReCode Connecticut zoning challenged - CT Mirror Zero emissions neighborhood - Fast Company A dry Venice - AP Electric bike subsidies - Kinder Institute Small business losses - Salon...

Oct 13, 202032 min

Episode 305: The Increments of Neighborhood

This week we’re chatting with Brian O’Looney about his new book Increments of Neighborhood: A Compendium of Built Types for Walkable and Vibrant Communities. We chat about the housing types in the book, whether big data has a role in housing, and why the basic economics of building matters.

Oct 08, 202043 min

Series Preview: Land Matters Podcast

This week on Mondays we bring you an episode of the Land Matters podcast from the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy hosted by Anthony Flint. On this episode : The Coronavirus pandemic and growing outrage about racial injustice have underscored the centrality of healthy, well-located, and affordable housing in society. Author Kim Vermeer and smart growth advocate Andre Leroux assess efforts to create more housing options to address longstanding economic and racial disparities. From the Land Matter...

Oct 06, 202028 min
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