Talking Headways: A Streetsblog Podcast

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Episode 468: Organizing and Data that Create Wins Feb 01, 2024

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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.

This episode was produced in partnership with Mpact

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Episode 147: Mondays at the Overhead Wire - No More Math Please Jan 30, 2024

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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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Episode 467: Are We Taking Less Trips? Jan 25, 2024

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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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Episode 466: Making DOTs Measure Emissions Jan 18, 2024

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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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Episode 146: Mondays at the Overhead Wire - Into 2024 Jan 16, 2024

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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.

Below are links to the items we shared on the show.

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Main Links

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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Episode 465: The San Francisco Ferry Building with John King Jan 11, 2024

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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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Monday Replay: Highways and Partisanship Jan 09, 2024

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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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Episode 464: Narrow the Lanes! Jan 04, 2024

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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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Transit Unplugged Holiday Special: Randy Clarke Dec 28, 2023

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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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Episode 463: Congressman Earl Blumenauer Dec 21, 2023

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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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