Talking Headways: A Streetsblog Podcast

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Episode 450: Land Use to Reduce Transportation Emissions Sep 14, 2023

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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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Episode 449: Getting High Speed Rail Faster Sep 07, 2023

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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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Episode 139: Mondays at The Overhead Wire - Do Pedestrians Exist in the Model? Sep 05, 2023

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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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Episode 448: A Bootcamp for Infrastructure Aug 31, 2023

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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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Episode 447: Leadership for the 15 Minute City Aug 24, 2023

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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.

Also make sure to sign up for the Webinar on September 13th.

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Episode 138: Mondays at The Overhead Wire - Phoenix Rising Aug 22, 2023

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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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Episode 446: Do It For the Neighborhood Part 2 Aug 17, 2023

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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.

This episode was produced in partnership with Mpact. Find out more about the annual conference at http://mpactmobility.org

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Episode 445: Do it for the Neighborhood Part 1 Aug 10, 2023

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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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Episode 137: Mondays at The Overhead Wire - No Retreat, No Surrender Aug 08, 2023

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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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Episode 444: The Rising Seas Aug 03, 2023

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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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