Talking Headways: A Streetsblog Podcast

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Episode 422: The Messiness of Family Travel Mar 02, 2023

Show notes

This week we're joined by Dr. Jennifer Kent, Senior Research Fellow in Urbanism at the University of Sydney, to talk about her work on family transportation, the messiness of travel for parents, and loneliness and the built environment.

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Episode 127: Mondays at The Overhead Wire - Conspiracy! Feb 28, 2023

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This week on Mondays we're again Han Solo, but don't let that stop you from listening in to all the news from the last couple of weeks! We chat about the 15 Minute City conspiracy, why the American Association of Railroads is against electrification, and Wales' climate action on roads.

Below are the links from stories we talked about in the show notes!

News Items

Anti-electrification - Clean Technica

Converting diesel to electric research - Nature

Brussels traffic plan - The Mayor.eu

Ghent traffic reduction - Sky News

15 minute cities conspiracy theory - New Statesman

More conspiracy Guardian | CNN | Slate

Flood zone properties overvalued - Grist

Rethinking one hour deliveries - Streetsblog USA

Welsh road climate review - Guardian

Bonus Items

Park city underground - KPCW

Recycling building materials - ArchDaily | BBC Future

Healthy cities more sidewalks - Bloomberg CityLab

Convenience store crashes - Smart Cities Dive

20mph speed limits - Intelligent Transport

Remote work costs Manhattan - Bloomberg

Amsterdam's housing plans - Euractiv

LA wants to destroy 13K trees - LA Daily News

Berlin's plan for car free neighborhood - Guardian

Why aren't teens driving? - Washington Post

Teenage brains - National Geographic

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Episode 421: Everyone Thinks They Can be a Landscape Architect Feb 23, 2023

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This week we're joined by Diane Jones Allen, Program Director for Landscape Architecture at the University of Texas at Arlington. We chat about her work on food deserts and transportation access and the American Society of Landscape Architects Climate Action Plan.

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Episode 420: Homelessness and Transit Feb 16, 2023

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This week we're going to the Rail~Volution (Now MPact) Conference in Miami. Daniel Gibson of Regional Vice President of Miami Dade Allegany Franciscan Ministries moderates a panel featuring LA Metro CEO Stephanie Wiggins, SEPTA CEO Leslie Richards, and Diana Stanley, CEO of homeless services provider The Lord's Place to talk about homelessness and public transportation. They chat about the need for more federal agency coordination between transportation, health, and human services as well as how transit agencies are tackling the issues vulnerable populations face.

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Episode 126: Mondays at The Overhead Wire - Edible Concrete Feb 14, 2023

Show notes

This week we're Han Solo but we do talk about a LOT of news from around the country! We chat about Denver's successful e-bike pilot, biodiversity in cities, transit project costs report, Pittsburgh rethinks its budget based on climate change, and much much more!

News

Denver's e-bike success - Smart Cities Dives

Biodiversity in cities - The New Republic

Transit Costs Project Executive Summary - TCP

Construction Productivity - New York Times

Best new bike lanes - People for Bikes

Pittsburgh redoes budget - Grist

Gender equality in transport - Eltis

Rent control for who? - Governing

Bonus Items

Parking spaces too small - Motherboard

Mexico city migration - Compact Magazine

Small investments better than bigger ones - Guardian

Apartment construction highest since 73 - Route Fifty

Lifestyle rail - Forbes

Consumption based emissions - Helsinki Times

TfL developing land - Transport Xtra

Roosevelt Boulevard subway gets cold shoulder - Inquirer

Puppies and Butterflies

Edible cement - ArchDaily

Monorail episode oral history - The Ringer

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Episode 419: We Travel to Reach Destinations Feb 09, 2023

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This week we're joined by Greg Shill, Professor of Law at the University of Iowa, and Jonathan Levine, Professor of Urban and Regional Planning at the University of Michigan to talk about their paper, First Principals in Transportation Law and Policy. We talk about how to rethink transportation metrics towards accessibility, how the law has embedded mobility in transportation, and why we really travel.

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Episode 418: Get on the Fast Bus Feb 02, 2023

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This week we're joined by Colin Parent, Executive Director of Circulate San Diego, to talk about their new report Fast Bus! How San Diego Can Make Progress by Speeding Up the Bus. We chat about some of the big things happening in San Diego and how the region can promote and support buses.

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Episode 125: Mondays at The Overhead Wire - Power Outage! Jan 31, 2023

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Chrissy Mancini Nichols joins the show this week to talk bike lanes, low traffic neighborhoods, gas stoves, and transportation engineering in the United States. It gets even more fun as Jeff's power goes out and we have to do the last 10 minutes over the phone! Join us for episode 125 of Mondays at The Overhead Wire.

Show Notes

Transportation engineering education - Next City

Low Traffic neighborhood study - Guardian

Bike lane battles - Wired Magazine

Cooler pavements - Transfers Magazine

Gas Stoves and childhood asthma - Washington Post

Map of gas stove use - Statista

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Episode 417: Transportation Policy Transfer in Southeast Asia Jan 26, 2023

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This week we're joined by Dr. Dorina Pojani, Associate Professor of Urban Planning at the University of Queensland to talk about her book Planning for Sustainable Transport in Southeast Asia: Policy Transfer, Diffusion, and Mobility. We chat about how four different Southeast Asian cities are taking transportation ideas from other places and trying to deal with congestion and mobility.

You can find the book from Springer here.

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Episode 416: What Do Transportation Lobbyists Do? Jan 19, 2023

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This week we're joined by Dr. Nadia Anderson, former Director of Federal Affairs at INRIX. Dr. Anderson joins us to talk about what lobbyists actually do, the one year anniversary of IIJA, and how it leads to Justice 40 and equity action.

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