Talking Headways: A Streetsblog Podcast

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Episode 409: Rep. Earl Blumenauer Nov 17, 2022

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This week we sit down with US Congressman Earl Blumenauer of Oregon's 3rd District at the Rail~Volution conference in Miami. We chat about the one year anniversary of the infrastructure bill, where we're at with vision zero, the coming Farm Bill discussion, and the important connections between housing, transportation, and health.

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Episode 121: Mondays at The Overhead Wire - A Public Utility Nov 15, 2022

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This week we're joined by The Greater Marin's David Edmondson! We talk about the importance of Time, whether freight railroad tracks should be publicly owned and managed, and the boom in ridership on Van Ness. We also talk a bit of Andor and the hill slums of Sierra Leone

Show Links:

Van Ness BRT ridership bump - San Francisco Chronicle

Publicly owned railroad infrastructure - Freight Waves

The importance of "Time" - Eurocities

100 years of autocentricity - Forbes

Shenzhen's electric buses - Smart Cities World

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Episode 408: California High Speed Rail Update Nov 10, 2022

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This week we're joined by Northern California Director for High Speed Rail Boris Lipkin and Streetsblog San Francisco editor Roger Rudick to talk about high speed rail's progress in California. Boris discusses what's next for the High Speed Rail program, funding, and station design and Roger pushes back on recent negative media.

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Updated on 11.10.22 for audio clarity

Episode 407: TDM - The Soft Side of Transportation Nov 03, 2022

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This week we're joined by Tien-Tien Chan of Nelson Nygaard and Jessica Roberts of Alta Planning and Design to talk about Transportation Demand Management or TDM. Tien-Tien and Jessica discuss how TDM acts as the soft side of transportation and the flip side of infrastructure and they dive deep into the different types of programs are employed.

This podcast was produced in partnership with MPact, formerly Rail~Volution.

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Episode 406: Sidewalk Delivery Robots Oct 27, 2022

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This week we're joined by Amanda Howell of Urbanism Next at The University of Oregon to talk about Sidewalk Robots. We chat about their study on sidewalk delivery robots with the Knight Autonomous Vehicle Initiative and what they learned about community engagement and small delivery vehicles on city sidewalks.

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Episode 120: Mondays at the Overhead Wire - Not So Self Driving Oct 25, 2022

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Happy Mondays! This week on Mondays at The Overhead Wire we dive into a number of topics including the hype around self driving cars, the monetary benefits of using parking spaces for more than just cars, recycling whole buildings, and thinking about community input. We also throw in a little highway talk and parks on top of a Costco.

News Items

No self driving cars after $100B invested - Bloomberg Businesweek

New spin on parking spaces during pandemic - Globe and Mail

Recycle a 14-Story Office Tower - New York Times

Office building's biggest emissions: commuters - Commercial Observer

Calamity of I-277 in Charlotte - Charlotte Magazine

(Overhead Wire Blog on I-277)

Not Everyone Should Have a Say - The Atlantic

The Hidden Costco - Fast Company

Cold seawater to heat Helsinki - Bloomberg CityLab

Bonus Items

LA Overcrowding - Los Angeles Times

Colorado Prop 123 - Next City

Aztec floating farms - BBC Future

Global tax on frequent fliers - Washington Post

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Episode 405: Yes to the City Oct 20, 2022

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This week we're joined by Max Holleran to talk about his book Yes to the City: Millennials and the Fight for Affordable Housing. We talk about the rise of YIMBY vs NIMBY housing politics, the changes in housing activism, and how housing fights are going global.

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Episode 404: The Public Wealth of Cities Oct 13, 2022

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This week we're joined by Diana Ramirez, Executive Director of the Harris County Department of Economic Equity and Opportunity, former Salt Lake County Mayor and Congressman Ben McAdams, Matt Prewitt, President of RadicalxChange and Joel Rogers, Director of COWS at the University of Wisconsin Madison to talk about how cities can understand the public wealth owned by our cities. We talk about how cities can create inventories of existing assets to generate public wealth and how economic value can be harnessed for public good.

Two articles referenced in this show:

How To Harness Cities' Hidden Public Wealth - NOEMA Magazine

Harris County putting billions of assets to public use - Urban Edge

Putting Assets to Work - Government Finance Officers Association

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Episode 119: Mondays at The Overhead Wire - A Happy Trip to Work Oct 11, 2022

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This week on Mondays Jeff talks about a whole host of articles from whether your commute makes you happy to if our economies are becoming less dynamic as they age. Also what's keeping you from returning to your office? I bet childcare would help! All that and more this week on Mondays!

Show Links

Commute happiness - MPR

Raleigh vs Charlotte downtowns - The Assembly

Development made Ian worse - WaPo

Latin America's pink housing - Architectural Digest

Return to the office - WaPo | Slate

Omaha rips out bike lane - The Reader

Economies less dynamic - Harvard Business Review

BONUS ITEMS

London's reduced footfall - City Matters

Heavy Trucks - CNN

Smart loading zones - WHYY

Airplane emissions - Journal of Transport Geography

Teacher shortage - Texas Tribune

San Diego scraps road charge - San Diego Union Tribune

Cars vanishing from Paris - Reasons to be Cheerful

Puppies and Butterflies

DIY Freight Train skateboard - The Drive

Love You Gramma.

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Episode 403: At the Expense of Vehicular Capacity Oct 06, 2022

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This week on Talking Headways we're joined by journalist Megan Kimble to talk about housing and highway fights in Texas. We chat about TXDOT's political pressure, the organizations fighting back, and how throughput remains king.

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