Talking Headways: A Streetsblog Podcast

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Episode 354: Active Transportation Laws in Berlin Oct 07, 2021

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This week we're joined by Roland Stimpel of The German Pedestrian Association Fussverkehr. Roland chats with us about Berlin's new mobility laws including the 2018 Mobility Act and 2021's pedestrian law amendments. We also talk about SUVs, the struggle to find public servants, and Ampelmännchen, the traffic light man.

Episode 353: Depave Cities Sep 30, 2021

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This week on the podcast we're joined by Mary Pat McGuire, Associate Professor of Landscape Architecture at the University of Illinois. Mary Pat talks with us about what happens to water after it hits the pavement, the damaging environmental impacts of covering cities in pavement, and steps we can take to reduce runoff in green cities.

Episode 97: Mondays at The Overhead Wire - Electric Chargers Among Us Sep 28, 2021

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This week on Mondays, we discuss a lot of different topics from HOLC map redlining to electric car chargers. We don't talk much about the infrastructure bill but I imagine that will be coming soon whether it passes or not!

News

Who increases air quality guidelines - Guardian

40 years of HSR - La Croix Translated

The train the shrunk France - Ars Technica

Berlin buys out apartments - AP News

Redlining didn't happen how we thought it did - Governing

EV Chargers in Zoning Code - Urban Milwaukee

Do we need 500K chargers? - Motherboard

The economics of gas stations - The Hustle

Episode 352: The Community Knows What it Wants Sep 23, 2021

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This month on the Railvolution podcast we're joined by Duncan Hwang, Interim Co-Director of the Asian Pacific Network of Oregon and Gauri Rajbaidya, architect and senior associate at SERA. They chat with us about community driven development in Portland's Jade District and how it's connected to the rest of the region.

Episode 351: The Rules Require Death Sep 16, 2021

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This week we're joined by Dr. Megan Ryerson, UPS Chair of Transportation at the University of Pennsylvania's Weitzman School of Design. Dr. Ryerson joins us to talk about her research on cognitive workload, measuring the stress of cyclists at intersections. We also chat about transportation during the pandemic, the uneven power dynamics in traffic safety between cars and bikes/pedestrians, and how safety and an inability to navigate are access restrictions.

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Episode 96: Mondays at The Overhead Wire - Find Your Solarpunk City Sep 14, 2021

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This week Tracy McMillan joins the show to talk about engineering climate change preparedness in New Orleans, Solarpunk cities, making Lego budget movies, and early Robert Putnam's thoughts on Italian social capital.

We also chat a bit about Metro Twin Cities new transit pass plan and Paris' new speed limit.

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Episode 350: The Built Environment Memory Hole Sep 09, 2021

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This week we're joined by Tufts Professor Justin Hollander. Justin chats with us about a wide range of topics including VMT Taxes, using eye tracking software to measure the impacts of the built environment on people's mind, and he reacts to the most recent census release.

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Episode 349: Active Transportation Parades Sep 02, 2021

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This week we're joined by new Rail~Volution CEO Tamar Shapiro. We chat about her previous work in transportation and city planning at orgs like NUMO and The Governor's Institute, how to measure transportation success, and the transportation parades before German soccer games.

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Episode 348: New Mobilities with Todd Litman Aug 26, 2021

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This week we're joined by Todd Litman, Executive Director of the Victoria Transport Policy Institute. Todd discusses his book New Mobilities: Smart Planning for Emerging Transportation Technologies. We reframe the transportation investments we make, talk about sharing information, and discuss why air taxis might not be the future.

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Episode 95: Mondays at The Overhead Wire - Connecting the Dots Aug 24, 2021

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This week on the Mondays show, we chat about a number of different big articles from the last few weeks including TXDOT's freeway expansions, using the Commerce Clause to rethink zoning, working from home and more! I'm Han Solo this week but I've pulled together a couple of the recent newsletter intros as well.

News VMT tax is bad for health - The Hill

TXDOT's massive Austin expansion - KUT

Are we more productive working from home? - Chicago Booth Review

Could the Commerce Clause change zoning? - New York State Bar Association

Nashville's new transportation department - Smart Cities World

Self storage is an equity issue - MinnPost