Talking Headways: A Streetsblog Podcast

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Episode 92: Mondays at The Overhead Wire - Full Day Rush Hour Jun 29, 2021

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This week on the show Chrissy Mancini Nichols joins to talk about the post pandemic rush hour, parklets and ADA, Charlotte approving their 2040 plan, and the most recent news about the American Jobs/Infrastructure Plan.

News!

Charlotte Passes 2040 Plan - Charlotte Observer

Pandemic street changes and ADA - Eater | Bloomberg

Rush hour and remote work - New York Times | PNAS

Infrastructure Plan

Group of 10 makes a deal - New York Times

Biden smooths over misunderstanding - Politico

Don't forget what we're buying - Streetsblog USA

Episode 339: A Compass for Sustainability Jun 24, 2021

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This week we're joined by Mark Perepelitza, Director of Sustainability at SERA Architects. Mark chats with us about the meaning of sustainability, the company's sustainability action plan, and their colorful project compass.

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Episode 338: Better Data, Better Planning Jun 17, 2021

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This week we're joined by Alex Hoffman, Assistant Director for CID Planning at the City of El Paso. We chat about using data to make planning decisions, the geography of place, and what the future might look like with more information.

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Episode 91: Mondays at The Overhead Wire - Ten Senator Monte Jun 15, 2021

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This week on Mondays, Chrissy Mancini Nichols joins the show and we talk about the weight of EVs, Amazon's dangerous delivery algorithm, and of course the many infrastructure bills and plans.

News

EV's heavier than ICE vehicles - CNN

A universal travel pattern - MIT News

Big oil's bad day - New Yorker

Amazon's dangerous algorithm - Motherboard

Infrastructure Bonanza!

Sen. Capito talks collapse - Washington Post

A 10 senator deal - CNN

15% corporate minimum tax - Reuters

GOP backs VMT? - Transport Topics

Progressives draw red line on climate - Politico

House committee to take up $547B bill - Washington Post

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Episode 337: Putting City Character and Authenticity in Context Jun 10, 2021

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This week we're joined once again by author Chuck Wolfe to talk about his book Sustaining a City's Culture and Character. We talk about sustainable travel and the "character" and "authenticity" of places. We also talk in detail about the importance of context when considering planning for the future.

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Episode 336: Calculating Induced Travel Jun 03, 2021

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This week we're joined by Ben Holland, Senior Associate at the Rocky Mountain Institute to talk about important strategies for reducing emissions in the transportation and land use sectors. We talk about the disconnect between techno-optimists and urbanists in climate change approach, RMI's new Colorado induced travel calculator, and the hard choices regions have on transportation and development.

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Episode 335: A Framework for Inclusive Healthy Places May 27, 2021

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This week on Talking Headways we're joined by Sharon Roerty, Senior Program Officer at the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, and Maki Kawaguchi, a Director at Gehl to talk about the Inclusive Healthy Places Framework. Sharon and Maki talk about the importance of creating spaces that bring dignity to all users, the importance of evaluating existing spaces, and creating a data driven and people first approach to creating inclusive healthy places.

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Episode 90: Mondays at The Overhead Wire - Bad Infrastructure Romance May 25, 2021

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This week Tracy joins to talk about the surface transportation bill put forward by the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee in addition to architecture and capitalism, the COMMUTE bill, lumber prices, and Dallas' new transportation plan. Oh, and SHARKS!

News

New transportation bill planned - Senate EPW

A response from T4 - Transportation for America

Capitalism shaping architecture - Fast Company

The COMMUTE bill - Streetsblog USA

Lumber prices - Vox

Dallas approves transportation plan - Dallas Morning News

Puppies and Butterflies!

The Battle of SHARKS! - CGP Grey on YouTube

Episode 334: Scooby Doo's Low Per Capita Emissions May 20, 2021

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This week we're joined by L'erin Jensen and Josh Cohen, hosts of The Movement Podcast at Transloc. We chat about why they got into podcasting as a way to talk about transportation, some of their favorite guests, and what's vexing them about current policy.

(Fixed 5/20/21 for audio error)

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Episode 333: Scheduling Cities and An Infrastructure Optimization May 13, 2021

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This week we're joined by Laura Schewel, Co-founder and CEO of Streetlight Data and Carlo Ratti, Director of MIT's SENSEible City Lab to talk about what we've learned from data during the pandemic. They also chat about what it would mean for infrastructure to be optimized if we rescheduled cities in a way that works for everyone at all times of day.

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