Talking Headways: A Streetsblog Podcast

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Episode 78: Mondays at the Overhead Wire - Mayor Pete Dec 22, 2020

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This week Chrissy Mancini Nichols and Jerome Horne join the show to talk about the nomination of former South Bend Indiana Mayor Pete Buttigieg to the post of Transportation Secretary. That's it, that's the topic on this end of the year Mondays at The Overhead Wire.

For those interested in some of the items I mentioned in the show to check out, the links are below.

Mexico's Right to Mobility Amendment - City Fix

Oil Companies and Car Companies Turn - The Atlantic

Climate Warnings on Gas Pumps - Earther

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Episode 314: Infrastructure Only Limited by Our Imagination Dec 17, 2020

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This week we're talking with Katy Knight, Executive Director of the Siegel Family Endowment. We chat about the endowment's recent Infrastructure report entitled Rebuilding America: The Road Ahead which discusses a future where digital, physical, and social infrastructure connect. Katy talks with us about the importance of governance, the two way conversations we should be having with elected officials, distributing investments intelligently, and the importance of greater thinking about social infrastructure.

Episode 313: Location Does Matter Dec 10, 2020

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This week we're joined by Carrie Makarewicz, Assistant Professor at the University of Colorado at Denver, Prentiss Dantzler, Assistant Professor at Georgia State University, and Arlie Adkins, Associate Professor at The University of Arizona to talk about their paper in Housing Policy Debate: Another Look at Location Affordability: Understanding the Detailed Effects of Income and Urban Form on Housing and Transportation Expenditures. The paper looks at how households with varied incomes spend on housing and transportation based on location and it's the most recent iteration of a debate about whether location impacts people's transportation spending.

We also chat about the Panel Study of Income Dynamics, a continuously collected household dataset started in 1968, the idea of housing as critical infrastructure, and the equity implications of access to jobs and destinations.

You can read the paper by emailing Carrie or downloading from the journal site.

Episode 77: Mondays at The Overhead Wire - Zero Fares, Zero Emissions, Zero Losses Dec 08, 2020

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This week on the Mondays show we're back on Election Night! Danny Katz of Colorado PIRG learns live on the air that his ballot measure won and Missoula Montana Mountain Line GM Corey Aldridge tells us all about their zero fare program, their coming zero emissions buses, and what an election win (they won!) would mean for the transit agency.

Episode 312: Building Community in North Philly Dec 03, 2020

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This week on the podcast, Nilda Ruiz and Rose Gray of Asociación Puertorriqueños en Marcha (APM) join the show to talk about how they've been able to build community through TOD while promoting health, wellness, and a green future.

Episode 76: Mondays at The Overhead Wire - Future Federal Transport Policy Dec 01, 2020

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This week on the Mondays show we're back to our election night YouTube show chatting with our friends about federal transportation policy! We're also joined by our co-hosts Chrissy Mancini Nichols and Jerome Horne! Hope you enjoy it.

Episode 311: The Energy Efficiency Megatrend Nov 19, 2020

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This week we're joined by Roger Duncan to talk about his new book with Co-Author Michael Webber called The Future of Transportation, Buildings, and Power. We chat about buildings can get to net zero energy, the changing structure of public utilities, and the energy efficiency megatrend.

Episode 75: Mondays at The Overhead Wire - Lessons from the Field Nov 17, 2020

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Again our friends from election night! That's right, we're sharing some of our election night shenanigans from the live stream we did on YouTube. You can still find the original 7 hour video there to see everyone's backgrounds and setups but we're cutting it down here into some more bite size bits.

On this Mondays we're sharing our discussions with Odetta Macleish White from the Transformation Alliance in Atlanta, Robin Hutcheson of the City of Minneapolis, and Darnell Grisby from Transform.

And hosting we've got Jerome Horne, Chrissy Mancini Nichols, Houstonians Christof and James and of course myself! I hope you all are enjoying these discussions if you missed them. The full video and backgrounds are on our YouTube channel with a timeline so that you can skip to your favorite speaker if you're so inclined.

Episode 310: Transportation and Law Part 1 Nov 12, 2020

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This week we're headed to the Iowa Law Review's Symposium "The Future of Law and Transportation". In this episode, we are sharing a panel on transportation and land use featuring Jonathan Levine, Audrey McFarlane, and Sara Bronin.

Jonathan Levine of the Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning at the University of Michigan discusses his paper 'Transportation Policy Entrenchment: Institutional Barriers to Accessibility Based Planning"

Audrey McFarlane, Associate Dean of Faculty Research & Development at the University of Baltimore School of Law, discusses her paper "Black Mobility and the Refusal of Funds: Structural Racism and Mass Transportation Decision-Making" which she wrote with Dean Julius Isaacson, also of the University of Baltimore School of Law.

And Sara Bronin, Thomas F. Gallivan Chair in Real Property Law and Faculty Director, Center for Energy and Environmental Law, University of Connecticut School of Law discusses "The Failed Federalism of Street and Vehicle Design Standards"

We hope you enjoy this episode and will be back with a few more through the end of the year.

Thanks to Greg Shill and the Iowa College of Law for allowing us to rebroadcast the audio.

Episode 74: Mondays at the Overhead Wire - Texas Election Night Nov 10, 2020

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This week on Mondays we're taking some audio from our election night live stream and sharing it with folks. Chrissy Mancini Nichols and Jerome Horne join us on election night as we talked with local agency folks in Texas about their ballot measures.

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