Talking Headways: A Streetsblog Podcast

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Episode 284: California High Speed Rail's Next Steps May 14, 2020

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This week on Talking Headways we're joined by CAHSR Northern California Regional Director Boris Lipkin. He talks with us about the California High Speed Rail project and the recently released draft environmental work. Boris also gives us his thoughts on megaregions, megaproject management lessons, and the agency's ability to use future funds available through stimulus programs.

Episode 61: Mondays at The Overhead Wire - Institutional Control May 12, 2020

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This week on the podcast Tracy McMillan of Nelson Nygaard and Chrissy Mancini Nichols of Walker Consultants join the show to talk about density and the coronavirus. Though we end up talking more about institutions because density, while a big current topic, isn't in our minds why the virus is spreading.

Odds and Ends

100,000 retail stores could be gone - USA Today

Amsterdam to use the doughnut model - Fast Company

Making pollinators citizens - The Guardian

Main Theme Discussion - Density

The Risks, know them - Dr. Erin Bromage

Just wait on density talk - Dr. Lisa Schweitzer

Density not the problem - CityLab

A history of blaming place for problems - CityLab

France says no to short haul flights - IRJ

Density could be good for us after the pandemic - NY Times

Puppies and Butterflies

Jerry Stiller - "You Want a Piece of Me"

You can't tickle yourself - Horizons

Episode 283: Housing and Golden Gates May 07, 2020

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This week we're joined by journalist Conor Dougherty to talk about his book Golden Gates: Fighting for Housing in America. Conor talks about growing up in San Francisco, his literary inspirations for the book, and the arc of some of the real characters in his book.

Episode 282: Houston Mayor Turner's Complete Communities Apr 30, 2020

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This week we're chatting with Houston Mayor Sylvester Turner. Mayor Turner talks about the city's Complete Communities program and how they are coordinating each city department to support historically under resourced neighborhoods.

Episode 60: Mondays at The Overhead Wire - Slow Streets Apr 28, 2020

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This week on Mondays Chrissy Mancini Nichols joins the show to talk in more detail about the pandemic and slow streets. We take a bit of a deeper dive on the subject and think about how physical distancing might be a good metric for thinking about streets and for people and commerce.

Main Theme - Streets for People

Oakland slow streets - Curbed SF

New Zealand tactical urbanism - Forbes

100 miles of slow streets in NYC - Streetsblog NYC

Milan has a post virus plan - Guardian

Paris plans for bike lanes - Forbes

Muni's post virus plans - SF Streetsblog

Odds and Ends

Large fall in CO2 - GreenBiz - Grist

Census after a natural disaster - Texas Observer

Colorado counties build own telecom - Colorado Sun

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Episode 281: Oakland's Coordinated Coronavirus Response Apr 23, 2020

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This week we're joined by Warren Logan, Policy Director of Mobility and Inter Agency Relations for the City of Oakland. Warren talks with us about Oakland's Coronavirus response including how they came up with initiatives to respond to the crisis and some of the specific implementations such as the Slow Streets Initiative. We dive deep into public engagement and how to think about coordination between different departments in new ways.

Episode 280: Laws Prioritizing Cars Over People Apr 16, 2020

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This week on the podcast we chat with University of Iowa Law Professor Greg Shill. We were invited to talk at Manny's in the Mission in San Francisco by the Urban Environmentalists group, an affiliate club of YIMBY Action. Greg chats with us mostly about his recent research and writing on the normalization of motordom and how we can't really opt out of it, the idea of automobile supremacy, the legal subsidies to driving and even the tax benefits associated with cars.

Episode 59: Mondays at The Overhead Wire - Teddy Bear Windows Apr 14, 2020

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This week we chat about racial disparities in Coronavirus deaths, the coming housing crunch, and have some fun naming the Western States Pact.

News

Viral modeling of traffic - Inverse

COVID-19 racial disparities - AP Newswire

Coronavirus housing - Curbed

Odds and Ends

Don't flush the wipes - Smart Cities Dive

Puppies and Butterflies

Teddybear in the window - New York Times

Episode 279: Improving Behavioral Health Through Transportation Apr 09, 2020

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This week we're joined by Gail Nehls and Leslie Patterson of Envida, a nonprofit transportation and home care organization. We chat about how transportation can help those with behavioral health concerns such as opioid addictions and schizophrenia, how innovation can change people's health outcomes, and the systems people need in rural areas to thrive.

Episode 58: Mondays at The Overhead Wire - Silver Linings Apr 07, 2020

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Tracy joins the show again to chat about pandemic economics, e-bikes in New York, and infrastructure spending.

News

Infrastructure bill - The Hill

E-bikes now legal in NY - Fast Company

Pandemic working paper - MIT News

Odds and Ends

Fuel economy rollback - LA Times

Ann Arbor's carbon neutral plans - M Live

Who is sheltering in place - New York Times

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