Talking Headways: A Streetsblog Podcast

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Episode 210: The Return of Urban Manufacturing Nov 08, 2018

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This week on the podcast, Kate Sofis, CEO of SFMade joins us to talk about the resurgence in urban manufacturing. We talk about what types of goods are manufactured in cities like San Francisco, the zoning codes that allow manufacturing to thrive in strong housing markets, and how cities have changed the narrative on manufacturing in more urban locales.

Episode 6: Mondays at The Overhead Wire - Keeping Your Data Nov 06, 2018

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This week the team talks about voting and San Francisco's fight between billionaire's over homelessness measures. We chat about how in Estonia you can keep your data and more about MIT's Moral Machine experiment asking people around the world about the trolley problem.

Here are the articles we covered...

Moral Machine - MIT Technology Review

Billionaire War - Wired Magazine

Own Your Own Data - Smart Cities World

Platform Urbanism and Walled Gardens - Fast Company

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More News Items

Electric Delivery - Seattle Times

Rise in TNC Traffic - Tech Crunch

Cars Still Banned from the Seine - CityLab

Episode 209: The Housing Last Policy Oct 31, 2018

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This week California State Senator Scott Wiener joins us to talk about a number of issues near and dear to our heart including housing and transportation. We talk about what's holding California housing back and several of his bills that address this in the Senate including SB35 as well as the potential return next year of SB827 which would upzone housing near frequent transit. We also chat about the potential for state level discussions on congestion pricing as well as a far future idea of getting transit alignments right.

Episode 208: One Zone to Rule Them All Oct 18, 2018

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This week on Talking Headways we're joined by Eric Singer and Andrej Micovic, Associates at Bilzin Sumberg in Miami who talk about the creation of the RTZ ordinance. They also talk about how the recent TIF districts and the county's Strategic Miami Area Rapid Transit (SMART) Plan interact with the RTZ and what's important in writing planning code.

Episode 207: Waiting for the Ghost Bus Oct 18, 2018

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This week we're joined by Dr. Kari Watkins, Associate Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Georgia Tech and co-founder and "Chief Motivator" of OneBusAway, an open source platform for real time transit info. Kari talks about her research into the role of technology in the evolving transit experience, possible "dangerous futures ahead" - such as zero-passenger vehicles - and the "best future" of high capacity transit on dedicated right of way, fed by robust bike and sidewalk networks and TNCs for low density areas, all supported by timely information and payment - mobility as a service.

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Episode 5: Mondays at The Overhead Wire Oct 16, 2018

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Welcome to our NEW SHOW on the Talking Headways Podcast Network called Mondays at The Overhead Wire where Jeff and a rotating band of amazing co-hosts talk about the top stories from TheOverheadWire.com.

This week Anna Muessig of Gehl joins to talk about her trip to Copenhagen, AVs, and Uber's move into congestion pricing advocacy.

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Featured Discussion Articles This Week

NEWS

London Reducing Vehicles in the Core - Weekly Standard

Anthony Foxx joins Lyft - Medium

Ford Plant gets redevelopment plan - Star Tribune

Saudi $500B Megacity Controversy - Buzzfeed News

STORY OF THE WEEK

Tree Superhighways - Fast Company

Uber Support for Congestion Pricing - Seattle Times

SPOTLIGHT NEW MOBILITY

AV 3.0 Guidelines - USDOT

Kevin DeGood Tweet Storm - Twitter

PUPPIES AND BUTTERFLIES

Cities and Film - ArchDaily

Episode 206: Future Fare Media and the Clipper Card Oct 11, 2018

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This week we're joined by Carol Kuester and Lysa Hale of the Metropolitan Transportation Commission's Electronic Payments Department. Carol and Lysa talk about the Clipper transit fare payment card and how it works along with coming updates to the system. We also chat about fare simplification and what it means to different people, whether Clipper can be a first step towards mobility as a service, and what happens to all the money that floats through the system on any given day.

Episode 4: Mondays at The Overhead Wire Oct 09, 2018

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This week Chrissy Mancini Nichols of Walker Consultants joins to talk about developers and parking, bike share data, and we go through the week's news.

@theoverheadwire

@ManciniChrissy

Episode 205: Bicycles as a Rolling Signifier Oct 03, 2018

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This week we're chatting with Dr. Melody Hoffman, professor of communications studies at Anoka Ramsey Community College at the American Planning Association Midwest Conference about her book Bike Lanes are White Lanes. We discuss how bike lanes are flashpoints for neighborhood gentrification fights, bicycle advocacy history and the women's movement, and how bikes can be seen as rolling signifiers.

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Episode 3: Mondays at The Overhead Wire Oct 02, 2018

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This week Chrissy Mancini Nichols of Walker Consultants joins to talk about TNC regulations and neighborhoods. We also play the game WikiCity and discuss why October is the best month.

@theoverheadwire

@ManciniChrissy

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