Talking Headways: A Streetsblog Podcast
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Sinopsis
Talking Headways is a podcast hosted by Streetsblog USA and Jeff Wood of The Overhead Wire. We explore the intersection of transportation, urban planning, city living, and anything else that piques our interest.
Episodios
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Episode 353: Depave Cities
30/09/2021 Duración: 53minThis 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.
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Episode 97: Mondays at The Overhead Wire - Electric Chargers Among Us
28/09/2021 Duración: 30minThis 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
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Episode 352: The Community Knows What it Wants
23/09/2021 Duración: 41minThis 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.
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Episode 351: The Rules Require Death
16/09/2021 Duración: 48minThis 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. Follow us on twitter @theoverheadwire Support the show at http://patreon.com/theoverheadwire
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Episode 96: Mondays at The Overhead Wire - Find Your Solarpunk City
14/09/2021 Duración: 58minThis 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. Find us on twitter @theoverheadwire Support the show on Patreon http://patreon.com/theoverheadwire
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Episode 350: The Built Environment Memory Hole
09/09/2021 Duración: 39minThis 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. Follow us on twitter @theoverheadwire Support the show http://patreon.com/theoverheadwire
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Episode 349: Active Transportation Parades
02/09/2021 Duración: 37minThis 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. Follow us on twitter @theoverheadwire Support the show http://patreon.com/theoverheadwire
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Episode 348: New Mobilities with Todd Litman
26/08/2021 Duración: 55minThis 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. Follow us on twitter @theoverheadwire Support the show at http://patreon.com/theoverheadwire
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Episode 95: Mondays at The Overhead Wire - Connecting the Dots
24/08/2021 Duración: 28minThis 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
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Episode 347: The Feminist City
19/08/2021 Duración: 38minThis week we’re joined by Professor Leslie Kern to talk about her book Feminist City. We talk about the need to make more spaces for non-traditional relationships, feminist geography and intersectionality, and how care work taxes personal transportation budgets. Follow us on twitter @theoverheadwire Support the show on Patreon: http://patreon.com/theoverheadwire
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Episode 346: Saved Mental Energy
12/08/2021 Duración: 45minThis week we're joined by Melissa and Chris Bruntlett to talk about their book, Curbing Traffic: The Human Case for Fewer Cars in Our Lives. We chat about the ambient stress and anxiety created by auto oriented cities, the mental energy saved by car light spaces, and the difference between engineering and ecological resilience. Follow us on twitter @theoverheadwire Support the show on Patreon http://patreon.com/theoverheadwire
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Episode 94: Mondays at The Overhead Wire - Moving at the Speed of Congress
10/08/2021 Duración: 01h15minThis week on the Mondays show Chrissy and I discuss the history of the Segway, why people want cities to die, new ways to measure intersection safety and some of the details related to the infrastructure bill. News Infrastructure bill overview webinar - Eno Center Why did people want covid to kill cities? - NYT A new metric for safe streets - PennToday Bike representation in the movies - Slate History of the Segway - Slate Puppies and Butterflies Jess Zimbabwe on twitter
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Episode 345: The Heat is On
05/08/2021 Duración: 50minThis week we’re joined by Dr. V Kelly Turner, Director of Urban Environment Research at UCLA’s Luskin Center for Innovation. We chat about how to think differently about urban heat, how to measure it, and how to regulate it. Read her piece in Next City. Follow us on twitter @theoverheadwire Support the show on Patreon. http://patreon.com/theoverheadwire
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Episode 344: No More Transit Hunger Games
29/07/2021 Duración: 53minThis week Dan Baer, Senior Vice President at WSP talks with Kevin Corbett, President and CEO of New Jersey Transit. In this 1 on 1 conversation, Dan and Kevin talk about NJ Transit’s response to the pandemic, bus electrification, and much more. Follow us on twitter @theoverheadwire
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Episode 343: This Food Pyramid Would be All Cars
22/07/2021 Duración: 51minThis week we’re joined by Zabe Bent, Director of Design for the National Association of City Transportation Officials. We chat about how we think too much about the future and growth, the current MUTCD process, and how she would start the design an infrastructure bill. Mary Pay McGuire in Next City on Pavement. Follow us on twitter @theoverheadwire Support us on Patreon at http://patreon.com/theoverheadwire
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Episode 342: Man's Best Friend on Transit
15/07/2021 Duración: 38minThis week we’re joined by Dr. Jennifer Kent, Senior Research Fellow in Urbanism at the Sydney School of Architecture. Jennifer talks with us about why we travel, the impact of dogs on our travel behavior, and the idea of “messy trips”. Follow us on twitter @theoverheadwire Support the show on Patreon at http://patreon.com/theoverheadwire
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Episode 93: Mondays at The Overhead Wire - Advocates to Electeds
13/07/2021 Duración: 59minThis week on Mondays at The Overhead Wire, we share a bit of the news from the last few weeks, but then Mesa Arizona City Council Member Francisco Heredia and Charlotte City Council Member Braxton Winston talk with each other about their journeys from being an advocate to elected officials. This episode initially was shared on the Rail~Volution podcast, but now you can check it out here as well. News Let's talk more about pavement - Next City Aging condos need better oversight - Bloomberg Urban Mobility Report is back and still missing the point - City Observatory
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Episode 341: A Guide to Open Mobility as a Service
08/07/2021 Duración: 45minThis week we’re joined by Andrew Salzberg, Head of Policy at Transit App. Andrew talks with us about Transit’s Guide to Open Mobility as a Service and discusses how policy can create a better travel experience for everyone. The Guide to Open Mobility as a Service is found here. Follow us on twitter @theoverheadwire Support the show on Patreon at http://patreon.com
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Episode 340: Coordinating Pandemic Transit
01/07/2021 Duración: 40minThis week we’re joined by Robert del Rosario, Director of Service Development for AC Transit in Oakland California. Robert talks about agency coordination during the pandemic, what’s needed to get riders coming back, and what sustainable revenue might look like going forward. Follow us on twitter @theoverheadwire Support the show on Patreon http://patreon.com/theoverheadwire
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Episode 92: Mondays at The Overhead Wire - Full Day Rush Hour
29/06/2021 Duración: 01h02minThis 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