Talking Headways: A Streetsblog Podcast

This week we’re chatting with Jim Murley, Chief Resilience Officer for Miami-Dade County Florida. Jim talks about climate change, sea level rise, and how South East Florida is responding with policy and planning.

This week on the podcast Brianne Eby of the Eno Center for Transportation joins the show to talk about their new report on congestion pricing.  We talk about the purposes and goals of congestion pricing, the right frame to talk about reducing congestion, how congestion pricing is part of a larger toolbox, equity implications, and the US cities might be the first to adopt pricing as a policy.   For more, follow us @theoverheadwire on twitter

This week on Mondays, Chrissy joins the show to talk about transit solutions amid coronavirus. We're thinking about the reasons why people fear transit, why they shouldn't, and what agencies can do to protect riders and workers. Odds and Ends The first restaurants - History Channel Original park design - St. Louis Magazine Germany requires EV chargers at gas stations - Reuters CAHSR consultant change - Sacramento Bee If you want any facts or figures from the main topic, feel free to message as I have about 35 of them...

This week we’re joined by Jonathan Barnett, emeritus Professor of Practice in City and Regional Planning at the University of Pennsylvania. We talk about his new book Designing the Megaregion: Meeting Urban Challenges at a New Scale.  Jonathan chats about where the idea of Megaregions came from, Ian McHarg and environmental planning within the landscape, the importance of transit connections in these regions, and how we can coordinate Megaregions administratively.

This week we're joined by Danny Pleasant, Former City of Charlotte Transportation Director and Assistant City Manager. Danny joins us to talk about the connection between city services and street networks as well as a transportation expansion in the city. 

This week I didn't want to say much because at this time people don't need to listen to me talk right now.  But I did want to share some of the voices and speeches given by black mayors. CityLab put together a piece with quotes and I took the audio so you could hear their voices. We also shared a few articles Kareem Abdul-Jabbar Op-Ed - Los Angeles Times 75 Things White People Can Do for Racial Justice - Corinne Shutack on Medium The Black Urbanist - Kristen Jeffers Stop Killing Us: Tamika Butler on Medium Violence Against Black Americans a Moment of Reckoning for Planning Profession - Planetizen with lots of links to black voices.

This week we're joined by April Bertelsen, Transit Modal Coordinator with the Portland Bureau of Transportation (PBOT) to talk about the Rose Lanes Project.  April chats about implementation, public engagement, and the benefits of the pilot project approach. Follow us @theoverheadwire Support us on Patreon!

This week we’re joined by Germaine Halegoua, an Associate Professor of film and media studies at the University of Kansas to talk about her book The Digital City: Media and the Social Production of Place.  She talks about how people use digital media to relate to cities whether that’s images on Instagram or through Google Maps. We also talk about how data exchange can be exploitative and how internet infrastructure is used as a commodity rather than a utility and how that affects equity. And finally there's a discussion about smart cities and how they try to create top down culture.

This week we're joined by Chrissy Mancini Nichols to talk about some of the solutions cities are discussing to help businesses out during the Coronavirus.  Odds and Ends AirBnB slump could return housing to cities - Guardian Nashville to raise property taxes - Bloomberg Santa Monica a harbinger of things to come? - LA Times Theme of the Week - Coronavirus Solutions Making us rethink public space - NBC Restaurants want to open, need space - NYC Streetsblog   SF restaurants could take parking spots - SF Chronicle   Put restaurants outside - Slate   Philly should be 24 hour city - Inquirer   New opportunities for downtown districts after pandemic - ASLA Dirt     Follow us @theoverheadwire on twitter  

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.

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

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.

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.

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 As always you can support us on Patreon or by getting one of our scarves at TheOverheadWire.com  

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. Follow us @theoverhead wire on twitter or visit http://theoverheadwire.com  

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.  

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  

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.

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 Story of the Week Infrastructure spending ideas - World Economic Forum Puppies and Butterflies Paper Machet animals in Flagstaff - Arizona Daily Sun

This week on the podcast we're joined by Chris Nelder of the Rocky Mountain Institute and the Energy Transition Show podcast. Chris chats with us about what cities and utilities need to think about as they electrify transportation and how rules and regulations might make it harder than it needs to be. We also chat about how municipal utilities like Seattle are ahead of the curve and whether your local gas station might disappear.