Talking Headways: A Streetsblog Podcast

This week we are at the Brooklyn Podcast festival talking with Ryan Westrom of Greenfield Labs and Ford Smart Mobility. Ryan chats about his report Design Principals for Living Streets and the history of parking. Audience members are asked to give us their favorite streets and I throw in a little Marie Kondo for good measure. 

This week Anna and I talk about Uber and Lyft taking share away from transit, congestion pricing in LA, and Viadoom! News Shutdown ends after La Guardia suspends flights - NPR Corporate money and affordable housing - Curbed Mayors want incentives, just not for other mayors - Next City Visit this week's sponsor, moovel. Story of the Week Uber and Lyft cause transit decline - Streetsblog USA LA Considers Congestion Pricing - Los Angeles Times Spotlight New Mobility Viadoom just never happened - Seattle Times Puppies and Butterflies Quote of the week - Yes Magazine Wedding registries turn to down payments - CityLab

This week we're chatting with Laura Loe of Share the Cities. Laura chats about her work as a bus driver and as a housing advocate in Seattle.  We talk about how to talk to NIMBY parents and the community that comes along with a bus line.

This week Chrissy and Jeff talk about Smart Cities and Garages and more! Don't forget to visit our sponsor, moovel The News Gavin Newsom Says Housing for Transport Funds - Los Angeles Times NCUTCD says no walk signals - Streetsblog USA Center City Connector Gets the Green Light - Curbed Seattle Story of the Week Alibaba unveils "City Brain" - CNN The Garage is Our Favorite Room - New Yorker Spotlight New Mobility Scooter Regulations Work - New York Times

This week on the podcast we're joined by Regina Clewlow, CEO and Co-Founder of Populus. We talk about some of the research Populus has been working on including on shared and micro mobility and we learn more about the transportation data cities need to operate more efficiently. We also discuss what the media is talking about in terms of new transport technologies and what the best jurisdiction level might be for regulation.

This week we talk with Interim CEO of the Cleveland RTA Dr. Floun'say Caver and former CEO Joe Calabrese about the Euclid Avenue HealthLine bus rapid transit line on its 10th anniversary. The line which connects two major regional employment centers was the product of input from numerous community stakeholders and has been widely deemed a success. We chat about how the line has influenced development on the corridor, the ridership growth on the line, and the potential for expanding lessons learned from the corridor to the rest of the region.

This week on Mondays at The Overhead Wire Chrissy and Jeff chat about food deserts, the L shutdown, delivery congestion and more! The News Sam Zimbabwe now head of Seattle DOT - Seattle Times L Train shutdown not happening - Second Ave Sagas Cap and trade for transportation - Scientific American Check out our sponsor moovel! Story of the Week Grand Rapids disappeared single family zoning - Next City Dollar stores overwhelm grocers - Eater Spotlight New Mobility Delivery congestion - Time Magazine Puppies and Butterflies 195 Gigapixels of Shanghai - Urban Demographics

This week we're joined by Kelsey Keith, Editor-in-Chief at Curbed. Kelsey tells us about some early memories of New York, how the internet has changed and shaped urbanism and architecture media, and new longform pieces tying together Texas and California in unexpected ways.

This week we're joined once again by Christof Spieler who recently wrote a new book called Trains, Buses, People. Christof talks about how transit isn't a mystery and we all know what makes it work. But ultimately we're not having the right conversations. We also review Christof's time on the Houston Metro board and why it's important to have people who ride the bus and think about it all the time as a part of the agency discussion. You can find the book Trains, Buses, People at IslandPress.org

This week we're joined by Anna Muessig of Gehl to chat about using data and tearing down the BQE in New York. Check out the links below to read along with our discussion. News Dutch reach - CityLab Hiring managers discriminate on distance - HBR Oregon considers four units per parcel - Willamette Week Visit our sponsor - moovel Story of the Week Portland to try Google's Replica data program - Oregon Public Broadcasting The Apps know where you are - NY Times Spotlight New Mobility Tear down the BQE - NY Magazine Puppies and Butterflies Kids in Oslo plan transportation - Geospatial World

This week we're going back to Episode 27 to bring back an episode I had made just for kicks in 2014.  It's Walt Disney the city planner.  Hope folks enjoy it again or for the first time if you hadn't heard it before.

This week on Mondays at The Overhead Wire Chrissy Mancini Nichols joins to talk about bad Muni, holiday cities, and lots of mobility discussions. The News Madrid bans cars from central city - Guardian A new AV Start bill? - The Verge Minneapolis passes 2040 plan - Minneapolis Star Tribune Story of the Week New CA bill for density near transit - LA Times Building slow lanes - Forbes Spotlight New Mobility Should Cincinnati built its own app - CityBeat Puppies and Butterflies The Laughing Room - MIT News

This week we chat with Professor Deborah Salon of Arizona State about location value capture. Deborah talks about the difference between location and land value capture and we go over the main points of a research study on the subject she wrote with several colleagues. We also chat about where location value capture shouldn't be used and whether certain mechanisms such as TIF take too much value for individual projects.

This week on Mondays at The Overhead Wire Anna Muessig of Gehl joins to chat about her trip to Australia, Minneapolis 2040, and we have fun discussing mobility monopolies. Below are links to stories we talked about this week. News Modern Trains - Streetsblog USA New York considers banning cashless business - Guardian Death of Montreal Bagels? Globe and Mail Story of the Week Minneapolis' radical rezoning - Curbed Lina Hidalgo to run Harris County - New York Magazine Spotlight New Mobility Becoming the Amazon of Transport - The Conversation Puppies and Butterflies The first condo - Price Tags

This week we're joined by Dr. Manuel Pastor, Professor of Sociology and American Studies & Ethnicity, University of Southern California, and Director of USC’s Program for Environmental and Regional Equity (PERE) and the USC Center for the Study of Immigrant Integration (CSII). We chat about a broad range of topics including the Environmental Justice Screening Method and how that research was turned into California environmental policy. The importance of community organizing in getting agreement for legislation, his new book The State of Resistance, as well as his views on rent control as public policy.   This episode was first aired at Rail~Volution.org

This week on Mondays we talk about closing down the GM plant in Youngstown Ohio, climate change, more on housing, and Virgin Trains USA.  We have a bit of a technical issue but hopefully you still enjoy the show.  Below are links to the items we discussed. News Three Big Climate Takeaways - Vox All Cash Purchases Must be Disclosed - 6sqft Trump Administration floats sharing census information with law enforcement - Washington Post Story of the Week Why affordable housing is scarce in progressive cities - Curbed $17 trillion could be saved with compact development - WRI Spotlight New Mobility Bright line will change name to Virgin Trains - Miami Herald Puppies and Butterflies Bruce Hallman and the SF Faces - Mission Local

This week we talk about Baby Boomer housing, Amazon, and decriminalization of transit fares. News Decriminalizing Fare Evasion - The Hill Autonomous Delivery Vehicles - Fast Company Amazon Won't Save Your Town - New York Times Story of the Week Baby Boomers Not Buying Homes - MNN Spotlight New Mobility Portland's Little Big Shift - Sightline Puppies and Butterflies Sharing a home with older residents - Guardian

This week we're joined by Professor Ralph Buehler of Virginia Tech who talks with us about the German transport concept of Verkehrsverbund (VV). The word translated to English means "transport network".  We discuss where the first VV was formed and how more integrated systems could make transport in the United States more efficient and connected. There's also a discussion about docked bike share as well as how we can think about mobility as a service platforms in the future and their relationship to existing transport systems. 

This week we're joined by Chrissy Mancini Nichols to talk about the election, scooter data, and cities from scratch. Below are some of the pieces we covered... News Clickwork in Nairobi - BoingBoing Rep. Peter DeFazio sees a bill - Washington Post Scooter corrals in Santa Monica - LA Streetsblog Atlanta approves the gulch - Curbed Atlanta Story of the Week Cities and scooter data - Wired Nevada and the bitcoin city - NY Times Cities from scratch - Bloomberg

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.