Episode 14: Taking Transit Numbers for a Spin
Talking Headways: A Streetsblog Podcast
English - March 13, 2014 15:58 - 35 minutes - 32.9 MB - ★★★★★ - 157 ratingsGovernment News pedestrian planning safe urbanism america bicycling cities livability streets streetsblog Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
Previous Episode: Episode 13: Live (Well, Taped) from the National Bike Summit
Next Episode: Episode 15: From the Free Market to the Flea Market
What a week! Transit numbers skyrocketed (ahem, by 1.1 percent) to levels not seen since 1956 (depending how you look at it). And Radio Shack is shutting down 20 percent of its stores. And there's a new video game for transit nerds to stay up all night obsessing over!
And we tackle the fundamental question of how to make a real change in how people get around. Will it happen just by improving transit and other modes -- or do you need to make driving less appealing, as Emily Badger suggests in Atlantic Cities?
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