Talking Headways: A Streetsblog Podcast
653 episodes - English - Latest episode: 13 days ago - ★★★★★ - 154 ratingsA weekly podcast about the intersection between sustainable transportation, urban planning, and economic development. Hosted by Jeff Wood of The Overhead Wire.
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Episode 318: Open Source Electric Bus
January 28, 2021 06:35 - 29 minutes - 18.9 MBThis week we’re joined by Erica Eggleton, a PhD Candidate at the University of Washington to chat about her work on Route Dynamics, an open source program that estimates the energy demand for electric bus routes run by King County Metro. We talk about how Route Dynamics calculates electric bus energy consumption and how it might be useful to transit agencies.
Episode 80: Mondays at The Overhead Wire - Addicted to Linked In
January 26, 2021 08:28 - 1 hour - 42.9 MBThis week on the Mondays show Dawn Miller, VP for Policy and Partnerships at Coord and Chrissy Mancini Nichols join the show. We chat about Mayor Pete's Senate hearing, Sacramento's move away from single family zoning, and Dallas' new mobility plan. We also talk a bit about DOT political appointments and Bernie's Wild Ride. Follow us on twitter @theoverheadwire Support us at http://patreon.com/theoverheadwire Get a Bus Only Scarf at http://theoverheadwire.com
Episode 317: Transportation and Law Part 2
January 21, 2021 06:25 - 58 minutes - 34 MBThis week we’re headed back to the Iowa Law Review’s Symposium The Future of Law and Transportation. In Part 2 of this series, Professor Jonathan Levine moderates a panel of four including Professor David Prytherch, Professor Jamila Jefferson-Jones, Professor Tara Goddard, and Professor Vanessa Casado Perez on the topic of Rights of Way and Public Space.
Episode 79: Mondays at The Overhead Wire - The Stop Sign Line
January 19, 2021 08:20 - 1 hour - 44.2 MBThis week Tracy McMillan joins the show to chat about what a Biden Administration can do for localities, climate change in the Great Lakes, Paris' participatory budget, and what the commute means to everyone. Odds and Ends Using Federal Power to liberate localities - Washington Monthly Stop lines don't stop traffic - Route Fifty Paris' participatory budget - City Monitor Climate change and winter festivals - Detroit Free Press | National Geographic Did the pandemic kill the comm...
Episode 316: Intro to the City
January 14, 2021 06:05 - 33 minutes - 22.2 MBThis week we’re joined by Professor Sean Benesh to talk about his new book Intro to the City. We chat about his love of Pre-Colombian cities, how being an ordained pastor connects to his urban thinking, and some thoughts about opening your mind when it comes to place. Follow us @theoverheadwire on twitter Support the pod on Patreon http://patreon.com/theoverheadwire
Episode 315: The Answer is the Arterial
January 07, 2021 06:39 - 59 minutes - 35.8 MBThis week we’re going back to the 2020 Rail~Volution conference where Peter Calthorpe gave the keynote speech with Allison Brooks of the Bay Area Regional Collaborative. They discuss the next generation of TOD and housing on major arterials.
Replay: The First Shoupista
December 24, 2020 12:48 - 48 minutes - 31 MBThis week we're replaying one of our most popular episodes in the last few years. Patrick Siegman of Siegman & Associates joins the podcast for spirited discussion about parking. We chat about the etymology of the word parking, the legend that is Donald Shoup, and why the topic of parking gets so personal.
Episode 78: Mondays at the Overhead Wire - Mayor Pete
December 22, 2020 06:55 - 58 minutes - 42.3 MBThis week Chrissy Mancini Nichols and Jerome Horne join the show to talk about the nomination of former South Bend Indiana Mayor Pete Buttigieg to the post of Transportation Secretary. That's it, that's the topic on this end of the year Mondays at The Overhead Wire. For those interested in some of the items I mentioned in the show to check out, the links are below. Mexico's Right to Mobility Amendment - City Fix Oil Companies and Car Companies Turn - The Atlantic Climate Warnings on ...
Episode 314: Infrastructure Only Limited by Our Imagination
December 17, 2020 06:32 - 45 minutes - 25.6 MBThis week we’re talking with Katy Knight, Executive Director of the Siegel Family Endowment. We chat about the endowment’s recent Infrastructure report entitled Rebuilding America: The Road Ahead which discusses a future where digital, physical, and social infrastructure connect. Katy talks with us about the importance of governance, the two way conversations we should be having with elected officials, distributing investments intelligently, and the importance of greater thinking about socia...
Episode 313: Location Does Matter
December 10, 2020 06:13 - 55 minutes - 34 MBThis week we’re joined by Carrie Makarewicz, Assistant Professor at the University of Colorado at Denver, Prentiss Dantzler, Assistant Professor at Georgia State University, and Arlie Adkins, Associate Professor at The University of Arizona to talk about their paper in Housing Policy Debate: Another Look at Location Affordability: Understanding the Detailed Effects of Income and Urban Form on Housing and Transportation Expenditures. The paper looks at how households with varied incomes spe...
Episode 77: Mondays at The Overhead Wire - Zero Fares, Zero Emissions, Zero Losses
December 08, 2020 08:13 - 46 minutes - 31.4 MBThis week on the Mondays show we're back on Election Night! Danny Katz of Colorado PIRG learns live on the air that his ballot measure won and Missoula Montana Mountain Line GM Corey Aldridge tells us all about their zero fare program, their coming zero emissions buses, and what an election win (they won!) would mean for the transit agency.
Episode 312: Building Community in North Philly
December 03, 2020 07:19 - 54 minutes - 34.6 MBThis week on the podcast, Nilda Ruiz and Rose Gray of Asociación Puertorriqueños en Marcha (APM) join the show to talk about how they’ve been able to build community through TOD while promoting health, wellness, and a green future.
Episode 76: Mondays at The Overhead Wire - Future Federal Transport Policy
December 01, 2020 07:07 - 49 minutes - 32.5 MBThis week on the Mondays show we're back to our election night YouTube show chatting with our friends about federal transportation policy! We're also joined by our co-hosts Chrissy Mancini Nichols and Jerome Horne! Hope you enjoy it.
Episode 311: The Energy Efficiency Megatrend
November 19, 2020 06:48 - 35 minutes - 22.2 MBThis week we’re joined by Roger Duncan to talk about his new book with Co-Author Michael Webber called The Future of Transportation, Buildings, and Power. We chat about buildings can get to net zero energy, the changing structure of public utilities, and the energy efficiency megatrend.
Episode 75: Mondays at The Overhead Wire - Lessons from the Field
November 17, 2020 07:59 - 1 hour - 50.7 MBAgain our friends from election night! That’s right, we’re sharing some of our election night shenanigans from the live stream we did on YouTube. You can still find the original 7 hour video there to see everyone’s backgrounds and setups but we’re cutting it down here into some more bite size bits. On this Mondays we’re sharing our discussions with Odetta Macleish White from the Transformation Alliance in Atlanta, Robin Hutcheson of the City of Minneapolis, and Darnell Grisby from Transf...
Episode 310: Transportation and Law Part 1
November 12, 2020 07:50 - 50 minutes - 29.7 MBThis week we’re headed to the Iowa Law Review’s Symposium "The Future of Law and Transportation". In this episode, we are sharing a panel on transportation and land use featuring Jonathan Levine, Audrey McFarlane, and Sara Bronin. Jonathan Levine of the Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning at the University of Michigan discusses his paper ‘Transportation Policy Entrenchment: Institutional Barriers to Accessibility Based Planning” Audrey McFarlane, Associate Dean of Faculty ...
Episode 74: Mondays at the Overhead Wire - Texas Election Night
November 10, 2020 04:00 - 53 minutes - 34.3 MBThis week on Mondays we're taking some audio from our election night live stream and sharing it with folks. Chrissy Mancini Nichols and Jerome Horne join us on election night as we talked with local agency folks in Texas about their ballot measures.
Episode 309: From Docked to Dockless
November 05, 2020 06:22 - 41 minutes - 27 MBThis week we’re joined by Kyle Rowe, Global Head of Government Partnerships at SPIN. We chat with Kyle about his work with Seattle DOT transitioning from docked to dockless bike share, the impact of ride hailing on micromobility adoption, and the future of his industry. Follow us on twitter @theoverheadwire Support us on Patreon at http://patreon.com/theoverheadwire
Series Preview: Densely Speaking - Infrastructure Costs
November 03, 2020 06:20 - 59 minutes - 34.5 MBThis week we're doing another series preview sharing a podcast we enjoy here at The Overhead Wire. Densely Speaking is a podcast by Jeffrey Lin and Greg Shill discussing cities, economics and law. You can subscribe to Densely Speaking wherever you get your podcasts. On this episode! Professor Leah Brooks, economist and Associate Professor of Public Policy and Public Affairs at the George Washington University's Trachtenberg School of Public Policy and Public Affairs, joins the show to d...
Episode 308: Disabled by a World Full of Stairs
October 29, 2020 06:05 - 47 minutes - 30.2 MBThis week we’re joined by Sara Hendren, author of the book What Can a Body Do? How We Meet the Built World. Sara chats with us about how we think and talk about disability, reframing independent living, and designing a humane world for everyone.
Episode 73: Mondays at The Overhead Wire - Garfield Halloween
October 27, 2020 05:07 - 31 minutes - 33.8 MBThis week we're on our own as we prepare for our election night extravaganza! We cover Charlotte's City Council squabbles, take a trip to Helsinki, and think about how pollution causes neurodegenerative diseases. Odds and Ends Charlotte council can't get along - Charlotte Agenda Personal sustainability in Helsinki - New York Times Air pollution and children's brains - Guardian A path to progressive transport - Transport Politic Elon's tunnel in Vegas won't hit targets - Tech Crun...
Episode 307: The Ghost Road
October 22, 2020 05:49 - 47 minutes - 31.5 MBThis week we’re chatting with Anthony Townsend about his book Ghost Road: Beyond The Driverless Car. We talk about the potential scary future financialization of transportation could create, how the pandemic has shot delivery automation into the future, and what the potential future of self driving vehicles could mean for urban form.
Episode 306: Delivering Goods Autonomously
October 15, 2020 07:37 - 34 minutes - 23.7 MBThis week we’re joined by Matthew Lipka, Head of Policy at Nuro. We chat about how autonomous delivery can help get people goods they need, the difference between transporting goods and people, and whether people can still pick their own produce.
Episode 72: Mondays at The Overhead Wire - Zero Emissions Neighborhood
October 13, 2020 04:55 - 32 minutes - 33.4 MBThis week we're solo as we bring you some news from the last couple of weeks. Small business suffering, zero emissions neighborhoods, and a Venice that doesn't flood. Odds and Ends Self driving years away - ReCode Connecticut zoning challenged - CT Mirror Zero emissions neighborhood - Fast Company A dry Venice - AP Electric bike subsidies - Kinder Institute Small business losses - Salon
Episode 305: The Increments of Neighborhood
October 08, 2020 17:18 - 42 minutes - 24.3 MBThis week we’re chatting with Brian O’Looney about his new book Increments of Neighborhood: A Compendium of Built Types for Walkable and Vibrant Communities. We chat about the housing types in the book, whether big data has a role in housing, and why the basic economics of building matters.
Series Preview: Land Matters Podcast
October 06, 2020 05:52 - 27 minutes - 18.5 MBThis week on Mondays we bring you an episode of the Land Matters podcast from the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy hosted by Anthony Flint. On this episode: The Coronavirus pandemic and growing outrage about racial injustice have underscored the centrality of healthy, well-located, and affordable housing in society. Author Kim Vermeer and smart growth advocate Andre Leroux assess efforts to create more housing options to address longstanding economic and racial disparities. From the L...
Episode 304: Uber's Transit Moves
October 01, 2020 05:21 - 43 minutes - 28.4 MBThis week on the podcast we're joined by Chris Pangilinan, Head of Global Policy for Public Transportation at Uber. He talks with us about walled gardens, Uber's partnerships with transit agencies, accessibility on transit and much more.
Episode 71: Mondays at The Overhead Wire - Blue Bike Tires
September 29, 2020 08:02 - 1 hour - 51.6 MBThis week Chrissy Mancini Nichols and Tracy McMillan join the show to talk about climate change, Netflix taxes, and Dutch shared bikes! Odds and Ends The great climate migration - New York Times NCDOT purchases rail ROW - News and Observer Houston to Dallas HSR - Houston Chronicle Towns sue streaming companies - Hollywood Reporter Europe's blue bikes - Fast Company Support the show on Patreon Follow us @theoverheadwire on twitter
Episode 303: A Community Champion
September 24, 2020 05:50 - 40 minutes - 23.1 MBThis week on the podcast we are chatting with Stephanie Gidigbi, Director of Policy and Partnerships for the Natural Resources Defense Council. Stephanie joins us to talk about federal policy, connections between transportation and race, the importance of performance measures, and much more!
Series Preview: Foot Notes Podcast
September 22, 2020 07:07 - 5 minutes - 3.39 MBFoot Notes is an original new podcast about the intersection of walkability and race. Over the course of five episodes, you’ll hear from a variety of transportation planners, researchers, and advocates about the ways in which our current approach to walkability perpetuates racial inequities, and what solutions may be out there. Lily Linke is the host and creator of Foot Notes. She is an artist, educator, and urban planner with a particular passion for creating equitable public spaces thro...
Episode 302: Right of Way with Angie Schmitt
September 17, 2020 05:14 - 35 minutes - 21.5 MBThis week we’re chatting with Angie Schmitt about her new book Right of Way: Race, Class, and the silent epidemic of pedestrian deaths in America. Angie talks with us about why she wrote the book and what she hopes folks can take away from it.
Episode 70: Mondays at The Overhead Wire - Armageddon Layercake
September 15, 2020 09:02 - 1 hour - 55.3 MBThis week we're joined by Joe DiStefano of Urban Footprint to talk about free transit, innovation in cities, building dams for new water resources in Colorado and their work on COVID-19 resources. Talking Headways 183 with Joe Odds and Ends Innovation in time of COVID - Fast Company Free transit trial in LA - LA Streetsblog What Can a Body Do - The New Yorker Colorado water needs - Denver Post COVID hot spots - Urban Footprint
Episode 301: Bringing Back the Carpool
September 10, 2020 05:10 - 45 minutes - 25.7 MBThis week we’re chatting with Dani Simons, Head of Public Sector Partnerships at Waze. Dani chats with us about Waze’s focus on carpooling, how the company uses data to support its users, and her impressions of other country’s transportation progress.
Episode 300!: Town Planning in Practice and a Celebration
September 03, 2020 05:38 - 33 minutes - 27 MBThis week is episode 300!! I can't believe we made it this far! So to celebrate we're sharing chapter one of our recently released audiobook Town Planning in Practice by Raymond Unwin. This classic from 1909 was one of the first to discuss town planning and urban design at the beginning of the 20th century.
Episode 69: Mondays at The Overhead Wire - Machinations of Evil
September 01, 2020 06:59 - 1 hour - 55.4 MBThis week Chrissy Mancini Nichols joins the show to talk about ADUs, heat solutions, curb management and more! Odds and Ends Permanently affordable ADUs - Fast Company Euro cities deal with heatwaves - BBC Portland's new zoning code - Sightline Institute Discrimination in appraisals - NY Times Will curbside pickup last - Stateline Seattle childcare law - The Urbanist Puppies and Butterflies Beer Garden history - Wine Enthusiast Seinfeld on NY - NY Times
Episode 299: Transit in the Pandemic
August 27, 2020 05:06 - 38 minutes - 19.4 MBThis week we're joined by David Huffaker, Chief Development Officer for the Port Authority of Allegheny County in the Pittsburgh region. David joins us to chat about transit operations during the pandemic, emergency planning, the agency's equity index, and the future of streets.
Episode 298: Ian McHarg and Design with Nature
August 20, 2020 18:25 - 43 minutes - 29.1 MBThis week we’re joined by Billy Fleming, Wilks Family Director of the University of Pennsylvania’s McHarg Center to talk about the center’s book Design with Nature Now. We chat about Ian McHarg’s influence and legacy since the original Design with Nature, the influence of his work on GIS and the environmental movement, and how the center seeks to find where design fits into the larger discussion of human life and policy like the Green New Deal.
Episode 68: Mondays at The Overhead Wire - Duckberg Money Bins
August 18, 2020 06:45 - 1 hour - 46.8 MBChrissy Mancini Nichols again joins the show to talk about recent news! Houston climate plans focus on people - New York Times Changing the housing narrative - Shelterforce Dutch city focuses on cooling city - Guardian 1980 Motor Carrier Law led to big box - Business Insider A trick to get more bike lanes - Bloomberg Modular apartment buildings - Fast Company Census ending early - New York Times
Episode 297: Just Sustainabilities with Julian Agyeman
August 13, 2020 04:53 - 42 minutes - 28.4 MBThis week we're joined by Julian Agyeman, Professor at Tufts University, to talk about his work on equity, justice, and environmental sustainability in transportation and urban planning. We talk about food, the idea of belonging in cities, spatial justice, and reframing our language around the ideas of equity, dignity, and justice.
Episode 296: "Stupid Ambitious" in Costa Rica
August 06, 2020 05:21 - 39 minutes - 22.9 MBThis week we’re joined by Andrea San Gil Leon, Director of Agile City Partners, and environmental journalist Jocelyn Timperley to talk about transportation and climate action in Costa Rica. I came across their work after Jocelyn wrote an expansive piece for BBC Future. We chat about Costa Rica’s climate action from forest conservation to eco-tourism and the country’s transportation challenges and potential.
Episode 295: Valuing Black Lives and Property
July 30, 2020 22:09 - 39 minutes - 23.1 MBThis week we're joined by Andre Perry, Metropolitan Policy Fellow at Brookings, to talk about his new book Know Your Price: Valuing Black Lives and Property in America's Black Cities. Andre talks with us about growing up in Wilkinsberg PA and how he crunched the numbers of Black property devaluation in US cities.
Episode 67: Mondays at The Overhead Wire - Two Sides of Telecommuting
July 28, 2020 07:07 - 32 minutes - 24.4 MBThis week on the podcast we have a bunch of things to chat about! Odds and Ends Asheville Reparations - Asheville Citizen Times 45,000 underutilized buildings - Harvard Business Review Wealthier Americans have higher emissions - TreeHugger Positives of telecommuting - Scientific American Negatives of telecommuting - The Conversation Naming heat waves - Fast Company Barcelona taking properties - CityLab Equity and interchanges - Cleveland Plain Dealer
Episode 294: Social Determinants of Health
July 23, 2020 04:57 - 31 minutes - 18.7 MBThis week we're joined by Dr. Georges Benjamin, Director of the American Public Health Association. Dr. Benjamin joins us to talk about the determinants of health and how certain investments can change health outcomes for the better.
Episode 293: Scenario Planning for Cities and Regions
July 16, 2020 06:07 - 41 minutes - 24.3 MBThis week on the podcast we're joined by Rob Goodspeed, Assistant Professor of Urban and Regional Planning at the University of Michigan. Rob joins us to talk about his new book Scenario Planning for Cities and Regions. We chat about early origins of scenario planning, planning vs forecasting, and metrics used to compare scenario effectiveness.
Episode 66: Mondays at the Overhead Wire - Ghost Kitchens
July 14, 2020 08:40 - 58 minutes - 36.2 MBThis week on the show Tracy McMillan joins us to talk about her move to Phoenix, what we're up to during the pandemic, and flood maps! Odds and Ends! Ghost Kitchens - New Yorker Changing Flood Risks - New York Times Search for your flood risk - Floodfactor.com Advocates withdraw freeway support - Willamette Week Phoenix dealing with climate change, heat - Washington Post How Americans spent stimulus money - Route Fifty Urban job escalator has stopped moving - MIT News ...
Episode 292: The Urban Mystique Part 2
July 09, 2020 05:13 - 36 minutes - 23.8 MBThis week we're back chatting with Josh Stephens, Contributing Editor to the California Planning and Development Report. This week we chat about race, housing, the Olympics, and LA in the movies.
Episode 291: The Urban Mystique Part 1
July 02, 2020 05:28 - 38 minutes - 24 MBThis week we’re joined by Josh Stephens, Contributing Editor to the California Planning and Development Report about his new book The Urban Mystique. We had a long conversation about LA, the availability of bars, opposition urban commentators, and historic propositions that might need an update to stay connected to the times.
Episode 65: Mondays at The Overhead Wire - Federal Transport Bill
June 30, 2020 06:14 - 33 minutes - 21.1 MBThis week we're joined by Kevin DeGood, Director of Infrastructure Policy at the Center for American Progress. We talk about the bill that just got out of the Transportation and Infrastructure Committee and will be going to the full house. We also have a couple of odds and ends as usual. Odds and Ends West Coast electric corridor - Seattle Times Denmark's historic agreement - Bloomberg Danish buses go electric - electrik Coronavirus doesn't favor density - US News and World R...
Episode 290: Resiliency in South Florida
June 25, 2020 07:46 - 43 minutes - 22.5 MBThis 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.
Episode 289: Congestion Pricing in the United States
June 18, 2020 04:54 - 35 minutes - 23.2 MBThis 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