Talking Headways: A Streetsblog Podcast

This week we're joined by David Hensher, Director of the Institute of Transport and Logistics Studies at the University of Sydney. David chats about how to fix Mobility as a Service and proposes a new way to reduce travel and emissions called Mobility as a Feature. Follow us on twitter @theoverheadwire Follow us on Mastadon theoverheadwire@sfba.social Support the show on Patreon http://patreon.com/theoverheadwire Buy books on our Bookshop.org Affiliate site! And get our Cars are Cholesterol shirt at Tee-Public! And everything else at http://theoverheadwire.com

This week we're joined by Oregon Metro Council President Lynn Peterson to talk about her book Roadways for People: Rethinking Transportation Planning and Engineering. We chat about better project scoping, capacity building, engineers going to actually walk and bike their project areas, and highway expansion in cities. OOO Follow us on twitter @theoverheadwire Follow us on Mastadon theoverheadwire@sfba.social Support the show on Patreon http://patreon.com/theoverheadwire Buy books on our Bookshop.org Affiliate site! And get our Cars are Cholesterol shirt at Tee-Public! And everything else at http://theoverheadwire.com

This week on the show we talk about a whole lot of different topics from bus stop requests, bus electrification, and health care streets. Main Links Request stops - Next City Chicago electric buses - Associated Press We Buy Houses - The Philadelphia Citizen French cities ban billboards - Marketplace Utah DOT wants to build a gondola - Motherboard Homeowners Assoc war on environment - Wired 2,000 without water - Fast Company Bonus Items Housing voucher wait list - Arizona Republic The health street - ArchDaily Colorado funding change - Colorado Sun Air pollution paradox - USC Price Amazon pauses HQ2 - New York Times Global SUV Emissions - Guardian Surveillence through sports - The Atlantic Highway policy memo changes - Route Fifty France 100b euros for transit - Reuters Austin signs with USDOT - USDOT OOO Follow us on twitter @theoverheadwire Follow us on Mastadon theoverheadwire@sfba.social Support the show on Patreon http://patreon.com/theoverheadwire Buy books on our Bookshop.org Affiliate site! And get our Cars are Cholesterol shirt at Tee-Public! And everything else at http://theoverheadwire.com

This week on the podcast we are back at the Rail~Volution conference in Miami last fall. We chat with Commissioner Eileen Higgins about the South Dade Busway, the importance of FTA ratings in getting projects built, and why she thinks it's important as an elected official to ride transit. Also, the MPact transit + communities conference call for speakers is now open! OOO Follow us on twitter @theoverheadwire Follow us on Mastadon theoverheadwire@sfba.social Support the show on Patreon http://patreon.com/theoverheadwire Buy books on our Bookshop.org Affiliate site! And get our Cars are Cholesterol shirt at Tee-Public! And everything else at http://theoverheadwire.com

This week we're joined by Dr. Jennifer Kent, Senior Research Fellow in Urbanism at the University of Sydney, to talk about her work on family transportation, the messiness of travel for parents, and loneliness and the built environment. OOO Follow us on twitter @theoverheadwire Follow us on Mastadon theoverheadwire@sfba.social Support the show on Patreon http://patreon.com/theoverheadwire Buy books on our Bookshop.org Affiliate site! And get our Cars are Cholesterol shirt at Tee-Public! And everything else at http://theoverheadwire.com

This week on Mondays we're again Han Solo, but don't let that stop you from listening in to all the news from the last couple of weeks! We chat about the 15 Minute City conspiracy, why the American Association of Railroads is against electrification, and Wales' climate action on roads. Below are the links from stories we talked about in the show notes! News Items Anti-electrification - Clean Technica Converting diesel to electric research - Nature Brussels traffic plan - The Mayor.eu Ghent traffic reduction - Sky News 15 minute cities conspiracy theory - New Statesman More conspiracy Guardian | CNN | Slate Flood zone properties overvalued - Grist Rethinking one hour deliveries - Streetsblog USA Welsh road climate review - Guardian Bonus Items Park city underground - KPCW Recycling building materials - ArchDaily | BBC Future Healthy cities more sidewalks - Bloomberg CityLab Convenience store crashes - Smart Cities Dive 20mph speed limits - Intelligent Transport Remote work costs Manhattan - Bloomberg Amsterdam's housing plans - Euractiv LA wants to destroy 13K trees - LA Daily News Berlin's plan for car free neighborhood - Guardian Why aren't teens driving? - Washington Post Teenage brains - National Geographic OOO Follow us on twitter @theoverheadwire Follow us on Mastadon theoverheadwire@sfba.social Support the show on Patreon http://patreon.com/theoverheadwire Buy books on our Bookshop.org Affiliate site! And get our Cars are Cholesterol shirt at Tee-Public! And everything else at http://theoverheadwire.com

This week we're joined by Diane Jones Allen, Program Director for Landscape Architecture at the University of Texas at Arlington. We chat about her work on food deserts and transportation access and the American Society of Landscape Architects Climate Action Plan. OOO Follow us on twitter @theoverheadwire Follow us on Mastadon theoverheadwire@sfba.social Support the show on Patreon http://patreon.com/theoverheadwire Buy books on our Bookshop.org Affiliate site! And get our Cars are Cholesterol shirt at Tee-Public! And everything else at http://theoverheadwire.com

This week we're going to the Rail~Volution (Now MPact) Conference in Miami. Daniel Gibson of Regional Vice President of Miami Dade Allegany Franciscan Ministries moderates a panel featuring LA Metro CEO Stephanie Wiggins, SEPTA CEO Leslie Richards, and Diana Stanley, CEO of homeless services provider The Lord's Place to talk about homelessness and public transportation. They chat about the need for more federal agency coordination between transportation, health, and human services as well as how transit agencies are tackling the issues vulnerable populations face. OOO Follow us on twitter @theoverheadwire Follow us on Mastadon theoverheadwire@sfba.social Support the show on Patreon http://patreon.com/theoverheadwire Buy books on our Bookshop.org Affiliate site! And get our Cars are Cholesterol shirt at Tee-Public! And everything else at http://theoverheadwire.com

This week we're Han Solo but we do talk about a LOT of news from around the country! We chat about Denver's successful e-bike pilot, biodiversity in cities, transit project costs report, Pittsburgh rethinks its budget based on climate change, and much much more! News Denver's e-bike success - Smart Cities Dives Biodiversity in cities - The New Republic Transit Costs Project Executive Summary - TCP Construction Productivity - New York Times Best new bike lanes - People for Bikes Pittsburgh redoes budget - Grist Gender equality in transport - Eltis Rent control for who? - Governing Bonus Items Parking spaces too small - Motherboard Mexico city migration - Compact Magazine Small investments better than bigger ones - Guardian Apartment construction highest since 73 - Route Fifty Lifestyle rail - Forbes Consumption based emissions - Helsinki Times TfL developing land - Transport Xtra Roosevelt Boulevard subway gets cold shoulder - Inquirer Puppies and Butterflies Edible cement - ArchDaily Monorail episode oral history - The Ringer OOO Follow us on twitter @theoverheadwire Follow us on Mastadon theoverheadwire@sfba.social Support the show on Patreon http://patreon.com/theoverheadwire Buy books on our Bookshop.org Affiliate site! And get our Cars are Cholesterol shirt at Tee-Public! And everything else at http://theoverheadwire.com

This week we're joined by Greg Shill, Professor of Law at the University of Iowa, and Jonathan Levine, Professor of Urban and Regional Planning at the University of Michigan to talk about their paper, First Principals in Transportation Law and Policy. We talk about how to rethink transportation metrics towards accessibility, how the law has embedded mobility in transportation, and why we really travel. OOO Follow us on twitter @theoverheadwire Follow us on Mastadon theoverheadwire@sfba.social Support the show on Patreon http://patreon.com/theoverheadwire Buy books on our Bookshop.org Affiliate site! And get our Cars are Cholesterol shirt at Tee-Public! And everything else at http://theoverheadwire.com