Thomas Barakat

Good Roads Podcast

Government EN ↓ 61 episodes

Good Roads publishes a quarterly magazine that looks at all things infrastructure and transportation that effects our municipal members across Ontario. In this podcast we will select a couple of interesting or pressing articles from the magazine and expand upon and discuss them.

Author

Thomas Barakat

Episodes

Episode 10 - The 413, The Sprawl and Ontario's Future 12.04.2021 54:19

Intro Music: Higher Up by Shane Ivers - https://www.silvermansound.com 2021 OGRA Conference - http://www. OGRAConference.ca Why objections to Highway 413 are misguided - https://www.thestar.com/autos/opinion/2021/03/27/why-objections-to-highway-413-are-misguided.html Ontario's 34 Billion Dollar Roads Deficit: https://www.ogra.org/member-services/index.html Watch us on YouTube: https://youtu.be/m_...

Episode 9 - Local Leadership to a Net-Zero World ft. David Miller 01.02.2021 40:51

Intro Music: Higher Up by Shane Ivers - https://www.silvermansound.com Mixing and Mastering by Proximity Sound - http://www.proximitysound.com/ C40 Climate Leadership Group - https://www.c40.org/ Milestones Magazine: Interaction with David Miller - https://online.fliphtml5.com/jgfei/capz/#p=32 Halifax Carbon Concrete Startup - https://www.theglobeandmail.com/business/article-concrete-from-east-coa...

Episode 8 - The rEVolution ft. Cara Clairman 11.01.2021 51:47

Intro Music: Higher Up by Shane Ivers - https://www.silvermansound.com Mixing and Mastering by Proximity Sound Plug n' Drive - https://www.plugndrive.ca/ Condo Charging - https://www.plugndrive.ca/condo-charging/ Milestones Magazine: My Journey to an Electric Vehicle - https://online.fliphtml5.com/jgfei/capz/#p=28 PlugShare - https://www.plugshare.com/ Fleet Carma - https://www.fleetcarma.com/evol...

Episode 7 - Petroleum, On the Precipice of a Green New World ft. Jarret Coels 19.11.2020 46:51

Intro Music: Higher Up by Shane Ivers - https://www.silvermansound.com Mixing and Mastering by Proximity Sound - http://proximitysound.com/ CAPP Context - https://context.capp.ca/ Oil producers and Geothermal Energy - https://oilprice.com/Alternative-Energy/Geothermal-Energy/Could-Oil-Drillers-Make-Geothermal-Energy-Go-Mainstream.html Plastic is "part of the solution" to climate change - www. Deze...

Episode 6 - Feeling the Chill ft. Rob Burlie 19.10.2020 36:49

Intro Music: Higher Up by Shane Ivers - https://www.silvermansound.com Mixing and Mastering by Proximity Sound Managing Winter Operations Workshop - https://cvent.me/MQaDWa Pickering Operations Centre Opening - http://online.fliphtml5.com/jgfei/tvmz/#p=19 City of Pickering Operations Portal - https://www.pickering.ca/en/living/interactive-winter-operations-map.aspx Milestones Fall 2020 - https://...

Episode 5 - A Fond Farewell ft. Joe Tiernay 13.07.2020 39:53

Intro Music: Higher Up by Shane Ivers - https://www.silvermansound.com The Seventh Son - theseventhson.ca/ The Silverbacks - thesilverbacks.ca/ OGRA Webinars - https://www.ogra.org/covid19/webinars.html www. OGRA.org For questions or comments drop us a message at podcast@ogra.org

Episode 4 - 2+1 Roads ft. Mark Wilson 16.06.2020 34:17

Intro Music: Higher Up by Shane Ivers - https://www.silvermansound.com 2020 Milestones: Summer Edition - http://online.fliphtml5.com/jgfei/ljvb/#p=4 2019 OGRA Conference: Mark Wilson - https://youtu.be/1Zf0JG8i6bU?t=4745 www. OGRA.org For questions or comments drop us a message at podcast@ogra.org

Episode 3 - Where We Go From Here 24.04.2020 32:49

Intro Music: Higher Up by Shane Ivers - https://www.silvermansound.com Ottawa seeks ‘shovel-ready’ projects for post shutdown stimulus plan - https://www.theglobeandmail.com/politics/article-mckenna-seeking-shovel-ready-projects-for-post-shutdown-stimulus/ COVID-19 crisis creates chance to re-examine provincial funding of cities - https://www.thestar.com/opinion/contributors/2020/04/06/covid-19-cr...

Episode 2 - From the Show Floor 04.03.2020 39:06

Intro Music: Higher Up by Shane Ivers - https://www.silvermansound.com 2020 OGRA Conference: Dr. Daniel Bear www. OGRA.org For questions or comments drop us a message at podcast@ogra.org

Episode 1 - A Vision for the Future 20.01.2020 32:36

Intro Music: Higher Up by Shane Ivers - https://www.silvermansound.com Milestones Podcast Episode 0: https://milestones-the-podcast.simplecast.com/episodes OGRA Conference Site: http://ograconference.ca/ Toronto's Ambitious EV Strategy: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/very-ambitious-new-strategy-aims-to-make-all-toronto-transportation-electric-by-2050-1.5419520 City of Pickering's New Opera...

Episode 0 - The Pilot 12.12.2019 35:44

Intro Music: Higher Up by Shane Ivers - https://www.silvermansound.com 2019 Milestones Winter Edition: http://online.fliphtml5.com/jgfei/tvmz/ Vision Zero Press Conference: https://www.ogra.org/VisionZero.html www. OGRA.org For questions or comments drop us a message at podcast@ogra.org