Talking Headways: A Streetsblog Podcast

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 Spotli...

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 lev...

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 developm...

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 C...

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...

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 - Orego...

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 M...

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 f...

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 r...

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 turne...

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...

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 reside...

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 a...

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 an...

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. 

This week the team talks about voting and San Francisco's fight between billionaire's over homelessness measures. We chat about how in Estonia you can keep your data and more about MIT's Moral Machine experiment asking people around the world about the trolley problem. Here are the articles we covered... Moral Machine - MIT Technology Review Billionaire War - Wired Magazine Own Your Own Data - Sma...

This week California State Senator Scott Wiener joins us to talk about a number of issues near and dear to our heart including housing and transportation. We talk about what's holding California housing back and several of his bills that address this in the Senate including SB35 as well as the potential return next year of SB827 which would upzone housing near frequent transit. We also chat about...

This week on Talking Headways we're joined by Eric Singer and Andrej Micovic, Associates at Bilzin Sumberg in Miami who talk about the creation of the RTZ ordinance. They also talk about how the recent TIF districts and the county's Strategic Miami Area Rapid Transit (SMART) Plan interact with the RTZ and what's important in writing planning code.

This week we're joined by Dr. Kari Watkins, Associate Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Georgia Tech and co-founder and "Chief Motivator" of OneBusAway, an open source platform for real time transit info. Kari talks about her research into the role of technology in the evolving transit experience, possible "dangerous futures ahead" - such as zero-passenger vehicles - and the "bes...

Welcome to our NEW SHOW on the Talking Headways Podcast Network called Mondays at The Overhead Wire where Jeff and a rotating band of amazing co-hosts talk about the top stories from TheOverheadWire.com.  This week Anna Muessig of Gehl joins to talk about her trip to Copenhagen, AVs, and Uber's move into congestion pricing advocacy. And don't forget to visit our sponsor moovel . Featured Discussio...

This week we're joined by Carol Kuester and Lysa Hale of the Metropolitan Transportation Commission's Electronic Payments Department. Carol and Lysa talk about the Clipper transit fare payment card and how it works along with coming updates to the system.  We also chat about fare simplification and what it means to different people, whether Clipper can be a first step towards mobility as a service...

Welcome to our NEW SHOW on the Talking Headways Podcast Network called Mondays at The Overhead Wire where Jeff and a rotating band of amazing co-hosts talk about the top stories from TheOverheadWire.com.  This week Chrissy Mancini Nichols of Walker Consultants joins to talk about developers and parking, bike share data, and we go through the week's news. Follow us on twitter @theoverheadwire @Manc...