Talking Headways: A Streetsblog Podcast

This week we're joined by Corrigan Salerno of Transportation For America. We discuss three transportation principles for a better federal transportation bill, how to create better reporting data for MPOs, and better bus manufacturing. +++ Get the show ad free on Patreon ! Follow us on Bluesky, Threads, Instagram, YouTube, Flickr, Substack ... @theoverheadwire Follow us on Mastadon  theoverheadwire...

This week on Mondays at The Overhead Wire we chat about signal timing tinkering in Houston, the impact of commute times on sleep disorders, Phoenix's lack of water for sprawl, and how many times Raleigh had to bid for contractors to build bus rapid transit. Below are the show notes: Houston signal timing off - Rice Thresher Whitmire thinks he knows - New York Times Sleep impacted by commutes - Sci...

This week we're back live for another show from Manny's in the Mission featuring Streetsblog SF editor Roger Rudick interviewing California High Speed Rail Authority CEO Ian Choudri. They chat about reducing costs, systems in other countries, and take questions from the audience. +++ Get the show ad free on Patreon ! Follow us on Bluesky, Threads, Instagram, YouTube, Flickr, Substack ... @theoverh...

This week Sarah Goodyear and Doug Gordon of the War on Cars podcast join the show to talk about their new book: Life After Cars – Freeing Ourselves from the Tyranny of the Automobile . We discuss opposing views, Turtle Jesus, and potential offramps towards car free cities. +++ Get the show ad free on Patreon ! Follow us on Bluesky, Threads, Instagram, YouTube, Flickr, Substack ... @theoverheadwire...

This week on Talking Headways we're flashing back to exactly ten years ago to Episode 78 with Dr. Kevin Gurney, now at Northern Arizona University. We chat about measuring emissions at the street, block, and neighborhood level and the data that enables it.  I wanted to flash back to this one this week because I recently saw Kevin pop up in a New York Times article discussing all the work that the...

This week on the Talking Headways podcast we're joined by Ben Donsky of Agora Partners to discuss City Walk BHAM in Birmingham Alabama, a public space project that connects two sides of the city separated by a highway. We chat about positive public space and what it takes to make projects like this happen. +++ Get the show ad free on Patreon ! Follow us on Bluesky, Threads, Instagram, YouTube, Fli...

We're Han Solo again but this time I'm sharing some thoughts from my trip to China in addition to the news.  We've got stories about traffic lights in Japan, the creation of a new electric company, and housing costs. And of course there's much much more. Below are the show notes: Middle class housing - National Housing Conference China builds quickly - Vox Ann Arbor reinvinting power company - Fas...

This week we're joined by Adele Houghton of the Harvard School of Public Health and Carlos Castillo-Salgado of the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health to discuss their new book Architectural Epidemiology: Architecture as a Mechanism for Designing a Healthier, More Sustainable, and Resilient World . We chat about how to connect the social and architectural determinants of health before...

This week we're on vacation, but we're flashing back to Episode 391 and chatting with Jonathon Stalls about his wonderful book Walk: Slow Down, Wake Up, and Connect at 1-3 Miles Per Hour . He also talks about Pedestrian Dignity and his 2010 walk across the US. Hope everyone is doing well. I'm in China this month and will be back with new episodes next week, but this week I'm hanging out in Beijing...

This week we're joined by former FHWA Deputy Administrator Andrew Rogers to discuss how congress can help reduce traffic deaths and collisions with the use of technology. We discuss the best time to influence congress on transportation and the crash first, fix later mentality.  Find out more at https://www.marscoalition.org/ +++ Get the show ad free on Patreon ! Follow us on Bluesky, Threads, Inst...

This week we're joined once again by Sam Sargent of VTA for part 2 of a conversation about transit agencies and special projects and programs.   Sam chats with us about Austin's light rail plans, Caltrain electrification and moving diesels to Peru, and gives some thoughts on visionary transit leadership such as Randy Clarke at WMATA. YouTube video of Caltrain heading out on the boat . +++ Get the...

This week on Talking Headways we're joined by Sam Sargent of VTA, formerly Caltrain and Capital Metro, for part 1 of a conversation about transit agencies and special projects and programs. This week Sam chats with us about VTA's history, current projects and future prospects in the South Bay. +++ Get the show ad free on Patreon ! Follow us on Bluesky, Threads, Instagram, YouTube, Flickr, Substack...

This week we're Han Solo but have a lot of great news to share. We talk about the smartest city in the world, Toronto's TOD ambitions, electric car range and much much more! Below are items we shared on the show: Main Items Toronto's TOD - Brandon Donnelly The smartest city - Reasons to be Cheerful Less range - InsideEVs Future of cooling is past - Atmos Grocery robot - The Verge DOT repaints Puls...

This week on the Talking Headways podcast we're joined by professor Daniel Wortel-London to discuss his new book The Menace of Prosperity: New York City and the Struggle for Economic Development, 1875–1981 .  We talk about urban growth and missed opportunities by reformers to allow cities to capture more of their value. We discuss Henry George and the land tax movement, what running a city like a...

This week we're joined by Ryan Russo, Executive Director of the National Association of City Transportation Officials (NACTO). Ryan shares with us more wisdom from the revised Urban Bikeway Design Guide and discusses the transformation of street systems and managing space for people and deliveries. NACTO Urban Bikeway Design Guide Online | Physical Book Urban Delivery by Bike Practitioner Paper ++...

This week we're Han Solo on Mondays but we've got a lot of news and information for you! We cover the bipartisan housing bill, the impact of new housing stock on older rentals, disgust for density, the car colors that make cities hotter and much more! Check out the show notes below! Bipartisan housing bill proposed - Washington Post New housing slows rent growth - Pew Trusts Cities shifting from s...

This week on the Talking Headways podcast we're joined once again by Colin Parent of Circulate San Diego to discuss a new report entitled The Powerless Brokers: Why California Can't Build Transit . We talk about permitting delays and reforms, public sector capacity, and giving transit authorities more authority. +++ Get the show ad free on Patreon ! Follow us on Bluesky, Threads, Instagram, YouTub...

This week we're joined by Emily Laflamme of the Center for Neighborhood Technology in Chicago. Emily chats about the Elevated Works technical assistance program that helps developers bring equitable TOD to life. +++ Get the show ad free on Patreon ! Follow us on Bluesky, Threads, Instagram, YouTube, Flickr, Substack ... @theoverheadwire Follow us on Mastadon  theoverheadwire@sfba.social Support th...

This week on Mondays at The Overhead Wire we're joined by James Llamas, now at Nelson Nygaard, to chat about a number of different items including Vietnam's move to ban gas powered motorbikes in central Hanoi, the importance of walking to your health, racing the 8 bus in Seattle, Brightline's death toll, and the 8D magical city of Chongqing.  Below are the show notes! Vietnam to ban gas bikes - El...

This week we're joined by Mark Kabbash, founder of The Dandy Horse. He chats with us about a new system for measuring and verifying bike commuting to obtain carbon avoidance credits. We chat about how the system works and the funding it could generate.  Find out more about Mark's work at Linked In +++ Get the show ad free on Patreon ! Follow us on Bluesky, Threads, Instagram, YouTube, Flickr, Subs...

This week we're joined once again by professor Karel Martens of Technion Israel Institute of Technology . We learn about how transportation engineering is good at measuring only one problem and ignoring others and a new tool to determine the success of transportation systems. Fair Transport Lab Website A scale for describing people's mobility status - Findings Press +++ Get the show ad free on Pat...

This week we're joined by Oxford Ohio City Councilor and Miami of Ohio geography professor, David Prytherch. We chat about his new book Reclaiming the Road: Mobility Justice beyond Complete Streets . We chat about how pandemic open street experiments were rediscovering original uses, the cognitive benefits of experiencing car free streets, the opening of a democratic space for a discussion of what...

This week we're Han Solo but we've got some great items to discuss with you all. We talk about how Salt Lake lost its street design, how Charlottesville lost its zoning code, and the importance of transit to the justice system.   Post Items Stop building highways - Bloomberg CityLab No zoning in Charlottesville - Charlottesville Tomorrow How Utah took away SLC's streets - Building Salt Lake Transi...

This week on the Talking Headways podcast we're joined by Adie Tomer of Brookings to discuss a paper he and his team wrote about the idea of regional block grants . He discusses the local subsidies going to state DOTs and how more local funding could mean more regional collaboration on infrastructure. +++ Get the show ad free on Patreon ! Follow us on Bluesky, Threads, Instagram, YouTube, Flickr,...

This week we're joined by David Hencher, Director of the Institute of Transport and Logistics Studies at the University of Sydney.   David chats about how to fix Mobility as a Service, why transportation providers aren't home base for these services, and proposes a new way to reduce travel and emissions called Mobility as a Feature .   +++ Get the show ad free on Patreon ! Follow us on Bluesky, Th...