Talking Headways: A Streetsblog Podcast

This week on Mondays at The Overhead Wire, we're Han Solo. But that doesn't preclude us from sharing the news from the last few weeks including items on work from home serendipity, weaponizing environmental law, and the suspension of Cruise self driving vehicles. Listen in below and check out the show notes below the fold. Show Notes Main Items City serendipity - New York Times Weaponizing environ...

This week we're joined by Danielle Arigoni, Managing Director for Policy and Solutions at The National Housing Trust.   We chat about Danielle's new book Climate Resilience for an Aging Nation as well as housing policy that benefits everyone. You can find Danielle's book at our Bookshop Affiliate site or at Island Press . OOO Follow us on twitter @theoverheadwire Follow us on Mastadon theoverheadw...

This week we're joined by transit expert and former general manager for three transit systems Ron Kilcoyne. Ron joins us to talk about the importance of running frequent transit service in order to attract riders and how agencies in the Bay Area are underserving the population. Find Ron's Streetsblog SF piece here and the report he did for  Seamless Bay Area . If you want to message Ron, you can d...

This week we're chatting with professor Des Fitzgerald about his new book The Living City: Why Cities Don't Need to Be Green to Be Great . We chat about what trees mean to people, the proliferation of moguls that want to build new cities, and the idea of what makes the good city. OOO Follow us on twitter @theoverheadwire Follow us on Mastadon theoverheadwire@sfba.social Support the show on Patreon...

This week we're joined by Chris Fabian of Resource X to talk about his work on priority based budgeting. We discuss how cities create budgets that reflect their policy goals and what it takes to find resources for big ideas. 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 Boo...

This week on the Mondays show we're Han Solo! But that doesn't stop us from sharing a lot of news!  The Prime Minister of England has pulled the plug on high speed rail, what the pandemic drop in traffic means for access, designing for autism and much much more! News Items Designing for autism - Metropolis Magazine Pandemic increases in access - University of Minnesota Starter cars disappearing -...

This week we're joined by Abby Thorne-Lyman, Former Director of Real Estate at BART, to talk about BART's development projects and priorities, and the importance of real estate to BART's future.   Today's podcast was produced in partnership with Mpact. Learn more about the work they do and annual conference at http://mpactmobility.org OOO Follow us on twitter @theoverheadwire Follow us on Mastadon...

This week we're joined by Kari Watkins   and Dave Ederer to talk about their paper The Safe Systems Pyramid: A New Framework for Traffic Safety .   We talk about the connections between transportation and public health and how it allows us to think differently about transportation safety. Find David's full dissertation on Georgia Tech's website . OOO Follow us on twitter @theoverheadwire Follow us...

This week on the show we catch up on some of the news from the last month and go over what's coming up on the Talking Headways podcast. We talk about post-pandemic transportation, sea level rise impacts on shipping and drinking water, and the world's smallest skyscraper.  Show Note Links Below SF NIMBYs watch out - SF Chronicle Bike tunnel - Bloomberg CityLab Colorado rail service - Governing Worl...

This week we're joined by Bob Searns to talk about his book Beyond Greenways: The Next Step for City Trails and Walking Routes .   We talk about grand ideas for walking trails that circle whole regions and more local routes that make up a new mode of green infrastructure in cities. OOO Follow us on twitter @theoverheadwire Follow us on Mastadon theoverheadwire@sfba.social Support the show on Patre...

This week we're joined by Phoenix community builder Tim Sprague. We chat about supporting local culture through development projects and the importance of sustainable development and transportation. Today's podcast was produced in partnership with Mpact. To learn more about the annual conference, visit http://mpactmobility.org OOO Follow us on twitter @theoverheadwire Follow us on Mastadon theover...

This week on Mondays at The Overhead Wire we're joined by Carter Lavin to talk about the city dreams of tech moguls, government capacity, public housing that doesn't want to be called that, designing delivery trucks and much much more! Show notes: Silicon valley elites want a new city - Fortune via Bloomberg Importance of state capacity - The American Prospect Rise of Ecovillages - Noema Magazine...

This week we're joined by Zack Subin of the Terner Center for Housing Innovation and Ben Holland of the Rocky Mountain Institute. Ben and Zack join us to talk about their report Urban Land Use Reform on the importance of land use in reducing travel and emissions. Research Notes: Review of recent state land use legislation from Mercatus , including highlighting the WA package, and earlier this year...

This week we're sharing a panel discussion on how California High Speed Rail could be sped up. Hosted by Rodger Rudick of Streetsblog SF, Climate Advocate Carter Lavin, Eric Eidlin, Station Planning Manager for the City of San Jose, and Boris Lipkin of the California High Speed Rail Authority discuss what it would take to get the project done faster and all the potential benefits. OOO Follow us on...

This week on Mondays we're joined by Kevin DeGood of The Center for American Progress to talk about a study by NCDOT and NC State on Connected Autonomous Vehicles at Intersections.  This leads into a discussion about policy related to autonomous vehicles and saturation. It's not our usual Mondays news format but it's a shorter show and gets right to the point! OOO Follow us on twitter @theoverhead...

This week we're joined by Dr. Robert Blaine of the National League of Cities. We talk about their work helping smaller cities apply for federal infrastructure grants through a bootcamp program and chat about local grant writing capacity and what success looks like. OOO Follow us on twitter @theoverheadwire Follow us on Mastadon theoverheadwire@sfba.social Support the show on Patreon http://patreon...

This week we're joined by Yvonne Yeung to talk about ULI's recent report, Building 15 Minute Communities: a Leadership Guide . We chat about how the guide can help create good development that reduces the need to drive, and supports our climate emissions reduction goals. Also make sure to sign up for the Webinar on September 13th . OOO Also for Stitcher users that want to switch to another podcatc...

This week Ryan Wozniak joins the podcast to talk about Phoenix transportation policy, why people are moving to the sunbelt, truth in car advertising, Philly's plans for its own high line and much more! News Items LA giving out ADU plans - Dwell Magazine More Californians living in cars - The Atlantic Truth in car ads - Policy Options Politiques Moving to the sunbelt - The Atlantic Philly's high li...

This week we're listening in to PART 2 of a one to one conversation between David Longoria of LISC in Phoenix and Ryan Winkle of RAIL CDC. They discuss the community work they are doing in Mesa along the light rail line and how they respond to unforeseen outcomes. This episode was produced in partnership with Mpact. Find out more about the annual conference at http://mpactmobility.org OOO Also for...

This week we're listening in to PART 1 of a one to one conversation between David Longoria of LISC in Phoenix and Ryan Winkle of RAIL CDC. They discuss the community work they are doing in Mesa along the light rail line and the impact their work has on local businesses. This episode was produced in partnership with Mpact. Find out more about the annual conference at http://mpactmobility.org OOO Al...

This week on Mondays we're joined by Chrissy Mancini Nichols to talk about a whole host of transportation topics including Lyft's potential sale of its bike share business, how housing affects dating, congestion pricing politics and more! Below are links to the articles we talked about on the show. Lyft wants out of bike share - Motherboard A Jane Austen housing auction - Guardian New Jersey sues...

This week we're joined once more by Susan Crawford, author and Harvard Law Professor to talk about her new book, Charleston: Race, Water, and the Coming Storm . Susan chats with us about sea level rise, city solutions, and opportunities to rethink our responses. OOO Also for Stitcher users that want to switch to another podcatcher and need the RSS feed, here's our url: https://feeds.libsyn.com/493...

This week on Mondays at The Overhead Wire we delve into sameness around the world, climate change extremes, and Amsterdam's red light district.  Main Links City sameness - Dezeen Paris gets smart on heat - Yale e360 Hurricane Ian wiped out middle class - Politico Sewers can't handle rain - Scientific American Biased livability rankings - The Conversation Amsterdam's red light controversy - Time Bo...

This week we're chatting with David Wasserman of Alta Planning and Mike Flaxman of Heavy. AI about generative artificial intelligence.   We chat about what generative AI is and how it is trained, and some of the ways it could be used or misused in a planning and transportation context. Show Notes Augmented: Planners in an Era of Generative AI - APA Open Letter on Generative AI & Ethical Planning -...

This week we're joined by Paula DiPerna to talk about her book Pricing the Priceless: The Financial Transformation to Value the Planet, Solve the Climate Crisis, and Protect Our Most Precious Assets. We chat about how nature is working for us for free and how we should value those services as well as the financial mechanisms we could use to save the planet. She also shares how she got the Vatican...