Talking Headways: A Streetsblog Podcast

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, Substack ... @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 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 Patreon! Follow us on Bluesky, Threads, Instagram, YouTube, Flickr, Substack ... @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 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 streets could and should be.  +++ 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 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'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 Transit essential to the justice system - City and State PA Wildlife evolution - LA Times Bonus Items Building credit - Brooklyn Reader Cities not built for mothers - Architectural Digest Dutch kids happier - CNN Texas outlaws dealer paper plates - Jalopnik Chinatown rent strike works - LA Public Press Cutting shipping emissions - Anthropocene Magazine Bike commuter benefits gone - Politico Pro Tax deduction on car interest - Kiplinger Hawaii launches road user charges - Citti Magazine Fig trees turn CO2 to stone - Discover Magazine Teens taking Waymos now - Wired Magazine +++ 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 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 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, Substack ... @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 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, Threads, Instagram, YouTube, Flickr, Substack ... @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 again, but we discuss lead pollution and serial killers, PM 1 micro-pollution,  and how ICE raids are reducing transit ridership in Los Angeles. Below is a full linked article list:  Main Items ICE raids lead to low LA ridership - LA Times Tinier particles data finally collected - Washington University St. Louis Reversible architecture - ArchDaily TTC congestion management - blogTO Bonus Items KC wants to pay for block parties - Kansas City Star Disasters impact baby brains - Gizmodo Full of lead - The Overhead Wire Oakland block tries to quit fossil fuels - KQED End of Energy Star? - Smart Cities Dive China's high speed rail debate - Asia Times Arizona to vote on VMT charges - Ballotpedia How government can finance low cost homes - Nonprofit Quarterly Florida restricts bus lanes to ridership quotas - Tampa Bay Times New motor could change e-bikes - Electrek Toronto bike lane gets more traffic - Carbon Upfront! Oregon housing bonds surpassed expectations - Governing Puppies and Butterflies: Michelin Restaurants on LA Transit Bike share triathlon +++ 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 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 Madeline Brozen of the UCLA Lewis Center for Regional Policy Studies. We talk about universal basic mobility and research her team has done on the LA Mobility Wallet Pilot Program.   +++ 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 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 Ilana Preuss of Recast City to talk about small scale manufacturing in cities. We discuss the commercial side of economic development, the types of jobs we are creating, and how to build community wealth in left behind places. We also talk about hot planning topics such as jobs housing balance, economic multipliers, and spreading the retail peanut butter too thin. Get Illana's book Recast City. +++ 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 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're Han Solo but there's still a lot of news to share! We talk about research that shows how active transportation can reduce emissions even more than before, the ever growing fueling station, the "dark roof" lobby, and what is a third place really? Below are the show notes with the items we discussed.  Show Notes Gas stations growing - New York Times Emissions reductions from active transport - Transportation Research Part D Traffic academy expands - News from the States Dark roof lobby - The Guardian What is a third place? - Eater Supreme court permitting revolution - Heatmap Commuter rail ridership is urban - Pedestrian Observations Santa Monica airport over people - Fast Company Bonus Items LA gentrification lowers transit ridership - CalMatters Ending race, gender DBE contracting by USDOT - Reuters Chinese trucks switch to electric - Transport Topics Housing costs delay medical treatment - Wisconsin Public Radio Poll says residents want Metromover - Miami Herald Bologna's mobility strategy - Eurocities Miami to monitor home temps - WLRN Using mushrooms as building materials - Ideastream Public Radio Limiting car dimensions - Transport and Environment  +++ 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 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