Talking Headways: A Streetsblog Podcast

This week we’re joined by Johanna Hoffman to talk about her book Speculative Futures: Design Approaches to Navigate Change, Foster Resilience, and Co-Create the Cities We Need. We chat about thinking longer term about planning problems, people’s emotional reactions to the future, and ways to imagine a different way of interacting in cities. 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 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 Jacob Graham, a Program Manager for MoGo Bike Share in Detroit. Jacob chats with us about how the system works in Detroit, how bike share riders and bus riders coincide, the benefits of E-Bikes, and coordination with other organizations. This podcast was produced in partnership with MPact (fmrly Railvolution) 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 Bookshop.org Affiliate site!  And get our Cars are Cholesterol shirt at Tee-Public! And everything else at http://theoverheadwire.com

This week for the holidays we're going back in time to listen to one of the most popular episodes of 2022! In Talking Headways 376, Kevin Krizek, Professor at the University of Colorado Boulder and David King, Assistant Professor at Arizona State University talk about their book, Advanced Introduction to Urban Transport Planning. We chat about access, justice, and why this book is perfect for changing the conversation around transportation. 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 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 a lot to share from ideas we have for next year's podcasts as well as a lot of really interesting news items you probably won't hear about anywhere else. Check out the show notes below for more and have a great finish to 2022!  Show Notes Buses shouldn't be free - The Atlantic 7 ways we perceive architecture - The Conversation Rush to EVs an expensive mistake - CBC Owner occupancy requirements - Smart Cities Dive $100B lesson how not to do transit - Motherboard AirBnB running riot in small towns - WIred Bonus Content EU approves French flight bans - Politico EU Health care and housing crisis - KALW Hertz to pay for locking people up - New York Times Berlin's bike car parking duel - CityLab Congress new city reporting requirements - Route Fifty EPA finds no progress on fuel economy - ACEEE Zero emissions buses could make transit popular - Traffic Technology Today Fairfax county equitable transport metrics - Reston Now   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 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 Sarah Kaufman of the NYU Rudin Center for Transportation. Sarah joined us in Miami at the RailVolution conference to talk about autonomous vehicle policy, acceptable safety levels, what happens to the NYC Taxis and the lessons from Superstorm Sandy for transportation infrastructure. OOO Follow us on twitter @theoverheadwire 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 Jarred Johnson, Executive Director of TransitMatters in Boston.  Jarred talks about making the case for the MBTA, the Orange Line shutdown, regional rail and electrification, overhead wires versus batteries, and fare policy. OOO Follow us on twitter @theoverheadwire 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 talking about the big stories of the last few weeks! Why LED lights suddenly turn purple, what walking does to our brains, and the strange city of Lusail in Qatar. News Items LED lights turning purple - Business Insider How walking helps us think - New Yorker The strange city of Lusail Qatar - Guardian The urban drug store decline - Slate European cities getting crowded - Wired Magazine Amsterdam circular economy - Fast Company South Korea zero food waste - Guardian Great Salt Lake collapse - Salt Lake Tribune Solarpunk - Public Books Will casual carpool come back? - Berkeleyside OOO Follow us on twitter @theoverheadwire 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!

This week we're joined once again by Stephanie Gidigbi Jenkins and Helen Chin to talk about the one year anniversary of the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act. They chat about what they liked, the issue with capacity for applying for and implementing grants, transformative justice, and what states are actually doing well. OOO Follow us on twitter @theoverheadwire 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!

This week we sit down with US Congressman Earl Blumenauer of Oregon’s 3rd District at the Rail~Volution conference in Miami. We chat about the one year anniversary of the infrastructure bill, where we’re at with vision zero, the coming Farm Bill discussion, and the important connections between housing, transportation, and health. OOO Follow us on twitter @theoverheadwire 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!

This week we're joined by The Greater Marin's David Edmondson!  We talk about the importance of Time, whether  freight railroad tracks should be publicly owned and managed, and the boom in ridership on Van Ness.  We also talk a bit of Andor and the hill slums of Sierra Leone Show Links: Van Ness BRT ridership bump - San Francisco Chronicle Publicly owned railroad infrastructure - Freight Waves The importance of "Time" - Eurocities 100 years of autocentricity - Forbes Shenzhen's electric buses - Smart Cities World OOO Follow us on twitter @theoverheadwire 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!