Talking Headways: A Streetsblog Podcast

This week we chat with Kendra Freeman of the Chicago Metropolitan Planning Council, an independent non-profit focused on shaping the Chicago region. Kendra talks about her work with Elevated Chicago and how they are trying to bring equitable TOD to rail and bus corridors around the region as well as the original impact of the city's TOD ordinance. She also chats about next steps in pushing the city to consider equity in its update of the ordinance and how they can support entrepreneurs with strategic investments.  

This week we're joined by Maurice Jones, President and CEO of LISC (Local Initiatives Support Corporation). Maurice talks about working with communities and existing businesses to develop talent in the workforce, breaking down barriers to entry in certain professions such as property development, and the history of policies and practices that intentionally excluded certain populations from opportunity.  

Chrissy Mancini Nichols joins the show again and we chat a lot about SB50! We also talk about infrastructure and bike lanes. News SB 50 Tabled until January - Los Angeles Times SB50 Urban Footprint Analysis - UF Kim-Mai Cutler tweet thread - KMC Twitter Infrastructure Week PIRG releases report - Frontier Group Repair Priorities - T4America Odds and Ends CA HSR Funding Dropped by FRA- Reuters IM Pei passes away - NPR Facial recognition banned in SF - Vox Thanks to our Patreon supporters! Patreon.com/theoverheadwire Story of the Week Bike lanes need barriers not just paint - Curbed Puppies and Butterflies Tram Bowling - Wired Magazine  

This week we're joined by Stephen Smyth, Co-Founder and CEO of Coord. He talks about the need for digital infrastructure to be a new layer on top of physical infrastructure in order to inventory our existing assets including curb space. We chat about the tools Coord has created to measure and document curbs, how they work, and how this seemingly innocuous space will change over time with regulation. We also have a little futurist discussion about street space and learn how regulations might change when fleets are operating on the street rather than mostly individual vehicles.    “We talk about mobility as a service, we think of the service as a fleet. Going forward if we look at this as a regulation technology issue, cities and public agencies will be interacting with businesses for a given individuals trip or delivery versus the individual themselves. I think that’s an important shift, and actually it may make it easier to change regulations because there is a layer in between the interaction between the city agency and individual which can create resistance to change potentially. I think that if more trips are delivered by businesses instead of individuals in private cars we can innovate more quickly.”    

This week we're joined by Tracy McMillan and we talk about alll kinds of stuff! Surveillance and city fortifications and aging in place! The show discussion links are below... News I-405 traffic gets worse after widening - Curbed LA Campo dedicates money for I-35 expansion - Austin Monitor Facial recognition data leak - TechCrunch Denver homeless camping initiative - Pew Trusts Visit our sponsor Moovel.com Odds and Ends Uber IPO - NY Magazine Germany testing an e-highway - DW Story of the Week Da Vinci's City - The Conversation Future of Housing nothing like today - Fast Company Puppies and Butterflies WePark in parking spaces - Curbed SF E-Bikes could transform how we age - Fast Company

This week we chat with Colin Parent, Executive Director of Circulate San Diego, an advocacy organization that promotes public and active transportation in tandem with sustainable growth. Colin is also a city council member for the City of La Mesa. As Colin notes, much of the renewed interest and support for transit and transit-oriented development is being driven by one thing: the housing crisis. We learn how the mayor of San Diego is pushing more housing and less parking, and the long term benefits of advocacy.

This week on the show we're joined by Tracy McMillan! The show notes are below... The News What to make of White House infrastructure meeting - Brookings Quadratic voting - Bloomberg LA pushes for a Green New Deal - Los Angeles Times A new way to calculate affordability - USC Odds and Ends Houston's data driven housing problem - Houston Chronicle 3 people make most of the complaints - Daily Bruin San Diego switches transport plans - Planetizen Story of the Week The importance of shade - Places Journal A geocode is not an address - Wired Puppies and Butterflies Medieval city generator - My Modern Met Cycling without age

This week we're at the Shared Mobility Summit from earlier this year in Chicago. Laura Bliss of CityLab moderates a panel of agency leaders including Stephanie Pollack, CEO of MassDOT, Randy Clarke, President and CEO of Capital Metro in Austin, and Sadhu Johnston, City Manager from Vancouver British Columbia. The panel talks about whether it's too late to address climate change through transportation, how the introduction of ride hailing will work with local regulations in Vancouver, how Austin has been watching the evolution of shared mobility from TNCs to scooters, how buses matter for the future of transportation and much much more. If you'd like to skip to the conversation portion past the presentations, fast forward to 41 minutes.    

This week we’re joined by Brian Ebersol and Eileen Everhart of Geisinger Health System in Pennsylvania. They talk about how health care is about more than just patient care at hospitals and how transportation and wellbeing figures into planning for treating the whole person.

This week we're joined by Swedish urbanist Alexander Stahle. He talks about how cities in Europe have a lot of the same problems we do in the United States and what some places are doing to make streets safer and more active. He also chats about how his company Spacescape uses data to think about the value of urban form and where new metro lines should go. Alexander also talks about a new street design guide he's helping to create for Sweden.