Talking Headways: A Streetsblog Podcast

This week we’re joined by James Rojas of Place It! to talk about art in planning and Latino Urbanism.

Brian McMahon and GB Arrington talk about TCRP Report 182, Linking Transit Agencies and Land Use Decision Making.

This week we’re joined by Christy Kwan, Interim Executive Director of the Alliance for Biking and Walking to talk about their bi-annual national Benchmarking Report. We talk about the awesome information in the report and why local activists might use it to advocate for better communities.

This week we’re joined by Muriel Xochimitl, Jon Larsen, and Callie New of the Wasatch Front Regional Council MPO in Utah to talk about their new interactive story map tool measuring urban street design that took the walkability research of Reid Ewing and Otto Clement at the University of Utah and turned it into a data rich map the team hopes will become a standard measure for all streets.

Jake Mecklenborg, the author of Cincinnati's Incomplete Subway joins us to talk about the history of the tunnels under the city that have been there now for 100 years.

Akshay Mani joins us to talk about transportation issues in India.

Ed Parillon comes on the show to talk about living in Trinidad, dive bars, housing, raising kids in cities, and transit dates.

Jason Jordan joins the podcast to talk about transportation ballot measures and new tactics from the opposition.

This week we’re joined by Kristen Jeffers, the Communcations and Membership Manager for Bike Walk KC and the Author of The Black Urbanist. Join us for a fun conversation about regional department stores, hair salons, and more!

Yonah Freemark joins us to talk about his new mapping tool Transit Explorer and the big transit projects that are opening or under construction in the next year.