On this fourth of July special replay of Talking Headways we’re going back to Episode 382 with Alix Gould-Werth and Alex Murphy discussing their work on transportation insecurity. Anna Zivarts mentioned this work in her book and recently on t

Episode 489: Post-Peaky Transit

11 days ago 51m 48s

This week on Talking Headways we’re chatting with Tracy Hadden Loh of the Brookings Institute about impacts of the pandemic on downtowns, activity centers, and transit usage. We chat about creating activity center cluster maps and a recent repo

Episode 154: Mondays at The Overhead Wire - Dead University Line

13 days ago 47m 12s

We're Han Solo this week on Mondays at The Overhead Wire but that doesn't stop us from covering a lot of ground from the last several weeks. We chat about how climate change could impact infrastructure building, the death of Houston's Universit

Episode 488: When Driving is Not An Option

18 days ago 33m 20s

This week on Talking Headways I’m joined by SPUR’s Laura Tolkoff to interview Anna Zivarts about her new book: When Driving Is Not an Option: Steering Away from Car Dependency. We chat about non-drivers, car seats, and the week without drivin

Episode 487: Killed by a Traffic Engineer

25 days ago 52m 14s

This week we’re joined by Wes Marshall, Civil Engineering Professor at the University of Colorado at Denver to talk about his book Killed by a Traffic Engineer: Shattering the Delusion that Science Underlies our Transportation System. We chat

Episode 153: Mondays at The Overhead Wire - (De)congestion Pricing with Ben Kabak

27 days ago 51m 30s

This week on Mondays at The Overhead Wire we go into depth on the past week in New York City and Governor Kathy Hochul's attempt to end a (de)congestion pricing program that was going to begin on June 30th. We're joined by Ben Kabak of Second A

Episode 486: The Computable City

Jun 6th, 2024 55m 28s

This week on Talking Headways we’re joined by Michael Batty, Professor of Planning at the University College London. We chat about his book The Computable City: Histories, Technologies, Stories, Predictions which includes histories of computin

Episode 485: Amtrak vs Brightline in Ohio

May 29th, 2024 37m 47s

This week we’re joined by Cleveland journalist Ken Prendergast to talk about intercity passenger rail in greater Ohio. We chat about the competing interests of Brightline and Amtrak and the history of passenger rail planning in the region. Ch

Mondays Flashback: Verkehrsverbund with Ralph Buehler

May 28th, 2024 46m 30s

We’re Han Solo today but no fear we’re flashing back to Episode 211 of the Talking Headways podcast where we chatted with Ralph Buehler about the topic of the German transport concept of Verkehrsverbund. With a lot of talk of regional transpo

Episode 484: Rethinking Denver Along the South Platte River

May 23rd, 2024 57m 28s

This week on Talking Headways we’re joined by Erin Clark, Chief Real Estate Investment Officer of the Denver Housing Authority. We chat about the redevelopment of Sun Valley, a public housing project built in the 1950s that is being reinvigorat

Episode 483: An Update to Human Transit

May 16th, 2024 58m 42s

This week we’re joined once again by Jarrett Walker to talk about the release of the revised edition of his influential book Human Transit. We chat about Ursula Le Guin, expanding access to opportunity, how to think about transit riders, the

Episode 152: Mondays at The Overhead Wire - Ancient Ways of Water Infrastructure

May 14th, 2024 40m 4s

This week we're Han Solo but have a lot of news to cover including items on skateboarding, new types of segregation, third places, and some ancient ways to cool cities and streets. Check out the show notes below for more information. Notes: S

Episode 482: Highway Fighting in Texas

May 9th, 2024 44m 11s

This week we’re joined by Megan Kimble to talk about her book City Limits: Infrastructure, Inequality, and the Future of America's Highways. We chat about the folks fighting back against highways, the history behind building big roads, and wha

Episode 481: Money is a Lot of Different Things

May 2nd, 2024 37m 1s

This week were sharing part 2 of our discussion with Jim Kumon. We chat about the challenges of development, how to crowdfund a building, coming to the end of an 80 year economic cycle, how the built environment is an outcome of how we structur

Episode 151: Mondays at The Overhead Wire - It's Been a Minute

Apr 30th, 2024 1h 8m

This week on Mondays at The Overhead Wire we're joined by Tracy McMillan to talk about aging in place, Nashville's big transit plan, potential Alzheimer's causes in car exhaust, Milan's famous weeks, and the Colorado legislature's search for mo

Episode 480: Details of Development Reform in Minnesota Part 1

Apr 25th, 2024 47m 51s

This week we’re joined by Jim Kumon, Principal at Electric Housing, to discuss his work as a developer and urban policy educator in the Twin Cities. We chat about his sustainable development project, what St. Paul learned from Minneapolis 2040

Episode 479: Charging Up Transportation

Apr 18th, 2024 46m 47s

This week we’re joined by Gabe Klein, Executive Director of the Joint Office of Energy and Transportation. We chat about the Joint Office’s white paper focused on best practices and solutions for electric vehicle charging entitled: Community Ch

Episode 150: Mondays at The Overhead Wire - Housekeeping After Drought

Apr 16th, 2024 41m 9s

Happy Mondays! This week on Mondays at The Overhead Wire we're Han Solo again but we have a lot to catch up on. We're going over some of the news we didn't get to when we were away in China for a month. We cover LA's spongy infrastructure, a

Episode 478: Women’s Transportation Seminar

Apr 11th, 2024 41m 26s

This week we’re joined by Sara Stickler, President and CEO of WTS International. We discuss how WTS highlights women’s expertise in transportation and how they create opportunities from mentorship to leadership and education. We also chat about

Episode 477: Culture Change in Cleveland

Apr 4th, 2024 52m 51s

This week we’re featuring a one to one conversation between Billy Terry, Executive Director of the National Transit Institute at Rutgers University, and India Birdsong Terry, General Manager and CEO of the Greater Cleveland Regional Transit Au

Episode 149: Mondays at The Overhead Wire - Dispatch from China

Apr 2nd, 2024 45m 40s

This week on Mondays at The Overhead Wire Jeff talks about his month long trip to China. Subways, multi-use paths, urbanism and more! We chat about Chinese mall culture, great food, and a really cool station design in Shenzhen. To see some pict

Episode 476: Saving California Transit from the Fiscal Cliff

Mar 28th, 2024 48m 28s

This week we’re sharing a San Francisco Planning and Urban Research (SPUR) forum on how a statewide coalition of transit advocates were able to organize a funding bridge to avert a fiscal cliff for transit operators in the state. The discussion

Episode 475: Lessons from Quickbuild Street Projects

Mar 21st, 2024 37m 48s

This week we’re joined by Heidi Simon, Director of Thriving Communities at Smart Growth America. Heidi talks about lessons learned from Complete Streets Leadership Academies as state and local officials and advocates work to create safer stree

Episode 474: Thinking Differently About Vehicle Design

Mar 14th, 2024 1h 3m

This week we’re joined by vehicle designer Dan Sturges to talk about his book Near to Far: A Design for a new and Equitable Transportation System. We talk about new ways of thinking about vehicle design, mobility for low density areas, as well

Episode 473: Public Sentiment and Public Transit

Mar 7th, 2024 45m 2s

This week we’re featuring a 1 to 1 conversation between Adelee Le Grand of Intellectual Concepts and Scott Wilkinson of AlphaVu. They chat about how transit agencies can get a better handle on how riders and non-riders alike feel about their se