In today's episode of The Next Mile Podcast, Pouya Dianat is joined by Darin Givens, the cofounder of the urbanism advocacy group thread atl, based in Atlanta. He is also the ATL urbanist, and has been writing about urbanism and transportation for many years.

Key Points from this Episode:

• The difference between suburban and urban environments, and how they impact our daily lives
• The design of our roads and public spaces, and how it affects our behavior
• The potential for Atlanta to learn from other cities when it comes to transportation and urban design

Tweetables:

“The great thing is that answers are out there, and we know what makes better places in terms of transportation, engineering and road design. We know what makes safer places and less hostile places for walking. The hurdle is getting people on board with making those design changes.” – Darin Givens

“Instead of expanding capacity on Interstate highways, we could take the capacity that we have right now and dedicate some of it to bus rapid transit lanes and really dedicated purely to bus rapid transit lanes, so that those become just as speedy to use almost as as a rail line, yet less expensive to operate.” – Darin Givens

Links Mentioned in Today’s Episode:

ThreadATL

ThreadATL on Twitter

Darin Givens on Linkedin

Darin Givens on Twitter

Darin Givens on Instagram

Darin Givens on YouTube

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