Talking Headways: A Streetsblog Podcast

This week we’re joined by Mike Salisbury of Denver’s Office of Climate Action, Sustainability & Resiliency to talk about the city’s E-bike rebate program. We talk about funding, e-bikes vs electric cars, and how the rebates are distributed. 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 have a lot to talk about! Donut shop murals spark free speech fights, we think more about the concept of time, and work from home's effects on the public sector. Of course there's much more and we hope you join us as we share the news. Below are links to all the news we chat about on the show this week. News Items Donuts and free speech - AP Time spent, wasted - The New Republic Services curtailed as workers are at home - Pro Public Remote work and costs of government - Governing Bike share when Lyft is gone - Curbed Ithaca electric city - Rolling Stone Paris kicked out cars - Slate Car Creditocracy - Public Books Buses alleviate unemployment, poverty - Abstract | Full Focus on transit service - Vox Bonus Items Mitt Romney's bike opinions - Bicycling Magazine Wild toileting - Guardian SUVs could collapse garages - The Drive Rich people stealing water - Guardian Barcelona blocks boost health - Politico EU Japan's 10m empty houses - New York Times Longest bike tunnel

This week we’re joined by Hamilton Steimer of the World Resources Institute to talk about their report: Zero-emission Delivery Zones: A New Way to Cut Traffic, Air Pollution and Greenhouse Gases. We chat about electrification of fleets, what cities have the best programs for ZEDZ, and the current moment in urban delivery. 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 Trevor Latimer to talk about his book Small Isn’t Beautiful: The Case Against Localism. We chat about what localism is and how its geographically defined, as well as why “leave if you don’t like it” is disingenuous. 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 Andrew Jones, Program director for the Uptown and Downtown Oakland Community Benefits District. We chat about urban place management, how urban spaces are taken care of, and what it takes to keep them vibrant and engaging. Today's podcast was produced in partnership with Mpact 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 Yonah Freemark of the Urban Institute is BACK for the Annual Prediction Show.  This year we chat about our predictions from last year and next year of course, but also regional rail in France, interesting transportation projects happening around the world, and the high cost and management of big transit projects. 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 on the show we're Han Solo again but we have a lot of topics to cover! Do Americans have an apartment phobia, should bedrooms have windows, and what's the newest trends in mapping sidewalks? All these and more on the show this week! Show notes below: THE NEWS Apartment phobia - New York Magazine Intelligencer Can't afford to drive - Salon Windowless bedrooms - The Nation Empowering children with walking - The Conversation SEPTA kills King of Prussia rail - Philadelphia Inquirer Red states fight blue cities - FiveThirtyEight Mapping city sidewalks - MIT News Second life for car batteries - Reasons to be Cheerful BONUS ITEMS Design not cops - Rocky Mountain PBS A better MaaS - ITS International Inflation driven by housing - Marketplace Turkey earthquake - New York Times Housing prescribed by doctors - LA Times Transport an patient care - Talking Headways Jones Act causes traffic - The Atlantic Kansas City eviction fix - KCUR Catching fog in Lima Peru - National Geographic Learning fro

This week we’re joined by David Hensher, Director of the Institute of Transport and Logistics Studies at the University of Sydney. David chats about how to fix Mobility as a Service and proposes a new way to reduce travel and emissions called  Mobility as a Feature. 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 Oregon Metro Council President Lynn Peterson to talk about her book Roadways for People: Rethinking Transportation Planning and Engineering. We chat about better project scoping, capacity building, engineers going to actually walk and bike their project areas, and highway expansion 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 on the show we talk about a whole lot of different topics from bus stop requests, bus electrification, and health care streets.  Main Links Request stops - Next City Chicago electric buses - Associated Press We Buy Houses - The Philadelphia Citizen French cities ban billboards - Marketplace Utah DOT wants to build a gondola - Motherboard Homeowners Assoc war on environment - Wired 2,000 without water - Fast Company Bonus Items Housing voucher wait list - Arizona Republic The health street - ArchDaily Colorado funding change - Colorado Sun Air pollution paradox - USC Price Amazon pauses HQ2 - New York Times Global SUV Emissions - Guardian Surveillence through sports - The Atlantic Highway policy memo changes - Route Fifty France 100b euros for transit - Reuters Austin signs with USDOT - USDOT 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 s

This week on the podcast we are back at the Rail~Volution conference in Miami last fall.  We chat with Commissioner Eileen Higgins about the South Dade Busway, the importance of FTA ratings in getting projects built, and why she thinks it’s important as an elected official to ride transit. Also, the MPact transit + communities conference call for speakers is now open! 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 Dr. Jennifer Kent, Senior Research Fellow in Urbanism at the University of Sydney, to talk about her work on family transportation, the messiness of travel for parents, and loneliness and the built environment. 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 on Mondays we're again Han Solo, but don't let that stop you from listening in to all the news from the last couple of weeks! We chat about the 15 Minute City conspiracy, why the American Association of Railroads is against electrification, and Wales' climate action on roads. Below are the links from stories we talked about in the show notes! News Items Anti-electrification - Clean Technica Converting diesel to electric research - Nature Brussels traffic plan - The Mayor.eu Ghent traffic reduction - Sky News 15 minute cities conspiracy theory - New Statesman More conspiracy Guardian | CNN | Slate Flood zone properties overvalued - Grist Rethinking one hour deliveries - Streetsblog USA Welsh road climate review - Guardian Bonus Items Park city underground - KPCW Recycling building materials - ArchDaily | BBC Future Healthy cities more sidewalks - Bloomberg CityLab Convenience store crashes - Smart Cities Dive 20mph speed limits - Intelligent Transport Remote work costs Manhattan - Bl

This week we’re joined by Diane Jones Allen, Program Director for Landscape Architecture at the University of Texas at Arlington.  We chat about her work on food deserts and transportation access and the American Society of Landscape Architects Climate Action Plan. 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 going to the Rail~Volution (Now MPact) Conference in Miami. Daniel Gibson of Regional Vice President of Miami Dade Allegany Franciscan Ministries moderates a panel featuring LA Metro CEO Stephanie Wiggins, SEPTA CEO Leslie Richards, and Diana Stanley, CEO of homeless services provider The Lord’s Place to talk about homelessness and public transportation. They chat about the need for more federal agency coordination between transportation, health, and human services as well as how transit agencies are tackling the issues vulnerable populations face. 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 do talk about a LOT of news from around the country! We chat about Denver's successful e-bike pilot, biodiversity in cities, transit project costs report, Pittsburgh rethinks its budget based on climate change, and much much more! News Denver's e-bike success - Smart Cities Dives Biodiversity in cities - The New Republic Transit Costs Project Executive Summary - TCP Construction Productivity - New York Times Best new bike lanes - People for Bikes Pittsburgh redoes budget - Grist Gender equality in transport - Eltis Rent control for who? - Governing   Bonus Items Parking spaces too small - Motherboard Mexico city migration - Compact Magazine Small investments better than bigger ones - Guardian Apartment construction highest since 73 - Route Fifty Lifestyle rail - Forbes Consumption based emissions - Helsinki Times TfL developing land - Transport Xtra Roosevelt Boulevard subway gets cold shoulder - Inquirer   Puppies and Butterflies Edible cement - ArchDaily Monora

This week we’re joined by Greg Shill, Professor of Law at the University of Iowa, and Jonathan Levine, Professor of Urban and Regional Planning at the University of Michigan to talk about their paper, First Principals in Transportation Law and Policy. We talk about how to rethink transportation metrics towards accessibility, how the law has embedded mobility in transportation, and why we really travel. 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 Colin Parent, Executive Director of Circulate San Diego, to talk about their new report Fast Bus! How San Diego Can Make Progress by Speeding Up the Bus. We chat about some of the big things happening in San Diego and how the region can promote and support buses. 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

Chrissy Mancini Nichols joins the show this week to talk bike lanes, low traffic neighborhoods, gas stoves, and transportation engineering in the United States. It gets even more fun as Jeff's power goes out and we have to do the last 10 minutes over the phone! Join us for episode 125 of Mondays at The Overhead Wire. Show Notes Transportation engineering education - Next City Low Traffic neighborhood study - Guardian Bike lane battles - Wired Magazine Cooler pavements - Transfers Magazine Gas Stoves and childhood asthma - Washington Post Map of gas stove use - Statista 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 Dr. Dorina Pojani, Associate Professor of Urban Planning at the University of Queensland to talk about her book Planning for Sustainable Transport in Southeast Asia: Policy Transfer, Diffusion, and Mobility. We chat about how four different Southeast Asian cities are taking transportation ideas from other places and trying to deal with congestion and mobility. You can find the book from Springer here. 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