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Talking Headways: A Streetsblog Podcast
The Overhead Wire
300 episodes
A weekly podcast about the intersection between sustainable transportation, urban planning, and economic development. Hosted by Jeff Wood of The Overhead Wire.
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Monday's Flashback: More Than Just a Box
We're going back in time to Episode 144 to chat with Matthew Heins about his book The Globalization of American Infrastructure: The Shipping Container and Freight Transportation. We've done a lot of fun shows and I had…
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Episode 505: Urgency and Vision Zero
This week we're joined by Leah Shahum, Executive Director of the Vision Zero Network. We chat about why it's so hard to make change, the implicit biases around designing for automobiles and the World Day of Remembrance…
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Episode 504: Simpler Payment Systems for Agencies and Riders
This week we're joined by Gillian Gillett of CalITP and Dan Baker, of the Connecticut Department of Transportation to discuss how agencies can create simpler payment and travel experiences for transit riders. We chat…
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Episode 160: Mondays at The Overhead Wire - The Long and Winding Road
This week on Mondays Wes Marshall is back! We chat about his trip to Bogota Columbia, the connections between biological structure and the built environment, and of course we discuss the news from last week including…
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Episode 503: The Architecture of Urbanity
This week on Talking Headways, we're joined by architect Vishaan Chakrabarti to talk about his book The Architecture of Urbanity: Designing for Nature, Culture, and Joy. We discuss the goldilocks density, defining…
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Mondays Flashback: Access as a Metric
We're flashing back to Talking Headways episode 246 from five years ago and chat with Andrew Owen of the Accessibility Observatory about access as a metric! Wes Marshall will be back next week but in the meantime we've…
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Episode 502: Transit Themed Rock Music
This week we're joined by Cameron Mays, lead singer of the Transit Themed band The Frans. We chat about transit in Cleveland, the song writing process for transit music, and the parking lot in Erie Pennsylvania that…
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Episode 501: How MPOs Can Help Design Safe Streets
This week we're joined by Cassidy Boulan and Thom Stead of the Delaware Valley Regional Planning Commission (DVRPC). We chat about their work in Philadelphia, Trenton, and greater New Jersey related to complete streets…
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Episode 159: Mondays at The Overhead Wire - It's All Connected with Wes Marshall
This week on Mondays we're joined by Professor Wes Marshall of the University of Colorado Denver to go through this week's news. We talk 15 Minute Cities, increasing car loans, social housing, and whether a new train…
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Episode 500: LA and Beyond with Ken Napzok and Joseph Scrimshaw
This week on the Talking Headways podcast we're hitting 500 episodes! And to celebrate we have a bit of a look back in time with Tanya Snyder of the origins of the show and then we chat with Ken Napzok and Joseph…
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Episode 499: Expanding Amtrak Across America
This week we're joined by Mike Christensen, Executive Director of the Utah Rail Passengers Association and a tireless advocate for intercity passenger rail. Mike chats with us about Amtrak's expansion plans, the impact…
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Episode 158: Mondays at The Overhead Wire - I Love Fall with Sam Sklar
This week on Mondays at The Overhead Wire we're joined by Sam Sklar to talk about a lot of interseting topics from Charlotte and Riyadh transit expansions to climate policies that work and why kids aren't taking the…
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Episode 498: Transit Leadership for the Future
This week on Talking Headways we're joined by podcaster and transit expert Paul Comfort and former California State Transportation Agency Secretary David Kim to talk about their ensemble book The New Future of Public…
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Mondays Flashback: Asphalt - A History
Since it's Labor Day we've got a flashback Talking Headways here at Mondays at The Overhead Wire! Next week we'll be back with a Mondays show with a special guest that's not Han Solo so stay tuned! But this week we're…
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Episode 497: The Real Work of Safer Streets
This week on Talking Headways we chat with transportation and planning expert Warren Logan, who is running for Oakland City Council in District 3. Warren talks about the differences in how people perceive government…
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Episode 496: Portland's Micromobility Experience
This week on the Talking Headways podcast we're joined by Dylan Rivera and Jacob Sherman of the Portland Bureau of Transportation to discuss micromobility. We chat about the importance of cities regulating access to…
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Episode 157: Mondays at The Overhead Wire - First Nations Urbanism
This week we're Han Solo, but we're chatting about how the First Nations in Vancouver are becoming to largest property developer in California, the idea of urban delivery hubs and switching cargo planning, how cities…
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Episode 495: Reducing Emissions on Highway Projects
This week we're joined by Move Minnesota director Sam Rockwell to talk about climate bills Minnesota legislators have passed that could reduce highway and road building emissions in the state. We chat about setting…
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Episode 494: Bandaids on a Lack of Density
This week on the Talking Headways podcast swe're joined by Nico Larco, Director of the Urbanism Next Center at the University of Oregon. We chat about his new book with Kaarin Knudson, The Sustainable Urban Design…
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Mondays Flashback: The Digital City with Germaine Halegoua
This week we're jumping back in time to visit Talking Headways episode 285 featuring Professor Germaine Halegoua discussing her book The Digital City: Media and the Social Production of Place. It's one of my favorite…
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Episode 493: Transit to the Great Outdoors
This week on Talking Headways we have a conversation moderated by Corrie Parrish of Kittelson Associates with Andrea Breault of Cascades East Transit and Amy Schlappi of Columbia Area Transit discussing Transit service…
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Episode 492: Have Cities Run Out of Land?
This week we're joined by Chris Redfearn of USC and Anthony Orlando of Cal Poly Pomona to discuss their paper - Houston, you have a problem: How large cities accommodate more housing. We talk about why "pro-business"…
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Episode 156: Mondays at The Overhead Wire - Universal Basic Livability
This week on Mondays Chrissy Mancini-Nichols is back! We talk about universal basic mobility, cool corridors, Japan's idea for a massive underground freight conveyor belt and freight's first mile last mile problem,…
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Episode 491: IrrePLACEable
This week on the Talking Headways podcast we're joined by Kevin Kelley, founding partner and principal at Shook Kelley. We talk about his book Irreplaceable: How to Create Extraordinary Places that Bring People…
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Episode 490: Electrify the Rails
This week on Talking Headways we're joined by Adriana Rizzo of Californians for Electric Rail. We chat about freight and warehousing growth in California's Inland Empire, the benefits of train electrification and a new…
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Episode 155: Mondays at The Overhead Wire - Four Day Work Week
This week on the Mondays show, we're Han Solo but have a lot of interesting items about shorter work weeks, children's brains and the impact of traffic noise, overbuilt retail, and highway expansion and climate change.…
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Replay: Measuring Transportation Insecurity
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…
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Episode 489: Post-Peaky Transit
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…
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Episode 154: Mondays at The Overhead Wire - Dead University Line
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…
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Episode 488: When Driving is Not An Option
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…
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Episode 487: Killed by a Traffic Engineer
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…
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Episode 153: Mondays at The Overhead Wire - (De)congestion Pricing with Ben Kabak
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…
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Episode 486: The Computable City
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…
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Episode 485: Amtrak vs Brightline in Ohio
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…
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Mondays Flashback: Verkehrsverbund with Ralph Buehler
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…
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Episode 484: Rethinking Denver Along the South Platte River
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…
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Episode 483: An Update to Human Transit
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…
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Episode 152: Mondays at The Overhead Wire - Ancient Ways of Water Infrastructure
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…
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Episode 482: Highway Fighting in Texas
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…
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Episode 481: Money is a Lot of Different Things
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…
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Episode 151: Mondays at The Overhead Wire - It's Been a Minute
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…
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Episode 480: Details of Development Reform in Minnesota Part 1
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…
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Episode 479: Charging Up Transportation
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…
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Episode 150: Mondays at The Overhead Wire - Housekeeping After Drought
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…
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Episode 478: Women's Transportation Seminar
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…
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Episode 477: Culture Change in Cleveland
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…
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Episode 149: Mondays at The Overhead Wire - Dispatch from China
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…
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Episode 476: Saving California Transit from the Fiscal Cliff
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…
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Episode 475: Lessons from Quickbuild Street Projects
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…
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Episode 474: Thinking Differently About Vehicle Design
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…
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