Talking Headways: A Streetsblog Podcast

This week we're joined by Chrissy Mancini Nichols to talk about some of the solutions cities are discussing to help businesses out during the Coronavirus. Odds and Ends AirBnB slump could return housing to cities - Guardian Nashville to raise property taxes - Bloomberg Santa Monica a harbinger of things to come? - LA Times Theme of the Week - Coronavirus Solutions Making us rethink public space - NBC Restaurants want to open, need space - NYC Streetsblog SF restaurants could take parking spots - SF Chronicle Put restaurants outside - Slate Philly should be 24 hour city - Inquirer New opportunities for downtown districts after pandemic - ASLA Dirt Follow us @theoverheadwire on twitter

This week on Talking Headways we're joined by CAHSR Northern California Regional Director Boris Lipkin. He talks with us about the California High Speed Rail project and the recently released draft environmental work. Boris also gives us his thoughts on megaregions, megaproject management lessons, and the agency's ability to use future funds available through stimulus programs.

This week on the podcast Tracy McMillan of Nelson Nygaard and Chrissy Mancini Nichols of Walker Consultants join the show to talk about density and the coronavirus. Though we end up talking more about institutions because density, while a big current topic, isn't in our minds why the virus is spreading. Odds and Ends 100,000 retail stores could be gone - USA Today Amsterdam to use the doughnut model - Fast Company Making pollinators citizens - The Guardian Main Theme Discussion - Density The Risks, know them - Dr. Erin Bromage Just wait on density talk - Dr. Lisa Schweitzer Density not the problem - CityLab A history of blaming place for problems - CityLab France says no to short haul flights - IRJ Density could be good for us after the pandemic - NY Times Puppies and Butterflies Jerry Stiller - "You Want a Piece of Me" You can't tickle yourself - Horizons

This week we're joined by journalist Conor Dougherty to talk about his book Golden Gates: Fighting for Housing in America. Conor talks about growing up in San Francisco, his literary inspirations for the book, and the arc of some of the real characters in his book.

This week we're chatting with Houston Mayor Sylvester Turner. Mayor Turner talks about the city's Complete Communities program and how they are coordinating each city department to support historically under resourced neighborhoods.

This week on Mondays Chrissy Mancini Nichols joins the show to talk in more detail about the pandemic and slow streets. We take a bit of a deeper dive on the subject and think about how physical distancing might be a good metric for thinking about streets and for people and commerce. Main Theme - Streets for People Oakland slow streets - Curbed SF New Zealand tactical urbanism - Forbes 100 miles of slow streets in NYC - Streetsblog NYC Milan has a post virus plan - Guardian Paris plans for bike lanes - Forbes Muni's post virus plans - SF Streetsblog Odds and Ends Large fall in CO2 - GreenBiz - Grist Census after a natural disaster - Texas Observer Colorado counties build own telecom - Colorado Sun As always you can support us on Patreon or by getting one of our scarves at TheOverheadWire.com

This week we're joined by Warren Logan, Policy Director of Mobility and Inter Agency Relations for the City of Oakland. Warren talks with us about Oakland's Coronavirus response including how they came up with initiatives to respond to the crisis and some of the specific implementations such as the Slow Streets Initiative. We dive deep into public engagement and how to think about coordination between different departments in new ways. Follow us @theoverhead wire on twitter or visit http://theoverheadwire.com

This week on the podcast we chat with University of Iowa Law Professor Greg Shill. We were invited to talk at Manny's in the Mission in San Francisco by the Urban Environmentalists group, an affiliate club of YIMBY Action. Greg chats with us mostly about his recent research and writing on the normalization of motordom and how we can't really opt out of it, the idea of automobile supremacy, the legal subsidies to driving and even the tax benefits associated with cars.

This week we chat about racial disparities in Coronavirus deaths, the coming housing crunch, and have some fun naming the Western States Pact. News Viral modeling of traffic - Inverse COVID-19 racial disparities - AP Newswire Coronavirus housing - Curbed Odds and Ends Don't flush the wipes - Smart Cities Dive Puppies and Butterflies Teddybear in the window - New York Times

This week we're joined by Gail Nehls and Leslie Patterson of Envida, a nonprofit transportation and home care organization. We chat about how transportation can help those with behavioral health concerns such as opioid addictions and schizophrenia, how innovation can change people's health outcomes, and the systems people need in rural areas to thrive.

Tracy joins the show again to chat about pandemic economics, e-bikes in New York, and infrastructure spending. News Infrastructure bill - The Hill E-bikes now legal in NY - Fast Company Pandemic working paper - MIT News Odds and Ends Fuel economy rollback - LA Times Ann Arbor's carbon neutral plans - M Live Who is sheltering in place - New York Times Story of the Week Infrastructure spending ideas - World Economic Forum Puppies and Butterflies Paper Machet animals in Flagstaff - Arizona Daily Sun

This week on the podcast we're joined by Chris Nelder of the Rocky Mountain Institute and the Energy Transition Show podcast. Chris chats with us about what cities and utilities need to think about as they electrify transportation and how rules and regulations might make it harder than it needs to be. We also chat about how municipal utilities like Seattle are ahead of the curve and whether your local gas station might disappear.

This week on the show Tracy McMillan joins to talk about the recovery bill, HEB logistics, and why pigeons win the urban bird game. News Transport Stimulus - Eno Center HEB logistics - Texas Monthly Internet speeds - Tech Crunch Odds and Ends Pigeons take over - Inverse Italy on lockdown - The Conversation HSR patient transfer - NPR Story of the Week The trips not taken - Streetsblog USA Puppies and Butterflies Strutting Goats - Twitter

This week we're joined by Lindiwe Rennert, Transit Planner at the City of Boston. She chats with us about her work on the Warren Street corridor; the creation of bus priority for the many riders on the corridor, and how to get feedback on projects.

This week Shut Ins Local #101 meets again to talk about quick transportation thinking from Seattle and Bogota while discussing urban design in the time of a pandemic. News Seattle designates curbs for pickup - City of Seattle Bogota expands bike lanes - Smart Cities World Austin Judge throws out council vote - KUT Odds and Ends Cleaner air, less traffic - New York Times Utah pushes forward with renewable plan - Utility Dive Grocery workers deemed essential emergency - The Hill Story of the Week Design in a pandemic - Curbed Puppies and Butterflies The online TP calculator - CNN

This week we're joined by Yonah Freemark of the Transport Politic for his eighth appearance on the show. We look back at past transit predictions and then make a few more for next year. We talk about building subways around the country and cheer ourselves up about the state of transit as well.

This week we're joined by Tracy McMillan and Chrissy Mancini Nichols. We chat about the Coronavirus and some of the changes we might see after it passes. We chat about 3d printed homes outside of Austin and some of the reasons why transit is hard to do in the US. News Why is US Transit so hard to build - Motherboard Austin 3D printed houses - Fast Company Poverty Reduction Plan - WHYY Odds and Ends Amazon nixed green shipping - Bloomberg Equitable home sizes - Fast Company Story of the Week Satellite Carbon Analysis - NASA A new housing bill from CA Sen Scott Weiner - LA Times Puppies and Butterflies Cat Tracker - National Geographic Arnold's PSA - CNN Penguins - Chicago Tribune

This week we're chatting with Geoff Boeing, Assistant Professor of Urban Planning and Spatial Analysis at the Sol Price School of Public Policy at USC. Geoff talks all things data and streets, focusing first on data usage, moving on to street network design, and then to urban design. For more information on us visit http://theoverheadwire.com Follow us on twitter @theoverheadwire

This week I'm solo on the podcast talking about corporate landlords, Austin Transportation, the BQE tunnel, Indianapolis' transit mayhem and more! News Indy transit threatened - Indianapolis Star An $11B tunnel for NYC? - New York Times Sunnyside Yards plan - Wall Street Journal Odds and Ends Austin expanding I-35? - Austin American Statesman Texas high speed rail deal - RFI Heathrow 3rd runway stopped - Guardian Story of the Week New Mobility + Transit - Traffic Technology Today Germany's pedestrian plan framework - City Fix Corporate Landlords - New York Times DC plan for free transit - Washington Post Free transit reaction - GGWash Puppies and Butterflies Oldest buildings in US cities - ArchDaily For more information on our work visit http://theoverheadwire Follow us on twitter @theoverheadwire

This week on the podcast we are chatting with Adrienne Heim and Rafe Rabalais from the SFMTA about the Potrero Yard electric bus and housing project. We chat about modernization, planning, electricity use and much much more!

This is our last week at TRB and we're back on the poster board floor talking with professors and students about their research. This week they cover topics including trip routing with smart phones, stop sign impacts on safety, how rain affects bus travel times, transit agency equity analysis, and much more. To find out more about the presentations or people, links are provided below. Rebecca Kiriazes - Georgia Tech - Research Yousteena Bocktor - McGill University - Research Patrick Loa - University of Toronto - Research Margarita Novales - Universidade Da Coruna Spain - Research Torrey Lyons - UNC Chapel Hill - Research Sultan Ali - Florida International University Travis Moe/Nicolas Farenchak - University of New Mexico - Research Andrew Schouten - UCLA ITS Josef Szende - NYCDOT

This week Chrissy Mancini Nichols is back on the show and we talk HS2 in England, London's congestion, Los Angeles data and disparities in urban areas in the United States. News LA wins Uber appeal - Los Angeles Times HS2 Moves Forward - Guardian Rose Lanes in Portland - Portland Oregonian Rich cities vs growing cities - New York Times Odds and Ends Moscow subway microbiome - Genetic Engineering and Biotech News Cincinnati solar farms - Smart Cities Dive Bike commute joy - SSTI Story of the Week London's Congestion - Guardian Puppies and Butterflies Seattle Tree Singers - The Stranger

This week and next we'll be sharing poster presentations from January's Transportation Research Board Annual Meeting in Washington DC. Each year professors and students from around the world come to present their transportation research in a great hall of knowledge that some believe is the best part of the conference. Getting to talk with folks about their work is extremely satisfying. If you want to learn more about any of the following researchers work, check out our show notes in your podcatcher of choice for links to their work. 1. The 85th Percentile - UCLA Luskin School - Brian Taylor and Yu Hong Hwang - Research Link 2. A Proactive Approach to Redefining Child Road Safety - and Vision Zero - University of Colorado at Denver - Wes Marshall - YouTube Presentation 3. Who is Distracted by Distracted Pedestrians? - Rutgers University - Professor Kelcie Ralph 4. Enhancing Cybersecurity in Public Transportation - University of South Florida- Kevin Dennis and Sean Barbeau - Research 5. Results of the Flower Street Bus Only Lane Pilot - UCLA Luskin School - Cassie Halls - Research 6. The E-Bike Potential: Estimating the Effect of E-Bikes on Person Miles Travelled and Greenhouse Gas on Person Miles Travelled and Greenhouse Gas Emissions Emissions - Portland State University - Mike McQueen - Research 7. Evaluating Uses of Curb Space in NYC - Harvard Kennedy School - Daniel Comeaux 8. Are Cities Prepared for Autonomous Vehicles? - MIT - Annie Hudson - Research 9. Lessons learned from the large-scale application of Driver Feedback Signs in an urban city - University of Alberta - Mingjian Wu - Research Thanks for listening. You can follow us on twitter @theoverheadwire or go to http://theoverheadwire.com

This week we're joined by Professor David Levinson of the University of Sydney for Part 2 of our TRB discussion. This week we chat about the creation and politics of research journals and his new book, The 30 Minute City.

This week on Mondays, Ian Griffiths of Seamless Bay Area joins the show to talk about connecting the dots on transit agency integration, a national architecture executive order, and a little bit of the details on Amazon's HQ2. News Seamless transit - SF Chronicle Federal architecture order 1 - Architecture Record Part 2 - The New Republic Unaffordable Rental Housing 1 - Reuters Part 2 - Harvard JCHS Odds and Ends Paris streets and cycling - Eltis Suburbs around the world - CityLab 10 Day hospital build - Core77 Story of the Week LA and Tokyo - Archinect Bezos and the Musk - Bloomberg Puppies and Butterflies The coyote and the badger Submit a transit mascot for your agency using #transitmascot

This week we're joined Professor David Levinson of the University of Sydney. Professor Levinson spoke to us at the Transportation Research Board conference in Washington DC about his work on measuring access, pricing, understanding the growth of cities, and transport as a utility. This is part 1 of 2. Follow us on twitter @theoverheadwire Find us online at http://theoverheadwire.com

This week Laura Bliss joins the show to talk about SB50's demise, the closing of Market Street to cars, and a red wagon in Germany full of cell phones creating digital traffic. Sharon Feigon also lets us in on what's happening at the Shared Use Mobility Summit in Chicago. News The demise of SB50 - Los Angeles Times New transportation bill coming? - Politico Market Street goes free - Streetsblog USA Odds and Ends American houses have more bathrooms - The Atlantic UPS electric vehicles - Engadget Degraded air quality in US Metros - Environment America Story of the Week Creating traffic jams with phones - The Verge Vacancy Taxes - WBUR

This week we're joined Ben Levine, Executive Director of the Metrolab Network. We chat with Ben about the partnerships that Metrolab forges between cities and academic institutions, data collection and usage, as well as the Civic Innovation Challenge. Follow us on twitter @theoverheadwire Find us online at http://theoverheadwire.com Also check out http://usa.streetsblog.org

This week Laramie Bowron joins the show to talk about Nashville, the Menino Mayors Survey, Andy Byford and more! Swiftly's State of Public Transit Report - Swiftly News Andy Byford resigns - New York Times Paris warehouses get urban makeover - Wired Cities annexing to pump up census #s - New York Times Odds and Ends Household travel in EU - Eltis Oregon DOT launches new office - Smart Cities Dive China bans single use plastics - Core 77 Story of the Week Nashville's transit plans derailed - TransitCenter US Mayors know of safety issues, not solutions - Fast Company

This week we are chatting with Alice Bravo and Carlos Cruz-Casas, Director and Assistant Director respectively of Miami Dade County's Department of Transportation and Public Works. We chat about better buses, managing the right of way, privacy and data, and their contactless fare payment system. Follow us on twitter @theoverheadwire Visit us on the web at http://theoverheadwire.com

It's a Solo show with Greedo this week. We're back from the winter break with some news to share! Also if you want to get on the list for the "Bus Only" soccer scarf, email me at [email protected] News Governor says no more freeways in Texas - D Magazine Mass timber in the news - Arch Daily | Vox London throat - BBC Odds and Ends Farewell to Guardian Cities - Guardian Barcelona's zero emissions zone - Guardian Story of the Week SB50 is Back - Los Angeles Times America's long distance transportation problems - Brookings| Texas Monthly US land use mapped - Visual Capitalist Puppies and Butterflies Transit Supply

This week Hugh Martin of Lacuna joins the podcast to talk about his passion for open source ways to operate city streets in the future. As more and more transportation operators look for space on city streets and perhaps in the air, government needs a way to distribute access fairly based on public priorities and policy. Hugh talks about why he's so passionate about this future for cities and gives us some food for thought on the current state of the relationship between cities and transportation companies.

This week we're joined by Laura Wiens of Pittsburgh for Public Transit to talk about their report on AVs called "Wait, Who's Driving This Thing" Laura chats about vehicle data, the future of bus drivers, the frameworks we need for a positive implementation and blows our mind by comparing the movement for micro-mobility and transport choice to the charter school movement. Follow us on twitter @theoverheadwire or go to http://theoverheadwire.com And if you want to support the show you can do so on Patreon.

This week we're joined by Grace Crunican, former GM at BART. Grace chats about her long and distinguished career as a leader in transportation and what it takes to lead, to mentor, and gives lessons for the next generation of advocates and public officials.

This is one of my favorite episodes ever. I hope folks enjoy this flashback for the holidays. We chat with Alisa Valderrama and Rob Moore of NRDC all about water.

This week we're joined by Ben Kabak of Second Avenue Sagas. We take a look at New York transit issues including who controls the MTA, why subway rides are getting faster, why he started writing about transit in the city, and the L train un-shutdown. We also chat about the 14th Street busway, bad airport transit, and the Mayor's fascination with ferries.

This week Chrissy Mancini Nichols joins the show to talk about Miami's Velocia app, Jakarta's transit expansion, the urban media landscape and much more! News Bloomberg Media purchases CityLab - Mother Jones Restaurants on the "streets" of NYC better reviews - WaPo Indonesia's $40B Metro expansion - South China Morning Post Odds and Ends Headphones to alert pedestrians - Fast Company Wolfhagen Germany goes 100% renewable - The Conversation Amazon's Ring privacy problem - Gizmodo Story of the Week Velocia app rewards active transportation - Fast Company Indonesia's $40B Metro expansion - South China Morning Post

This week we're back at the 2019 Rail~Volution conference in Vancouver BC. We chat with GB Arrington and Steve Dotterer about the early days of Rail~Volution and what the conference has meant to transportation in the United States over the last 25 years. They also tell stories about conferences past from when Al Gore came to Portland to having to move the conference date due to 9/11. Join us for a look at the past and the future.

Tracy McMillan of Nelson Nygaard returns to chat about climate change, gas price sensitivity, and free transit. News Gas price sensitivity - Haas Energy Institute Blog Free transit in Kansas City - Jalopnik The future is transparent wood - Horizon Magazine World News Land sold for Egypt's new capital - Reuters Largest 3D printed building in Dubai - Construction Dive Story of the Week Climate change converts - Deseret News Climate plan for Dallas transportation - Dallas Morning News

This week we're joined by Giacomo Lozzi of Polis to talk about a report he co-wrote about zero emissions sustainable government procurement. Giacomo talks about how cities such as Rotterdam, Oslo, and Copenhagen are trying to measure and manage the emissions they create through the procurement of goods and services.

This week Jeff talks about potential sustainability solutions and some really cool curb management trials. News TfL is suspending Uber's license in London - The Verge Solar company seeks to reduce cement, steel emissions - Wired Story of the Week Curb flow reduces double parking - Smart Cities Dive Bastrop's new code - CNU Public Square Climate change's lithium problem - The New Republic Zombie miles and Napa Weekends - Jalopnik

This week we're here on our own before the Thanksgiving holiday here in the United States. We don't do a story of the week but we review a few big stories from the week before. News Briant Park chairs - Gothamist Ride hailing emissions - Transport and Environment Americans aren't moving - Brookings Silver Tsunami - Zillow HUBZone using old poverty data - Washington Post Housing Department Renamed Inlivian - Charlotte Observer Crash not accident - Forbes

This week we're joined by Antonoia Malchik to talk about her book A Walking Life. Antonia talks about the speed and shallow organizing brought to us by social media, the experience of making a pilgrimage on foot, the importance of walking and nature in human well being, and what a Hollywood Sidewalk might be. Follow us @theoverheadwire on twitter. To support the show, check out our Patreon at http://patreon.com/theoverheadwire

Gillian Gillette of Caltrans and Jeroen Kok of Rebel Group join this week and talk about the California Integrated Travel Project and the Market Sounding report they did to look at the future of integrated payment systems. We also went over the usual news and reviews from the previous week. News Milwaukee workers no longer required to live in city - Milwaukee Journal Sentinel Coastal cities made to plan more housing - LA Times 220 Acre park near downtown Charlotte - Charlotte Agenda Odds and Ends Will Kansas City have free transit? - Kansas City Star Cities sue FCC over fees - Bloomberg Story of the Week What does transportation equity mean? - University of Toronto How transit scaling shapes cities - Phys.org How megacities of Europe stole a continent's wealth - Guardian Puppies and Butterflies Jeff Tumlin to run the SFMTA - Streetsblog SF Funny clip from Utopia on Australian Broadcast Channel - via Brent Toderian tweet

This week we're joined by Tony Garcia of the Street Plans Collaborative to talk about their new report for TRB entitled Fast-Tracked: A Tactical Transit Study. Tony talks about figuring out how to build transit projects, the activists that have been making things happen, and how you determine whether projects are tactical or not. Support the show by going to Patreon.com/theoverheadwire Follow us on twitter @theoverheadwire Sign up for the newsletter at http://theoverheadwire.com

This week I'm on solo talking about the NTSB and Helmets, walkability and the economic ladder, and affordable housing's impact on bond ratings and health care. News NTSB gaga over helmets - Streetsblog NYC Children in walkable communities have leg up - UVA Today Housing's effects on health care costs - Bloomberg Odds and Ends Housing and bond ratings - Bloomberg Seattle has less car ownership - Seattle Times Story of the Week Apple's $2.5B housing push - Curbed SF Augsburg mobility flat rate - Intelligent Transport Democrats blind spot on cars - Huffington Post Housing pushback - Willamette Week Providence shows way on environmental justice plans - Grist

This week we're joined by Dr. Anne Goodchild of the University of Washington's Urban Freight Lab. We chat with Dr. Goodchild about what's missing from the urban transportation discussion, the ideas they are testing for better deliveries, and the future of streets.

This week we're joined by Grayline Group's Joseph Kopser. We talk about transportation data, Minneapolis 2040, drones, freight, and more! News Uber and LADOT trade blows - C|NET NASA wants a major city to have drones by 2028 - C|NET Sidewalk Labs and Waterfront Toronto move forward - Globe and Mail Odds and Ends Real estate commissions - Seattle Times Tulsa attracts remote workers - Next City Story of the Week The first map of America's food supply chain - Fast Company How Minneapolis passed 2040 plan and defeated NIMBYism - The Atlantic 1.5M packages in New York each day - New York Times Puppies and Butterflies Human's home towns - Inverse

This week we're back at the Rail~Volution conference in Vancouver BC for the closing Plenary. GB Arrington moderates a panel with Minneapolis Council President Lisa Bender, Managing Director of the Transformation Alliance Odetta MacLeish White, and President and CEO of the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy Mac McCarthy. The panel discusses the legacy of Rail~Volution along with what is happening now in communities that are making change for the better. From addressing race and housing to climate emissions, this session shares lessons learned and the potential for more.

This week we're here with Han Solo to talk about drone deliveries, wildfires, self driving cars and much much more. News Minneapolis passes 2040 Plan - Star Tribune Sound Transit Board doesn't include subway alternatives - Seattle Times Zoox co-founder says cities are target for AVs - Business Insider Waymo head says boxes going AV before people - Bloomberg First drone delivery - Newsweek Recycling for streets - Core77 Story of the Week Air quality getting worse - Bloomberg SUV sales offset electric vehicles - SSTI Sprawling suburbs cost extra - LSE ULEZ in London a success - Intelligent Transport The Future of the Bodega - Curbed NY Puppies and Butterflies Driving rats - Salon