Talking Headways: A Streetsblog Podcast

This week on Mondays we're playing catch up with stories from the last five weeks of The Overhead Wire newsletter. Dangerous roads, TXDOT skirts environmental rules, young adults stay close to home, Stuttgart's green corridor and much more. You can find all the links to the stories in the notes below: News Items The most dangerous road in America - Vox Texas skirts enviro laws on highways - Grist Colorado changes transportation course - CPR Young adults not moving far from home - AP Job sprawl spillover - Crain's Cleveland Business Code snitching - Nashville Scene Car free pioneer - Politico EU Office building midlife crisis - Commercial Observer Billionaires gonna NIMBY - The Atlantic California Megaflood - CNN Bathhouse comeback - Mic Stuttgart's green corridors - Reasons to be Cheerful Spanish city fire sprinklers - Wired Follow us on twitter @theoverheadwire Support the show on Patreon http://patreon.com/theoverheadwire Buy books on our Bookshop.org Affiliate site!

This week we're joined by Kim Cella of Citizens for Modern Transit and Sheila Holm of AARP. to discuss how they are transforming transit stops in St. Louis. We chat about how they involve the community, engage transit operators, and bring life to grey spaces. Today's podcast was produced in partnership with RailVolution. Follow us on twitter @theoverheadwire Support the show on Patreon http://patreon.com/theoverheadwire Buy books on our Bookshop.org Affiliate site!

This week we're joined by author Paris Marx to talk about their book Road to Nowhere: What Silicon Valley Gets Wrong about the Future of Transportation. We talk about Technologists and the stories they tell themselves, Ursula K Le Guin's Carrier Bag Theory, and Uber's impact on labor laws. Follow us on twitter @theoverheadwire Support the show on Patreon http://patreon.com/theoverheadwire Buy books on our Bookshop.org Affiliate site!

This week Chrissy and Jeff talk about the Inflation Reduction Act and all the things in the bill from an urban issue standpoint. We talk tax breaks for electric vehicles, tax credits for electric appliances, environmental services and much more! A few articles below we used as sources: Need to Know about IRA - T4America $3B for reconnecting communities - Route Fifty Hurdles for highway removal - Governing Real estate industry and IRA - ULI Low tech solutions: Nature - WaPo Tweet - Georgetown Climate Center IRA and electric bills - CNN IRA and low carbon building materials - Construction Dive Efficiency upgrades and parks in IRA - Smart Cities Dive Follow us on twitter @theoverheadwire Support the show on Patreon http://patreon.com/theoverheadwire Buy books on our Bookshop.org Affiliate site!

This week we're joined by David Andersson, part of the Art and Culture team at Bloomberg Associates. David chats about the implementation and safety characteristics of asphalt art, how communities work on these projects, and the character of public art. Follow us on twitter @theoverheadwire Support the show on Patreon http://patreon.com/theoverheadwire Buy books on our Bookshop.org Affiliate site!

This week we're joined by architecture writer and journalist Alexandra Lange to talk about her book: Meet Me by the Fountain: An Inside History of the Mall. We chat about the evolution of the mall, equity and legal implications, and of course pop culture. Follow us on twitter @theoverheadwire Support the show on Patreon http://patreon.com/theoverheadwire Buy books on our Bookshop.org Affiliate site!

This week on Talking Headways, we're listening in on a 1 to 1 conversation between City of Phoenix planner Elias Valencia, and community champion Victor Vidales. Elias and Victor talk about the process of creating the South Central TOD Community Plan and what it takes to create strategies that empower neighborhoods and reduce displacement. This episode was produced in partnership with Railvolution. Follow us on twitter @theoverheadwire Support the show on Patreon http://patreon.com/theoverheadwire Buy books on our Bookshop.org Affiliate site!

This week we're Han Solo, but don't let that stop you from listening to the news! We chat about DOT's emissions monitoring plan as well as Charlotte's ridership drop. News Links: Charlotte's dropping ridership - WFAE Oregonians fought sprawl - Oregon Public Broadcasting Hoboken shows way on Vision Zero - Streetsblog USA Cities prepare for heat waves - Politico EU Administration floats emissions monitoring - Smart Cities Dive Follow us on twitter @theoverheadwire Support the show on Patreon http://patreon.com/theoverheadwire Buy books on our Bookshop.org Affiliate site!

This week we're joined by Professor Michael Neuman to talk about his book Sustainable Infrastructure for Cities and Societies. We chat about why trees are important models for infrastructure development, the important lessons of Barcelona for the world, and why infrastructure is lately seen as a monetary asset instead of a public good.

This week we're joined by Jonathon Stalls, author of a new book: Walk: Slow Down, Wake Up, and Connect at 1-3 Miles Per Hour. We talk about his work on social media with Pedestrian Dignity and his walk across the United States in 2010. Follow us on twitter @theoverheadwire Support the show on Patreon http://patreon.com/theoverheadwire Buy books on our Bookshop.org Affiliate site!

This week on Mondays we're joined by Sophia Li, the editor of the Talking Headways podcast and Landscape Architecture Masters Candidate at the Harvard GSD. We chat about Doug Gordon's piece on the phrase 'Ban Cars', Bogota's GPS pricing scheme, sounds of cities, and how Germany is coping with the 9 Euro pass. Join the fun! Links from the show: Bogota's congestion pricing plan - Government Technology "Ban Cars" - Jalopnik Sound and the city - Noema Magazine Also sound related - MIT Technology Review Germany's 9 euro pass - Deutsche Welle Follow us on twitter @theoverheadwire Support the show on Patreon http://patreon.com/theoverheadwire Buy books on our Bookshop.org Affiliate site!

This week on Talking Headways we're joined by staff from MARTA in Atlanta for a 1 on 1 conversation. Collie Greenwood, Deputy General Manager, and Jacob Vallo, Senior Director of TOD, Real Estate, and Art in Transit talk with each other about the agency's bus network redesign and their TOD program. Follow us on twitter @theoverheadwire Support the show on Patreon http://patreon.com/theoverheadwire Buy books on our Bookshop.org Affiliate site!

This week we're joined by Reece Martin, who discusses transit systems around the world on his YouTube channel RM Transit. Reece joins us to take an audio tour of Canadian Transit as well as discuss his recent visit to London to ride the Elizabeth Line. Follow us on twitter @theoverheadwire Support the show on Patreon http://patreon.com/theoverheadwire Buy books on our Bookshop.org Affiliate site!

This week we're joined by Catie Gould of the Sightline Institute, to talk about Oregon's plans for reducing parking regulations in cities. We chat about case studies from Portland OR and Fayetteville AR and the impact of parking lots on the urban heat island. Follow us on twitter @theoverheadwire Support the show on Patreon http://patreon.com/theoverheadwire Buy books on our Bookshop.org Affiliate site!

This week we're joined by University of Pennsylvania's Fritz Steiner and Bob Yaro and University of Texas' Ming Zhang to talk about their new book, Megaregions and America's Future. We discuss the idea of Megaregions and why they are so important for the future of our society and the planet. Follow us on twitter @theoverheadwire Support the show on Patreon http://patreon.com/theoverheadwire Buy books on our Bookshop.org Affiliate site!

This week we're joined by writer Dan Moore to talk about his piece in The Ringer entitled "What Do Cities Lose When they Lose Pro Sports?" Dan chats about why stadium deals are A bigger story about cities and how they can be harmful or potentially beneficial. Follow us on twitter @theoverheadwire Support the show on Patreon http://patreon.com/theoverheadwire Buy books on our Bookshop.org Affiliate site!

This week we're solo but that doesn't mean we don't have some interesting news for you! San Diego billboards and Rotterdam roof parks coming at you! News Learning about Chinese Metros - That's Magazine Rotterdam's roof parks - Surface Magazine TXDOT wants to bury I345 - D Magazine San Diego's billboard rules - San Diego Union Tribune Texas activists battle billboard companies - NPR Germany's 9 euro pass - The Mayor.eu Regulating particulates - Euractiv Tire particles 2000x worse than exhaust - Guardian Puppies and Butterflies Lego Lisbon Tram - The Brick Fan Follow us on twitter @theoverheadwire Support the show on Patreon http://patreon.com/theoverheadwire Buy books on our Bookshop.org Affiliate site!

This week we're joined by Regional Plan Association President and CEO Tom Wright. Tom looks back at the history of the RPA, the current process for congestion pricing in New York City, and how the Triborough transit line got traction. We also talk about the organization's thinking on climate change and more! Follow us on twitter @theoverheadwire Support the show on Patreon http://patreon.com/theoverheadwire Buy books on our Bookshop.org Affiliate site!

This week we're listening to a one to one conversation between St. Paul Developer Johnny Opara of JO Companies and Lea Hargett, Principal of Jog Associates. They talk about LISC's Capacity Building programs that support developers of color, why Johnny got into development, and barriers people of color face in the market which includes the many different types of capital. Follow us on twitter @theoverheadwire Support the show on Patreon http://patreon.com/theoverheadwire Buy books on our Bookshop.org Affiliate site!

This week on Mondays we're joined by Jerome Horne of TransitCenter to share thoughts on Amazon deliveries, new bus networks in Boston, Segregation by Design's visualizations, and new infrastructure technical assistance and housing plans from the White House. The News Visualizing the legacy of America's racist urbanism - Fast Company Ethics of next day delivery - Guardian Boston's bus plan - WBUR Housing supply action plan - White House Infrastructure Technical Assistance Guide - White House Safe Streets for All Grant Program - USDOT Puppies and Butterflies Bee Bus Stops - BBC

This week we're listening in on a one-on-one conversation between Stephanie Gidigbi Jenkins of NRDC and North Star Strategies and Helen Chin, President of the Communities First Fund. Stephanie and Helen discuss why this is an important moment for infrastructure equity and the creation of the Communities First Infrastructure Alliance and its principles. You can find the White House's Technical Assistance Guide linked here and Communities First Infrastructure Alliance Principles and organizations here. Follow us on twitter @theoverheadwire Support the show on Patreon http://patreon.com/theoverheadwire Buy books on our Bookshop.org Affiliate site!

We are Han Solo this week but wanted to clear the pallet for next week's guest. We chat about Oslo's environmental progress, LA's Universal Basic Mobility plans, and how people walking slowly increases perceived crowding. The links the all the stories are in the show notes below! Money for mergers in Flemish Belgium - The Mayor.eu Who rules transit? - TransitCenter Oslo and Climate Change - The New Yorker Norway may scale back EV perks - Bloomberg Universal basic mobility pilot - LA Times Car filters and particles - Reuters Open JFK drive - SF Examiner Rural criteria changes for Census - Associated Press Denmark to label food for climate change - Food Policy Center Green walls in offices - Medical XPress Testing a full size autonomous bus - BBC A perception of people congestion - Science Daily Puppies and Butterflies! Shop Pets! - Minneapolis St. Paul Magazine Follow us on twitter @theoverheadwire Support the show on Patreon http://patreon.com/theoverheadwire Buy books on our Bookshop.org Affiliate site!

This week we're joined by Alix Gould-Werth of the Washington Center for Equitable Growth and Alex Murphy Assistant Professor at the University of Michigan Department of Sociology to talk about their work on the topic of transportation insecurity. We chat about what went in to the creation of the transportation security index and why we haven't yet created a federal program for individuals like food stamps or housing vouchers for transportation. You can find their paper Developing a New Measure of Transportation Insecurity: An Exploratory Factor Analysis at the Survey Practice website. Also Validating the Sixteen-Item Transportation Security Index in a Nationally Representative Sample: A Confirmatory Factor Analysis. They also have an article at the Washington Center for Equitable Growth. Follow us on twitter @theoverheadwire Support the show on Patreon http://patreon.com/theoverheadwire Buy books on our Bookshop.org Affiliate site!

This week we're joined by Harriet Tregoning, Director at NUMO, and Yonah Freemark, a senior research associate at the Urban Institute to talk about their report, Charting Out a Next-Generation, Place-Based Federal Transportation Policy. We talk what needs to change about federal policy and the entities that need to pursue it. Follow us on twitter @theoverheadwire Support the show on Patreon http://patreon.com/theoverheadwire Buy books on our Bookshop.org Affiliate site!

This week we're joined by Travis Norvell, Minister at Judson Memorial Baptist Church in Minneapolis to talk about his book Church on the Move. We talk about transforming church parking lots, creating bike commute reports for local radio, and how church has changed after the advent of the automobile. Follow us on twitter @theoverheadwire Support the show on Patreon http://patreon.com/theoverheadwire Buy books on our Bookshop.org Affiliate site!

This week we're talking about smart homes, the metaverse, and kids running errands in Japan! We also chat indoor air quality and teen brains on driving. Smart home company disappears - Ars Technica How governments can use the metaverse - American City and County Thinking indoor air quality - GQ Americans believe suburbs are greener than cities - YouGov Science of reckless driving - Discover Magazine Teen Brains - National Geographic Urban design for toddlers - Slate Follow us on twitter @theoverheadwire Support the show on Patreon http://patreon.com/theoverheadwire Buy books on our Bookshop.org Affiliate site!

This week we're joined by Frank Markowitz and Leni Schwendinger to talk about the new book Outdoor Lighting for Pedestrians. We chat about creating legible nighttime spaces, what planners should focus on when programming lighted spaces, and the future of lighting and transportation. Follow us on twitter @theoverheadwire Support the show on Patreon http://patreon.com/theoverheadwire Buy books on our Bookshop.org Affiliate site!

This week we're joined by Jenny Schuetz, a senior fellow at Brookings Metro to talk about her new book Fixer Upper. We chat about making housing decisions at the wrong scale, where housing reform would make the most sense around the United States, and how we could use MPOs to better organize regional housing. Follow us on twitter @theoverheadwire Support the show on Patreon http://patreon.com/theoverheadwire Buy books on our Bookshop.org Affiliate site!

This week we're featuring a 1 to 1 conversation produced in partnership with Railvolution between Aidil Ortiz, Principal at Aidilisms and Mary Kate Morookian, a transit planner at Kimley Horn. Aidil and Mary Kate discuss the Durham Transit Plan and how they approached public engagement while centering the community in the process. Follow us on twitter @theoverheadwire Support the show on Patreon http://patreon.com/theoverheadwire Buy books on our Bookshop.org Affiliate site!

This week on Mondays we talk a lot of different subjects including Christopher Alexander's A Pattern Language and how where you grow up impacts how good you are at directions. Join us for an Idaho Stop won't you? Where you grow up determines your directions - NYT Omaha Plans for the future of Downtown - Omaha World Herald Colorado Could Soon Allow Idaho Stops - Colorado Politics Boomers Tell Millennials there's No Crisis - New Statesman Tire Chemicals are killing fish - Toronto Star Why Christopher Alexander Still Matters - Planetizen Follow us on twitter @theoverheadwire Support the show on Patreon http://patreon.com/theoverheadwire Buy books on our Bookshop.org Affiliate site!

This week we're joined by Kevin Krizek, Professor at the University of Colorado Boulder and David King, Assistant Professor at Arizona State University, to talk about their book, Advanced Introduction to Urban Transport Planning. We chat about access, justice, and why this book is perfect for changing the conversation around transportation. Follow us on twitter @theoverheadwire Support the show on Patreon http://patreon.com/theoverheadwire Buy the book on our Bookshop.org Affiliate site!

This week we're joined again by Jeremy Levine, Assistant Professor of Organizational Studies and Sociology at the University of Michigan. In part 2 of our conversation Jeremy talks more about his book Constructing Community: Urban Governance, Development, and Inequality in Boston. In Part 2 we discuss how people talk about "the community" and what public outreach and participation could look like in the future. Follow us on twitter @theoverheadwire Support the show on Patreon http://patreon.com/theoverheadwire Buy the book on our Bookshop.org Affiliate site!

This week on the show we talk about the impact of gas prices and have some studies on urbanization's impact on getting to net zero! We also talk about insurance and wild fires. Lots of different topics! The NIMBY King - The Atlantic Americans struggle with vehicle costs - Guardian San Diego road pricing - Time Magazine Is mass urbanization good for the climate - Anthropocene Disaster Insurance - The Atlantic Follow us on twitter @theoverheadwire

This week we're joined by Jeremy Levine, Assistant Professor of Organizational Studies and Sociology (by courtesy) at the University of Michigan. Jeremy talks about his book Constructing Community: Urban Governance, Development, and Inequality in Boston and describes how neighborhood groups, elected officials, and public servants all claim the mantle of representing "the community." In Part 1 we discuss how he went about his research in Boston, and how groups coalesced around the idea of the Fairmount Corridor. Follow us on twitter @theoverheadwire Support the show on Patreon http://patreon.com/theoverheadwire Buy the book on our Bookshop.org Affiliate site!

This week we're joined by Adie Tomer from Brookings to talk about how transit-oriented development and active transportation play into climate strategies over the long term. We talk about mitigation versus adaptation strategies and what solutions work best for each. Follow us on twitter @theoverheadwire Support on Patreon http://patreon.com/theoverheadwire Visit The Overhead Wire on Bookshop.

This week we're joined by Yonah Freemark, a senior research associate at the Urban Institute. We chat about the impacts of the pandemic on office work, rethinking federal transportation policy, and make our annual predictions on next year's transportation policies and projects. Follow us on twitter @theoverheadwire Shop authors at our Bookshop shop. Support the show at http://patreon.com/theoverheadwire

This week we're joined by Han Solo, but that doesn't stop us from having a wonderful conversation about Paris 2024 car free zone, why cities are fighting for a lot of social issues with zoning codes, the nightmare that is the American Dream Mall, why TX Governor Greg Abbott killed a road diet, and the divergence between American and European cities. Follow us on twitter @theoverheadwire Purchase books from our store! Support us on Patreon!

This week we're joined by Paul Lewis, Policy Director at the Eno Center for Transportation. Paul discusses their report on transportation construction costs, Saving Time and Making Cents: A Blueprint for Building Transit Better. We chat about the project database they created for the research, the different level of scrutiny between highway and transit capital projects, and some of the ways agencies can create better governance structures and lower project costs. Follow us on twitter @theoverheadwire Support the show on Patreon http://Patreon.com/theoverheadwire

This week we're joined by Dr. Asal Bidarmaghz, lecturer in Geotechnical Engineering at the University of New South Wales in Sydney. Dr. Bidarmaghz discusses planning for underground infrastructure and why it's so important for the future of cities. Follow us on twitter @theoverheadwire Support the show on Patreon: http://patreon.com/theoverheadwire

This week we're joined by Ian Griffiths of Seamless Bay Area to talk about their work in the Bay Area and we talk about a few news items from the weeks before on housing and transportation. Ann Arbor council divided on zoning investigation - MLive Slower growth in Colorado - Colorado Public Radio French slow rail - The Local.fr Sprawl declines with gas price rise - Anthropocene Climate promises challenged by highway money - Bloomberg Follow us @theoverheadwire Support the show on Patreon. http://patreon.com/theoverheadwire

This week we're joined by Sahar Massachi of the Integrity Institute. Sahar discusses his piece in MIT Technology Review connecting cities and social media platforms and how we should be monitoring and managing them properly. We chat about the similarities between managing social media's bad actors and the urban problems like black box highway modeling, speed management, and city building. Follow us on twitter @theoverheadwire Support the show on Patreon! http://Patreon.com/theoverheadwire

This week we are featuring a one on one conversation between Carlos Cruz-Casas, Assistant Director, Department of Transportation and Public Works for Miami Dade County, and Grace Perdomo, Executive Director of Transit Alliance in Miami. Grace and Carlos chat about the Better Bus Project, an advocacy-led community driven redesign of the Miami-Dade bus network.

This week we're joined by Tina Rosan, Associate Professor at Temple University and Stephen Wheeler, Professor at UC Davis to talk about their new book Reimagining Sustainable Cities: Strategies for Designing Greener, Healthier, More Equitable Communities. We talk about a broad array of topics including rethinking public meetings, urban power dynamics, and structural change in government systems. Follow us on twitter @theoverheadwire

We're Han Solo this week on Mondays at the Overhead Wire! We talk about Jennifer Homendy and the 94% rule, the need to stop fetishizing old buildings, Donald Shoup's sidewalk fix, and how some non-profits and foundations are taking a greater governmental role as governments atrophy. We also talk about moving the capital of Indonesia away from Jakarta, the future of underground cities, concrete block alternatives, and Fort Worth's river redevelopment plan. Follow us on twitter @theoverheadwire

This week we're joined by Anna Zivarts from Disability Rights Washington and Paulo Nunes-Ueno from Front and Centered. They join us to talk about the Disability Mobility Initiative and story map, as well as the Mobility Bill of Rights. We also chat about why mobility experiments might make travel harder for disabled travelers and why a core part of anyone's civil rights should be the ability to be safe on the road. Follow us on twitter @theoverheadwire Support the show on Patreon. http://Patreon.com/theoverheadwire

This week we're joined by Shannon Mattern, professor of Anthropology at the New School for Social Research. Shannon talks with us about her new book A City is Not a Computer: Other Urban Intelligences. We discuss the ideas of smartness versus wisdom, the idea of maintenance as a way of absorbing information, and the city as a processing machine, just not in the ways you might automatically think. Follow us on twitter @theoverheadwire Support the show on Patreon: Http://patreon.com/theoverheadwire

This week we're on our own talking about empty storefronts (NYT), whether transit should be run like a business (Laurel in Transit), the ethics of building multifamily housing on arterial streets (Slate), and Tri-Rail's problems pulling into the station (Miami Herald). All that right here on Mondays at The Overhead Wire.

This week on the podcast, we're back at last fall's virtual Railvolution conference. Former BART GM Grace Crunican moderates a panel discussing the role of board members in transit agencies with Former MBTA board member Monica Tibbits-Nutt and former Houston Metro board member Christof Spieler. They talk about how to deal with board members with opposite ideas, how to help agency staff, and using the budget as a policy document. Follow us on twitter @theoverheadwire Support the show on Patreon. http://patreon.com/theoverheadwire

This week we're flashing back to an episode in March where we were joined by Karel Martens, Professor of Architecture and Town Planning at Technion – Israel Institute of Technology and head of the Fair Transport Lab at Technion. Karel talks with us about the philosophy underpinning the idea of sufficient accessibility and how he got to the idea in his book Transport Justice.

This week we're joined by Michael Spotts, a senior visiting research fellow at ULI's Terwiliger Center for Housing and head of Neighborhood Fundamentals. Michael chats with us about takeaways from the Shaw Symposium on Urban Community Issues, the definition of infrastructure, and the importance of taking a systems approach to important interconnected topics like transportation, education, and health care. Follow us on twitter @theoverheadwire