Talking Headways: A Streetsblog Podcast

This week on the Mondays Show we're Han Solo but that doesn't stop us from talking about how to rethink subsidies for economic development, Chicago's new found development powers, and how we rethink the future of transportation when 20th century transportation fails us.

News We Shared

More driving means more deaths - Streetsblog USA

Chicago's new TOD powers - Chicago Sun Times

The tax subsidy solution - Boondoggle

Better economic development - Governing

Agglomeration without diffusion - European Planning Studies

Civilization of bats - Nautilus

Miami underline - ULI

Mobility and care of cognitive labor - Journal of Transport Geography

Affordable auto insurance and car ownership - Transport Policy

BQE rethinking future transport - Architect's Newspaper

Denver Broncos redevelopment - Boulder Daily Camera

BONUS ITEMS

Exempt tax apartments - Post Courier

Medellin heat - El Pais

Oregon's good payroll tax - UrbanPDX

Boosting HSR in Europe - European Sting

Waymo expansion - Gizmodo

Cargo theft - Transport Topics

Bay Area highway bail out - Max Mautner

Oxford street car free - The Guardian

Evolution of urban design theory - Bioengineer

Calls for experimental law - Noema

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This week on the Talking Headways podcast we're joined by Naama Blonder to talk about her book she wrote with her partner Misha Bereznyak entitled Building Charm: A Hyper Practical Guide to Developing Outstanding New Neighborhoods. We chat about the book's focus on human scale and how it radically rethinks street design. +++

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This week on the Talking Headways podcast, we're joined by Jon Nouchi, Director of Transit at the City and County of Honolulu. At the Mpact conference in Toronto, we discussed the idea of iconic transit systems, time as a performance metric, humanizing transit systems, and the Skyline rail line.

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This week on Mondays at The Overhead Wire, Tracy McMillan and Chrissy Mancini-Nichols join the show for episode 200!!! We talk about a mobility idea that's like cap and trade, the idea of time, nostalgia and an imagined future for ourselves, measuring the GDP outcomes of our transportation investments, and the big questions about auto dependence. Lots of great discussion and fun ideas like maybe we should start a book club or a book segment! Let us know what you think.

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This week on Talking Headways is Part 2 of our discussion with Reece Martin in Toronto at the Mpact Transit + Community Conference. We discuss projects getting picked apart in the media, The gap between talent and passion in transit agencies, high speed rail, and the threat of AVs to bad transit.

The Transit Brief

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This episode was recorded at the Mpact Transit + Community conference this year in Toronto. A big thanks to Mpact for always providing us with a space to record to have such great discussions. For more information about next year's conference in Kansas City visit mpactmobility.org

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This week on Talking Headways we are sharing Part 1 of a conversation with Reece Martin of The Transit Brief in Toronto at the Mpact Transit + Community Conference. We discuss the politics and impacts of fare policy, construction costs around the globe, the US' existential crisis, and the material benefits of progress.

This episode was recorded at the Mpact Transit + Community conference this year in Toronto. A big thanks to Mpact for always providing us with a space to record to have such great discussions. For more information about next year's conference in Kansas City visit mpactmobility.org

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This week we're back and Han Solo but we're covering lots of things including the thinking differently about our transportation investments around the country, the sillyness of cutting property taxes in states, and thinking more about tenant investment vehicles. Much more of course! Stay tuned.

News Items

Philly green corridors - Architect's Newspaper

More trains - Grist

Future transport policy - Brookings

The Future is HSR - The Transit Brief

High speed metro is something new - The Transit Brief

City hospice in Florida - Florida Politics

Zurich taking space from cars - Swissinfo.ch

Congestion pricing wins - EDF

Housing as a human right - Dame Magazine

Great american tax freakout - SSRN

Rental investment vehicles - Stanford Social Innovation Review

Plug in hybrids caught emitting more - Transport and Environment

Transit increases GDP - Global News

Bonus Items

Highways and chain stores - Strong Towns

Disbanding public utilities? - Texas Tribune

Childcare takes income - Marketplace

Childcare in New Mexico - The 74

A railroad infrastructure bank - Progressive Railroading

Wastewater recycling in Reno - Governing

Bike sharing can reduce emissions - Simon Frasier University

Electrification could cut Mexican oil use - Mexico Business News

87 year old's eviction in Spain - The Guardian

China opens more HSR - China Daily

Calgary Edmonton HSR - CBC News

Pattern books in housing bill - Bipartisan Policy Center

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This week we're joined by the director of UNC Charlotte's school of Architecture Blaine Brownell. We talk about the role architecture and urbanism play in population decline, the need for permeability in walkable neighborhoods, and a revolution in building materials.

Blaine's upcoming book.

Street Permeability: Architect Magazine

Architecture's role in population collapse: Architect Magazine

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This week on the Talking Headways podcast we're joined by recent USC PhD graduate Wendy Zhou to discuss her dissertation, which focuses on dynamic accessibility. We talk about how static maps without a time based dimension don't tell the whole story on access and the idea of a people based accessibility.

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This week we're flashing back to Talking Headways episode 379 in which we were joined by Frank Markowitz and Leni Schwendinger to talk about the book Outdoor Lighting for Pedestrians. We chatted about creating legible nighttime spaces, what planners should focus on when programming lighted spaces, and the future of lighting and transportation.

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This week we're away at a conference, but we're flashing back to episode 542 where we're joined once again by professor Karel Martens. We learn about how transportation engineering is good at measuring only one problem and ignoring others and a new tool to determine the success of transportation systems.

Fair Transport Lab Website

A scale for describing people's mobility status - Findings Press

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This week we're joined by Sofia Navas and James Nix of the NGO Transport & Environment to talk about their recent report: Ever Bigger? Car Size at a Crossroads. We discuss the increasing size of vehicles and why they keep growing. The safety issues that are tied to vehicle size increases, and the amount of parking and public space that could be lost.

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This week we're Han Solo, but that won't stop us from sharing some interesting news including daylighting urban streams, why we shouldn't put everything on transit, Barcelona's e-bike subsidy, and Charlotte's value created.

News Items

Two ways to daylight streams - The Conversation

Transit scope creep - Works in Progress

Barcelona e-bike - City of Barcelona

The Carbon Wave - MIT Press Reader

Feedback loops - ArchDaily

Charlotte light rail value - Planetizen

Dead malls a thing still? - Arbitrary Lines

Cities need municipal wealth funds - Urban Proxima

Trumps war reduced oil consumption - Yale Climate Connections

Bonus Items

Robotaxis skipping the gas tax - Eno Center for Transportation

Bay area exporting housing shortage - San Francisco Chronicle

Did Chicago TIF work? - University of Illinois Chicago

Las Vegas BRT ridership - Las Vegas Sun

China's new rules for autonomous vehicles - China Daily

New Zealand road user charges set - ITS International

Illinois e-bike bill signed - Government Technology

Heat deaths are higher than shared - NPR

Where do people mix - Northeastern University

Paying for bike lane removal - LA Times

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This week on the Talking Headways podcast we're joined by Joshua Schank to talk about his book New Tricks for Old Bureaucracies: Improving Policy Outcomes in the Public Sector. Joshua talks about the inner workings of LA Metro, benefits of openness and transparency as well as strategic planning. We also share frustrations about meetings, transit board structures, and agency fiefdoms.

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This week on the Talking Headways podcast we're joined by Yale's Karen Seto and University of Connecticut's Zhe Zhu to talk about their study: The Urban Pulse. We talk about using frequent time series satellite data to measure change in cities and the processes of urbanization.

The Urban Pulse - Yale School for the Environment

The Urban Pulse: Diagnosing the urbanization process as spiky, cyclical, and asynchronous - PNAS

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This week on the Mondays Show we are Han Solo again, but have a lot of interesting news to share. We talk about LA's people mover change orders, a poll that finds lots of people want urbanism, and a trip along the coast of West Africa.

Today's Items

People mover change orders - The Hollywood Reporter

Voter attitudes towards green urbanism - Data for Progress

Overperforming downtowns - Patrick Kennedy

West African coast - NPR

E-bike town - Portland Mercury

A city for families - Constructor University

London's social housing - The Guardian

MBTA battery trains - Commonwealth Beacon

Utah cutting emissions - KUER

Hold grail of downtown recovery - Challenger Cities

Bonus Items

Oversize vehicles in Australia - The Conversation

Rooftop rainwater cuts heat - University of Manchester

Delivery protection act - New York Times

China heavy vehicles chewing up roads - Techy 44

Baltimore policing reform - Emerald Pages

Hidden fungal networks - Brighter Side of News

NC Tax break could strip cities - INDY Week

Pike Place market scale back - The Urbanist

Roadless rule - Field and Stream

CA tire efficiency rule - Grist

The modern Sears home - Groundwork Collaborative

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This week on the Talking Headways podcast we're chatting with Dallas Developer, DART Board Member, and urban designer Patrick Kennedy about his recent publication, An Atlas of Intercity Highway Impacts (Available Here). We discuss the tax base removed from cities by highways, what we could have done for cities with federal transportation funding, and the long term value lost.

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This week we're finally doing it! We're going to Kingwood Texas and talking about the greenbelt trail system I've been telling everyone about for years. This is a storytelling episode, featuring guests John Walsh, Jerry Lunow, and Bill Neuhaus so I hope folks enjoy hearing about NASA, timber companies, bike trails, and Houston's bayous. But also, stick around to hear how a suburban development in Texas from the 1970's mirrors and pre-dated Dutch bike planning with special guest, Streetsblog Chicago's Steve Vance.

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This week we're Han Solo and covering some of the news from the last few weeks. We talk about delivery worker stress, Maryland's need to build a revolving loan fund, and how street network design could help us build more housing. Below are the show notes with links from the articles we mentioned.

Main Items

Sydney active transport superhighways - Committee for Sydney

Beauty over billboards - Reasons to be Cheerful

ROAD to housing passes - NPR

ROAD details - Bipartisan Policy Center

EPA wants to allow more truck emissions - New York Times

Maryland case for revolving fund - Maryland Matters

Saving Japans heritage homes - New York Times

Street design for more housing - Planetizen

Curb management can reduce driver stress - Traffic Technology Today

$200 rent for work from home - USA Today

Trump's DOT hates bike lanes - NPR

Architectural waste - Common Edge

Lake Powell in uncharted territory - Utah Public Radio

Bonus Items

San Antonio E-bike program - Smart Cities World

Oregon recycling rules face test - Governing

Chicago bike lane fines - Chicago Tribune

Wall street wants rents to rise - Time Magazine

Policy begets voter engagement - Virginia Mercury

Poland HSR plans - UA

Hungary rail modernization - Daily News Hungary

Zoox can start charging - The Verge

Fiscal crisis facing cities - Urban Proxima

Flock's cameras misread plates - C-Net

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This week on the Talking Headways podcast we're joined by Lisa Jerram of APTA and Philip Plotch of the Eno Center for Transportation to discuss Eno's report: Customization, Competition, and Costs: Findings and Recommendations for the U.S. Transit Bus Industry. We discuss what agencies want in a bus and why, the differences in European and US bus markets, and why customization standardization is hard to achieve.

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