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New York Mayor Mamdani has announced his support of the Delivery Protection Act which would require companies like Amazon to hire delivery workers directly instead of contracting with companies to do it for them. I had heard of this recently when we had Benjamin Fong on the podcast to talk about his work mapping Amazon
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. Below are
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
