February 12, 2025
This week on the Talking Headways podcast we’re joined by Ren Yee of UN Studio at the Mpact Transit + Community conference in Philadelphia. We chat about the cognitive workload of pedestrians and creating safe opportunities for mind wandering and absorbing information. To listen to this episode, find it at Streetsblog USA or in our
Houston has long been hailed as one of the country’s most affordable big cities, bucking national trends. But as the Kinder Institute and others have found, our affordability — and the economic opportunity that comes with it — could be slipping away.
Kea Wilson of Streetsblog USA and I did a Mondays show yesterday where we talked a bout about some of the USDOT memos and rescission of policy direction on diversity, environmental justice, and climate change. We also talk a little about some of the stuff that’s supposed to catch people’s attention for distraction like USDOT