We’ve got a cool new tool we hope folks enjoy.  We have the audio of the podcast connected to the transcript. Hopefully this is useful for folks.  This is a full edited transcript for Talking Headways Episode 287.

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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.

Full transcript below:

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This week I didn’t want to say much because at this time people don’t need to listen to me talk right now.  But I did want to share some of the voices and speeches given by black mayors. CityLab put together a piece with quotes and I took the audio so you could hear their voices.

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We’re chatting with Houston Mayor Sylvester Turner about the city’s Complete Communities program, which seeks to coordinate each city department to support historically under-resourced neighborhoods. The full transcript can be found after the break.

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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.  You can view the un-edited full transcript here.

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This is the full transcript for Talking Headways Episode 281.

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.

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The complete transcript for Episode 279 is below the fold…

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.

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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.

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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.

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We’ve been posting transcripts to our podcast episodes after we clean them up.  Click through for a full transcript of the episode below.

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This week we chat about racial disparities in Coronavirus deaths, the coming housing crunch, and have some fun naming the Western States Pact.

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We’ve been putting out a few transcripts for the podcasts so if folks like to read them they can get them easier. Follow below for the full transcript.

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Here’s a full transcript of episode 277 with City of Boston Transportation Planer Lindiwe Rennert.

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Tracy joins the show again to chat about pandemic economics, e-bikes in New York, and infrastructure spending.

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This week on the show Tracy McMillan joins to talk about the recovery bill, HEB logistics, and why pigeons win the urban bird game.

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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.

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We’re posting transcripts to the Talking Headways podcast episodes as we can clean them up from the AI. Here’s the transcript from the first part of our trip to the TRB Annual Meeting.

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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.

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This week I’m solo on the podcast talking about corporate landlords, Austin Transportation, the BQE tunnel, Indianapolis’ transit mayhem and more!

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We’re going to start posting transcripts for the Talking Headways podcast episodes. We did a test a week or so ago and it turned out pretty good.  So here’s episode 271 with David Levinson.  I’ve also posted the audio at the top as well.

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This week on Mondays at The Overhead Wire, 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.

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So we’ve gotten a lot of requests in the past to create transcripts, but never did it because it was either too expensive or time consuming. But I think the cost and time have come down to a place where we can start posting them. So here’s the first one (Episode 85: You Can’t Swim After the Storm) which we posted as a bonus episode over Christmas and hopefully there will be more and I’ll try to post them soon after the episodes are posted.

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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.

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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.

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One of the things I’ve been talking about for a while is figuring out a reward for podcast listeners and long time guests. The idea of a supporter soccer scarf designed for transportation nerds was what I came up with. My intern Khris and I designed it and I had it made by Roughneck Scarves.

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