There’s an interesting confluence of events that has emerged around passenger rail in Texas and Mexico over the last year. Mexico’s previous president Andrés Manuel López Obrador had built around 900 miles of passenger rail and that policy of expansion is something that the new president, Claudia Scheinbaum wishes to continue, however more aligned with

We’re flashing back to Talking Headways Episode 246 from five years ago and chat with Andrew Own of the Accessibility Observatory about access as a metric! Wes Marshall will be back next week but in the meantime we’ve got you covered with some great information.

This week we’re joined by Cameron Mays, lead singer of the Transit Themed band The Frans. We chat about transit in Cleveland, the song writing process for transit music, and the parking lot in Erie Pennsylvania that inspired him. To listen to this episode, visit Streetsblog USA or find it in our hosing archive. Below

I think there have been a lot of people that are optimistic about the potential for climate havens though many of the items we’ve shared here do have a healthy dose of skepticism. But after Hurricane Helene shot through Florida, Georgia, and North Carolina and left tragedy and floodwaters in its wake this past weekend,

My family got me a collapsible wagon for my birthday a few years ago and it’s seriously one of my favorite urban living car free solutions ever. From an access standpoint, it also allows me to walk right up to the grocery store doors and lock it folded up to the rack just like a

This week we’re joined by Cassidy Boulan and Thom Stead of the Delaware Valley Regional Planning Commission (DVRPC). We chat about their work in Philadelphia, Trenton, and greater New Jersey related to complete streets and creating safe infrastructure for biking and bus drivers. To listen to this episode, find it at Streetsblog USA or our

I want to go back to a few items we posted yesterday to think a little bit more about public space and solutions to wanted versus unwanted activities and uses. In an op-ed for the Urbanist in Seattle, Samuel Wolff argues that Seattle’s newly approved ‘banishment zones’, which are the city’s interpretation of the Grant’s

This week on Mondays we’re joined by Professor Wes Marshall of the University of Colorado Denver to go through this week’s news. We talk 15 Minute Cities, increasing car loans, social housing, and whether a new train to Boulder makes sense. We’re also sharing this one on YouTube in a few days. Listen in on

This week on the Talking Headways podcast we’re hitting 500 episodes! And to celebrate we have a bit of a look back in time with Tanya Snyder of the origins of the show and then we chat with Ken Napzok and Joseph Scrimshaw of my favorite podcast Force Center.  But we don’t talk about Star

Recently we’ve chatted a lot about a paper done by Professors Chris Redfearn and Anthony Orlando (Podcast | Blog) which discusses how Texas and California are two very different regulatory markets but seeing very similar rises in housing prices as they run out of sprawl-able land. California is expensive but Texas is catching up because