We posted a super interesting read in The Atlantic about the consolidation of grocery stores and how that has led to accelerating food access issues since the 1980s. Stacey Mitchell of the Institute for Local Self Reliance writes those changes coincided with the rise of food deserts around the country. The culprit seems to be

This week we’re at Mpact in Philadelphia chatting with King County Metro’s Rachel DeCordoba about her work educating the next generation of transit riders with the agency’s youth mobility program. She chats about transit education and curriculum and the importance of learning with peers. You can listen to this episode at Streetsblog USA or find

In Slate, David Zipper looks into the behavioral science research on why it’s hard for commuters to change their transportation habits away from driving and why it’s a major life event that may dislodge people from their status quo. Many times what’s tied to these life events is residential relocation which studies have also shown

This week on Mondays at The Overhead Wire we’re Han Solo, but that doesn’t stop us from sharing upcoming episodes of Talking Headways and news from the last month or so.  We chat about greening concrete, a car free Congress Avenue, Hamburg’s green space compact, and rainways in Vancouver BC. Links from the Show below

This week we’re joined by Ryan Kelley, Community development Manager for Hennepin County in Minnesota. Ryan chats with us about the county’s transit-oriented communities program and how they support commercial preservation and aid businesses. This episode was produced in partnership with Mpact. For more information, visit http://mpactmobility.org You can listen to this episode at our

This week on Talking Headways we’re joined by writer Rob Walker to talk about his book, City Tech: 20 Apps, Ideas, and Innovations Changing the Urban Landscape. We discuss data collection, misconceptions, impressive transportation technologies such as e-bikes, and how technology has progressed in the last decade. You can listen to this episode at Streetsblog

Early on when I started my blog back in 2006, around the same time as this newsletter, I thought I knew everything and wanted to share it. Now I know nothing, or at least it feels that way. Of course that’s not really true but that’s sometimes how it feels when there’s just so much

A Flashback! That’s right we’re flashing back again to Episode 308 of the Talking Headways podcast with Sara Hendren discussing her book What a Body Can Do. Sara chats with us about how we think and talk about disability, reframing independent living, and designing a humane world for everyone. This is one of my favorites

Yesterday we shared a report from Brookings that looked at how State DOT’s could and should be more accountable in their transportation spending. It took the research team six months to catalogue how states select projects and what they found was that only nine states associate performance measures with long term planning goals and set

This week we’re joined by Dani Simons, currently of Alstom but formerly Assistant to the Secretary and Director of Public Affairs at USDOT, to take a look back at how Biden Administration policies evolved from ideas to bills such as the IIJA and Inflation reduction act. We also discuss Buy America, the impacts of outside