This week on the Talking Headways podcast, Steve Davis of Smart Growth America joins the show to talk about their most recent edition of Dangerous by Design. We chat about where we stand on pedestrian traffic deaths in the United States, the data collected to tell the story, and creating consequences for not improving safety.

A few weeks ago I got to chat with Bill Fulton about a number of topics on the podcast but one that continues to stick out to me is how urban growth and change around the country is clashing with any number of current trends from the silver tsunami to work from home. Along with the

This week on the Talking Headways podcast we’re joined by SFMTA Director of Transportation Julie Kirschbaum. She discusses making system improvements, rising customer satisfaction, lessons from the pandemic on ridership and operations, as well as Muni’s cultural connection to the city. You can listen to this episode at Streetsblog USA. You can also find it

Right now insurance is a window into the public psyche. As the values and prices of homes and cars go up, as well as the cost of replacement, insurance rates follow. Often harshly. This leads us to look for solutions and new ideas for reducing cost burdens because we don’t really want to talk about

This week on the Mondays show Han Solo is back and we’re going through some news from the last month or so.  Some really super interesting items to share in news format from what’s in the ROAD to Housing Act that recently passed, night time transportation, the difference between Costco and Amazon logistics, and what

This Week on the Talking Headways podcast we’re joined by Bill Fulton who has worn many hats including mayor, planning director, think tank director, publisher, professor and currently can be found writing on Substack at The Future of Where. We chat the impacts of work from home on cities, changing migration patterns and the south’s

at the University of Iowa, and Jonathan Levine, Professor of Urban and Regional Planning at the University of Michigan to talk about their paper, First Principals of Transportation Law and Policy. We talk about how to rethink transportation metrics towards accessibility, how the law has embedded mobility in transportation, and why we really travel. Hey

Leroy Marion of autoblog notes that electric vehicles which have higher torque and heavy batteries are much faster than their internal combustion counterparts and becoming more dangerous on public streets. Part of the reason is that in order to move that heavy battery quickly, larger motors are required. No one needs that much power. And as

This week on Mondays at The Overhead Wire, Tracy McMillan is back on the show to talk about a number of items including a piece on the role of the built environment in population decline, the kids of the Netherlands taking part in a four day national walking festival, the prevalence of growing vehicles in

This week on the Talking Headways podcast we’re joined by Will Poff-Webster of the Institute for Progress to talk about their new collection of ideas to bring transit project costs down entitled the Transit Abundance Playbook. We discuss how to translate ideas into legislation, how these ideas fit into the current transportation bill, the importance