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

I have noticed that there are a lot of post-mortems on the election, specifically looking inward at some of some of the acute problems cities currently see and why that likely led to a shift for some voters to the right. There are a lot of compelling arguments from commentators about governance and adaptation and

John Simmerman of Active Towns joins the Mondays Show post election to talk about some of the transit wins. We also look ahead and wonder if LA really could go car free for the Olympics and whether Canada is ready for high speed rail. Below are the show notes and items we chatted about on

This week on Talking Headways we’re joined by Julie Huls, CEO of Waymaker Group. We chat about economic development strategies for mid-sized cities, the impacts of the pandemic on regional thinking, and what a future of Mega Regions means for cities trying to attract talent. To listen to this episode, visit Streetsblog USA or find

This week on Talking Headways we’re listening in on a 1 to 1 conversation between Julie Eaton Ernst, Climate Resilience Practice Leader at HNTB, and Dr. Cris Liban, Chief Sustainability Officer at LA Metro. They chat about the co-benefits of transportation, the evolution of the definition of transportation, and making change in small steps. This

We are still catching up on a bit of news from last week while we were at Mpact so some of the stories might have a bit older dates, but of course they are still very relevant! Looking at you Austin and your fun plans for Congress Avenue. I also want to circle two items

We’re going back in time to Episode 144 to chat with Matthew Heins about his book The Globalization of American Infrastructure: The Shipping Container and Freight Transportation. We’ve done a lot of fun shows and I had forgotten about this one until I was looking back trying to think of a good oldie to share