On our most recent Mondays Show with Chrissy Mancini Nichols of Walker Consultants we talked about the most interesting news shared here at the newsletter over the last few weeks. As we were discussing Japan’s big idea for a massive freight conveyor belt between Osaka and Tokyo, Chrissy brought up something interesting I don’t think

This week on Mondays Chrissy Mancini-Nichols is back! We talk about universal basic mobility, cool corridors, Japan’s idea for a massive underground freight conveyor belt and freight’s first mile last mile problem, health problems caused by a Texas bitcoin mine, and USDOT’s push for emissions reductions. Chrissy also mentioned commenting on the PROWAG regulations Also

This week on the Talking Headways podcast we’re joined by Kevin Kelley, founding partner and principal at Shook Kelley. We talk about his book Irreplaceable: How to Create Extraordinary Places that Bring People Together. We discuss eliciting emotions, the debate between themes and authenticity, changing the meaning of cities, and embracing density. You can purchase

I want to circle back to something that was posted Monday on a rent cap proposal and discussed more yesterday. I see a lot of hand wringing over the policy of rent control generally on social media so I wanted to jump in and see what the idea is overall. First there are a lot

One interesting item at least for me today is the Associated Press piece on delivery company Door Dash and the pressure they are feeling to reduce dangerous driving by drivers on two wheels. What strikes me about this is that often vehicle laws in the Untied States are written with cars in mind, and so

This week on Talking Headways we’re joined by Adriana Rizzo of Californians for Electric Rail. We chat about freight and warehousing growth in California’s Inland Empire, the benefits of train electrification and a new California CEQA exemption push for overhead wires, and why hydrogen trains are getting more attention. You can listen to this episode

Two items today (Lincoln Institute | New York Times feat. Economic Renaissance Group) point at an economic growth surge amongst historically strong but weakened midwestern and southeastern industrial cities and counties. The two pieces point at two different potential reasons for the change; industrial policy and finance and a surge in startups that could signal

This week on the Mondays show, we’re Han Solo but have a lot of interesting items about shorter work weeks, children’s brains and the impact of traffic noise, overbuilt retail, and highway expansion and climate change. Below are the links and show notes: News Items Supreme court overturns Chevron – Grist Supreme court on homeless

On this fourth of July special replay of Talking Headways we’re going back to Episode 382 with Alix Gould-Werth and Alex Murphy discussing their work on transportation insecurity.  Anna Zivarts mentioned this work in her book and recently on the podcast and I think it’s really important to share it again.  Hope everyone has a

Barcelona Metropolis shares the idea of moving to a four day work week in hopes of increasing the amount of leisure time people have, which in turn could boost civic participation and reduce emissions from transportation. They took note of a month in Valencia Spain in holidays in the month of April meant four weeks