Sydney Australia has opened five new stations on it’s driverless metro line after starting construction back in 2017. Transit enthusiasts woke up early to get the first train and some folks have been blown away by some of the designs. The train will come every 4 minutes at rush hour and can carry up to

This week we’re Han Solo, but we’re chatting about how the First Nations in Vancouver are becoming to largest property developer in California, the idea of urban delivery hubs and switching cargo planning, how cities are heating up at night, and the idea that some folks are tired of losing. Below are the links from

I’ve been having a really hard time lately with a lot of announcements related to transportation electrification that tout a battery powered vehicle, especially trains, as if electrification of vehicles is a new and novel idea. We’ve had overhead wires for over 100 years and we operate them in a lot of cities as do

This week we’re joined by Move Minnesota director Sam Rockwell to talk about climate bills Minnesota legislators have passed that could reduce highway and road building emissions in the state. We chat about setting transportation related climate targets, highway modeling, and taking the time to read federal rule comment letters. To listen to this episode,

Many years ago I attended a political event with friends on political and issue messaging in Austin featuring George Lakoff as a speaker. Lakoff is a cognitive linguist and in his many books and writings he discusses how people use language and metaphors to evoke feelings and reactions. His most famous book, Don’t Think of

Earlier this month we shared a NYT article about what cities get or haven’t got out of the Olympic games since Barcelona. That city famously revitalized its waterfront in 1992 and regenerated different parts of the city in an attempt to create lasting improvements. They are still building on that success. Since then many cities

This week on the Talking Headways podcast swe’re joined by Nico Larco, Director of the Urbanism Next Center at the University of Oregon. We chat about his new book with Kaarin Knudson, The Sustainable Urban Design Handbook as well as a realization about how most of what we do in the United States seems to

Last week I got a nice break and was able to hang out with my family on the central California coast. It’s a place I haven’t spent much time but wish to spend more in the future. I’ve lived in Bakersfield and San Francisco and have visited a lot of the state, but despite decades

This week we’re jumping back in time to visit Talking Headways episode 285 featuring Professor Germaine Halegoua discussing her book The Digital City: Media and the Social Production of Place. It’s one of my favorite book discussions ever and I thought it would be a nice episode to revisit. In this episode, Germaine talks about

This week on Talking Headways we have a conversation moderated by Corrie Parrish of Kittleson Associates with Andrea Breault of Cascades East Transit and Amy Schlappi of Hood River County Transportation District discussing Transit service to the Great Outdoors. This podcast was produced in partnership with Mpact. For more information, go to http://mpactmobility.org To listen