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(Unedited) Podcast Transcript 373: Real Talk on Climate Action and TOD

March 9, 2022

This week we’re joined by Adie Tomer from Brookings to talk about how transit-oriented development and active transportation play into climate strategies over the long term. We talk about mitigation versus adaptation strategies and what solutions work best for each. To listen to the show, go to Streetsblog USA’s podcast page or our hosting archive.



Mondays 106: The Land Use Proxy Fight

February 28, 2022

This week we’re joined by Han Solo, but that doesn’t stop us from having a wonderful conversation about Paris 2024 car free zone, why cities are fighting for a lot of social issues with zoning codes, the nightmare that is the American Dream Mall, why TX Governor Greg Abbott killed a road diet, and the


(Unedited) Podcast Transcript 371: Transit Project Costs and Solutions

February 24, 2022

This week we’re joined by Paul Lewis, Policy Director at the Eno Center for Transportation. Paul discusses their report on transportation construction costs, Saving Time and Making Cents: A Blueprint for Building Transit Better.  We chat about the project database they created for the research, the different level of scrutiny between highway and transit capital


(Unedited) Podcast Transcript 370: Planning for Underground Cities

February 16, 2022

This week we’re joined by Dr. Asal Bidarmaghz, lecturer in Geotechnical Engineering at the University of New South Wales in Sydney. Dr. Bidarmaghz discusses planning for underground infrastructure and why it’s so important for the future of cities including underground climate change, coordination among long term projects, and putting appropriate land uses in better places.


Mondays 105: Seamless Transit

February 15, 2022

This week we’re joined by Ian Griffiths of Seamless Bay Area to talk about their work in the Bay Area and we talk about a few news items from the weeks before on housing and transportation.


(Unedited) Podcast Transcript 369: Treating Social Media Like a City

February 10, 2022

This week we’re joined by Sahar Massachi of the Integrity Institute to talk about his piece in MIT Technology Review titled “How to Save Our Social Media by Treating it Like a City”. We chat about the similarities between managing social media’s bad actors and urban problems like black box highway modeling, speed management, and


(Unedited) Podcast Transcript 368: A Grassroots Bus Network Redesign

February 3, 2022

This week we are featuring a Rail~Volution one on one conversation between Carlos Cruz-Casas, Assistant Director, Department of Transportation and Public Works for Miami Dade County, and Grace Perdomo, Executive Director of Transit Alliance in Miami. Grace and Carlos chat about the Better Bus Project, an advocacy-led community driven redesign of the Miami-Dade bus network.


(Unedited) Podcast Transcript 367: Reimagining Sustainable Cities

January 27, 2022

This week we’re joined by Tina Rosan, Associate Professor at Temple University and Stephen Wheeler, Professor at UC Davis to talk about their new book Reimagining Sustainable Cities: Strategies for Designing Greener, Healthier, More Equitable Communities. We talk about a broad array of topics including rethinking public meetings, urban power dynamics, and structural change in


Mondays 104: New Cities, New Towns, New Trouble

January 24, 2022

We’re Han Solo this week on Mondays at the Overhead Wire!  We talk about Jennifer Homendy and the 94% rule, the need to stop fetishizing old buildings, Donald Shoup’s sidewalk fix, and how some non-profits and foundations are taking a greater governmental role as governments atrophy. We also talk about moving the capital of Indonesia


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