This week on the Talking Headways Podcast we’re at the Mpact conference in Phoenix Arizona and joined by Tom Brennan, Senior Principal at Nelson Nygaard. We talk about the sexy world of bus speed and reliability, how agency can invest for effectiveness, and future proofing routes for the long term.

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This week on Talking Headways we’re joined by author Ben Goldfarb to talk about his book, Crossings: How Road Ecology is Shaping the Future of Our Planet. We discuss how roads cut off ecosystems, wildlife crossings, and animal mobility at different scales.

You can get the book from The Overhead Wire book club at Bookshop.org.

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On December 14th at ~5:30 we’re going to recording a Talking Headways podcast featuring John King discussing his new book Portal: San Francisco’s Ferry building and the Reinvention of American Cities. We’ll be at MTC in San Francisco hosted by the Bay Area Regional Collaborative for one of their Metro Talks series. If you’d like to join us, you can register at this link.

This week on Mondays at The Overhead Wire, we’re Han Solo. But that doesn’t preclude us from sharing the news from the last few weeks including items on work from home serendipity, weaponizing environmental law, and the suspension of Cruise self driving vehicles. Listen in below and check out the show notes below the fold.

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This week on the Talking Headways podcast we’re joined by Danielle Arigoni, Managing Director for Policy and Solutions at The National Housing Trust. We chat about Danielle’s new book Climate Resilience for an Aging Nation as well as housing policy that benefits everyone.

You can find Danielle’s book at our Bookshop Affiliate site or at Island Press.

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This week on the Talking Headways Podcast we’re joined by transit expert and former general manager for three transit systems Ron Kilcoyne. Ron joins us to talk about the importance of running frequent transit service in order to attract riders and how agencies in the Bay Area are underserving the population.

Find Ron’s Streetsblog SF piece here and the report he did for Seamless Bay Area. If you want to message Ron, you can do so at his email address [email protected].

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This week on Talking Headways we’re chatting with professor Des Fitzgerald about his new book The Living City: Why Cities Don’t Need to Be Green to Be Great. We chat about what trees mean to people, the proliferation of moguls that want to build new cities, and the idea of what makes the good city.

To listen to this episode, head over to Streetsblog USA or our archive.

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This week we’re joined by Chris Fabian of Resource X to talk about his work on priority based budgeting. We discuss how cities create budgets that reflect their policy goals and what it takes to find resources for big ideas.

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This week on the Mondays show we’re Han Solo! But that doesn’t stop us from sharing a lot of news!  The Prime Minister of England has pulled the plug on high speed rail, what the pandemic drop in traffic means for access, designing for autism and much much more!

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This week we’re joined by Abby Thorne-Lyman, Former Director of Real Estate at BART, to talk about BART’s development projects and priorities, and the importance of real estate to BART’s future.

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This week we’re joined by UC Davis professor Kari Watkins and epidemiologist Dave Ederer to talk about their paper The Safe Systems Pyramid: A New Framework for Traffic Safety. We talk about the connections between transportation and public health and how it allows us to think differently about transportation safety.

Find David’s full dissertation on Georgia Tech’s website.

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This week on the Mondays show we catch up on some of the news from the last month and go over what’s coming up on the Talking Headways podcast. We talk about post-pandemic transportation, sea level rise impacts on shipping and drinking water, and the world’s smallest skyscraper.

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This week we’re joined by Bob Searns to talk about his book Beyond Greenways: The Next Step for City Trails and Walking Routes. We talk about grand ideas for walking trails that circle whole regions and more local routes that make up a new mode of green infrastructure in cities.

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This week we’re joined by Phoenix community builder Tim Sprague. We chat about supporting local culture through development projects and the importance of sustainable development and transportation.

Today’s podcast was produced in partnership with Mpact. To learn more about the annual conference, visit http://mpactmobility.org

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This week on Mondays at The Overhead Wire we’re joined by Carter Lavin to talk about the city dreams of tech moguls, government capacity, public housing that doesn’t want to be called that, designing delivery trucks and much much more!

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This week we’re joined by Zack Subin of the Terner Center for Housing Innovation and Ben Holland of the Rocky Mountain Institute. Ben and Zack join us to talk about their report Urban Land Use Reform on the importance of land use in reducing travel and emissions.

You can listen to this episode at Streetsblog USA or find it in our archive.

Research Notes:

• Review of recent state land use legislation from Mercatus, including highlighting the WA package, and earlier this year from Terner
• Review of recent trends in VMT/capita by state: WA at head of the pack
• Jenny Schuetz’ Brookings blog summary of her book, which includes a discussion of housing reforms across levels of government and political economy considerations
  • More discussion of the rationale for state governments to lead in this Niskanen Center report
• Thea Riofrancos et al and UC Davis report on lithium requirements to decarbonize US transportation
• Shane Phillips’ paper on the case for broad upzoning, summarized by Todd Litman in Planetizen
• Coolclimate CA planning scenarios from Chris Jones’s team, with linked paper, and 2022 update featured in the NY Times.

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This week we’re sharing a panel discussion on how California High Speed Rail could be sped up. Hosted by Rodger Rudick of Streetsblog SF, Climate Advocate Carter Lavin, Eric Eidlin, Station Planning Manager for the City of San Jose, and Boris Lipkin of the California High Speed Rail Authority discuss what it would take to get the project done faster and all the potential benefits.

You can watch a video of the panel here on YouTube.

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This week on Mondays we’re joined by Kevin DeGood of The Center for American Progress to talk about a study by NCDOT and NC State on Connected Autonomous Vehicles at Intersections.  This leads into a discussion about policy related to autonomous vehicles and saturation. It’s not our usual Mondays news format but it’s a shorter show and gets right to the point!

This week we’re joined by Dr. Robert Blaine of the National League of Cities. We talk about their work helping smaller cities apply for federal infrastructure grants through a bootcamp program and chat about local grant writing capacity and what success looks like.

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This week we’re joined by Yvonne Yeung to talk about ULI’s recent report, Building 15 Minute Communities: a Leadership Guide. We chat about how the guide can help create good development that reduces the need to drive, and supports our climate emissions reduction goals.

Also make sure to sign up for the Webinar on September 13th.

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This week Ryan Wozniak joins the podcast to talk about Phoenix transportation policy, why people are moving to the sunbelt, truth in car advertising, Philly’s plans for its own high line and much more!

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This week we’re listening in to PART 2 of a one to one conversation between David Longoria of LISC in Phoenix and Ryan Winkle of RAIL CDC. They discuss the community work they are doing in Mesa along the light rail line and how they respond to unforeseen outcomes.

This episode was produced in partnership with Mpact. Find out more about the annual conference at http://mpactmobility.org

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This week we’re listening in to PART 1 of a one to one conversation between David Longoria of LISC in Phoenix and Ryan Winkle of RAIL CDC. They discuss the community work they are doing in Mesa along the light rail line and the impact their work has on local businesses.

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This week on Mondays we’re joined by Chrissy Mancini Nichols to talk about a whole host of transportation topics including Lyft’s potential sale of its bike share business, how housing affects dating, congestion pricing politics and more!

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This week we’re joined once more by Susan Crawford, author and Harvard Law Professor to talk about her new book, Charleston: Race, Water, and the Coming Storm. Susan chats with us about sea level rise, city solutions, and opportunities to rethink our responses.

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