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(Unedited) Podcast Transcript 353: Depave Cities

September 30, 2021

This week on the podcast we’re joined by Mary Pat McGuire, Associate Professor of Landscape Architecture at the University of Illinois.  Mary Pat talks with us about what happens to water after it hits the pavement, the damaging environmental impacts of covering cities in pavement, and steps we can take to reduce runoff in green



(Unedited) Podcast Transcript 352: The Community Knows What it Wants

September 22, 2021

This month on the Railvolution podcast we’re joined by Duncan Hwang, Interim Co-Director of the Asian Pacific Network of Oregon and Gauri Rajbaidya, architect and senior associate at SERA. They chat with us about community driven development in Portland’s Jade District and how it’s connected to the rest of the region. To listen to this


(Unedited) Podcast Transcript 351: The Rules Require Death

September 16, 2021

This week we’re joined by Dr. Megan Ryerson, UPS Chair of Transportation at the University of Pennsylvania’s Weitzman School of Design. Dr. Ryerson joins us to talk about her research on cognitive workload, measuring the stress of cyclists at intersections. We also chat about transportation during the pandemic, the uneven power dynamics in traffic safety


Mondays 96: Find Your Solarpunk City

September 14, 2021

This week Tracy McMillan joins the show to talk about engineering climate change preparedness in New Orleans, Solarpunk cities, making Lego budget movies, and early Robert Putnam’s thoughts on Italian social capital. We also chat a bit about Metro Twin Cities new transit pass plan and Paris’ new speed limit.


(Unedited) Podcast Transcript 350: The Built Environment Memory Hole

September 9, 2021

This week we’re joined by Tufts Professor Justin Hollander. Justin chats with us about a wide range of topics including VMT Taxes, using eye tracking software to measure the impacts of the built environment on people’s mind, and he reacts to the most recent census release. For a full unedited transcript see below the fold.


(Unedited) Podcast Transcript 349: Active Transportation Parades

September 1, 2021

This week we’re joined by new Rail~Volution CEO Tamar Shapiro. We chat about her previous work in transportation and city planning at orgs like NUMO and The Governor’s Institute, how to measure transportation success, and the transportation parades before German soccer games. For the audio of this show, check out the archive at Streetsblog USA.


(Unedited) Podcast Transcript 348: New Mobilities with Todd Litman

August 25, 2021

This week we’re joined by Todd Litman, Executive Director of the Victoria Transport Policy Institute. Todd discusses his book New Mobilities: Smart Planning for Emerging Transportation Technologies. We reframe the transportation investments we make, talk about sharing information, and discuss why air taxis might not be the future. You can find the episode audio at


Mondays 95: Connecting the Dots

August 23, 2021

This week on the Mondays show, we chat about a number of different big articles from the last few weeks including TXDOT’s freeway expansions, using the Commerce Clause to rethink zoning, working from home and more! I’m Han Solo this week but I’ve pulled together a couple of the recent newsletter intros as well.


(Unedited) Podcast Transcript 347: The Feminist City

August 18, 2021

This week we’re joined by Professor Leslie Kern to talk about her book Feminist City.  We talk about the need to make more spaces for non-traditional relationships, feminist geography and intersectionality, and how care work taxes personal transportation budgets. You can find audio for all of our shows at Streetsblog USA.


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