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(Unedited) Podcast Transcript 318: Open Source Electric Bus

January 27, 2021

This week we’re joined by Erica Eggleton, a PhD Candidate at the University of Washington to chat about her work on Route Dynamics, an open source program that estimates the energy demand for electric bus routes run by King County Metro. Below is a full (unedited for the moment) transcript:


Mondays 80: Addicted to Linked-In

January 26, 2021

This week on the Mondays show Dawn Miller, VP for Policy and Partnerships at Coord and Chrissy Mancini Nichols join the show. We chat about Mayor Pete’s Senate hearing, Sacramento’s move away from single family zoning, and Dallas’ new mobility plan. We also talk a bit about DOT political appointments and Bernie’s Wild Ride.


(Unedited) Podcast Transcript 317: Transportation and Law Part 2

January 20, 2021

This week we’re headed back to the Iowa Law Review’s Symposium The Future of Law and Transportation. In Part 2 of this series, Professor Jonathan Levine moderates a panel of four including Professor David Prytherch, Professor Jamila Jefferson-Jones, Professor Tara Goddard, and Professor Vanessa Casado Perez on the topic of Rights of Way and Public


Mondays 79: The Stop Sign Line

January 19, 2021

This week Tracy McMillan joins the show to chat about what a Biden Administration can do for localities, climate change in the Great Lakes, Paris’ participatory budget, and what the commute means to everyone. After the jump check out the show links:


(Unedited) Podcast Transcript 316: Intro to the City

January 13, 2021

This week we’re joined by Professor Sean Benesh to talk about his new book Intro to the City. We chat about his love of Pre-Colombian cities, how being an ordained pastor connects to his urban thinking, and some thoughts about opening your mind when it comes to place. Below is a full unedited transcript of


(Unedited) Podcast Transcript 315: The Answer is the Arterial

January 6, 2021

This week we’re going back to the 2020 Rail~Volution conference where Peter Calthorpe gave the keynote speech with Allison Brooks of the Bay Area Regional Collaborative. They discuss the next generation of TOD and housing on major arterials. Below is the full unedited transcript for this episode:


Mondays 78: Mayor Pete

December 21, 2020

This week Chrissy Mancini Nichols and Jerome Horne join the show to talk about the nomination of former South Bend Indiana Mayor Pete Buttigieg to the post of Transportation Secretary. That’s it, that’s the topic on this end of the year Mondays at The Overhead Wire.


(Unedited) Podcast Transcript 314: Infrastructure Only Limited by Our Imagination

December 16, 2020

This week we’re talking with Katy Knight, Executive Director of the Siegel Family Endowment. We chat about the endowment’s recent Infrastructure report entitled Rebuilding America: The Road Ahead which discusses a future where digital, physical, and social infrastructure connect. Katy talks with us about the importance of governance, the two way conversations we should be


(Unedited) Podcast Transcript 313: Location Does Matter

December 9, 2020

This week on the Talking Headways podcast we’re joined by Carrie Makarewicz, Associate Professor at the University of Colorado at Denver, Prentiss Dantzler, Assistant Professor at Georgia State University, and Arlie Adkins, Associate Professor at The University of Arizona to talk about their paper in Housing Policy Debate:  Another Look at Location Affordability: Understanding the


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