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Mondays 76: Future Federal Policy

December 1, 2020

This week on the Mondays show we’re back to our election night YouTube show chatting with our friends about federal transportation policy! We’re also joined by our co-hosts Chrissy Mancini Nichols and Jerome Horne! Hope you enjoy it.  Click below the fold to listen.


(Unedited) Podcast Transcript 311: The Energy Efficiency Megatrend

November 19, 2020

This week we’re joined by Roger Duncan to talk about his new book with Co-Author Michael Webber called The Future of Transportation, Buildings, and Power.  We chat about buildings can get to net zero energy, the changing structure of public utilities, and the energy efficiency megatrend. Below is a full unedited transcript:


Mondays 75: Lessons from the Field

November 17, 2020
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Again we’re hanging out with our friends from election night!  That’s right, we’re sharing some of our election night shenanigans from the live stream we did on YouTube.  You can still find the original 7 hour video there to see everyone’s backgrounds and setups but we’re cutting it down here into some more bite size



Podcast Transcript 307: The Ghost Road

November 9, 2020

This week we’re chatting with Anthony Townsend about his book Ghost Road: Beyond The Driverless Car.  We talk about the potential scary future financialization of transportation could create, how the pandemic has shot delivery automation into the future, and what the potential future of self driving vehicles could mean for urban form.


Podcast Transcript 306: Delivering Goods Autonomously

November 8, 2020

This week, we’re joined by Matthew Lipka, head of policy at Nuro. We chat about how autonomous delivery can help get people goods they need, the difference between transporting goods and people, and whether people can still pick their own produce. This podcast originally appeared at Streetsblog USA and a full transcript below.


Podcast Transcript 302: ‘Right of Way’ with Angie Schmitt

This week, we’re chatting with Angie Schmitt about her new book “Right of Way: Race, Class, and the Silent Epidemic of Pedestrian Deaths in America” (Island Press). Schmitt, the former editor of Streetsblog USA, talks with us about why she wrote the book and what she hopes folks can take away from it. This episode


Podcast Transcript 301: Bringing Back the Carpool

This week we’re chatting with Dani Simons, head of Public Sector Partnerships at Waze. Simons chats with us about Waze’s focus on carpooling, how the company uses data to support its users, and her impressions of other country’s transportation progress. This episode originally appeared at Streetsblog USA and a full transcript is below.


Podcast Transcript 300: Town Planning in Practice

This is episode 300!!  I can’t believe we made it this far! Thanks to Streetsblog for posting these shows since 2013. To celebrate, we’re sharing chapter one of our recently released audiobook “Town Planning in Practice” by Raymond Unwin. This classic from 1909 was one of the first to discuss town planning and urban design


Podcast Transcript 299: Transit in the Pandemic

This episode, we’re chatting with David Huffaker, Chief Development Officer for the Port Authority of Allegheny County in the Pittsburgh region. David chats with us about transit operation’s during the pandemic emergency planning, the agency’s equity index and the future of streets. First shared at Streetsblog USA, for a full transcript click below the fold.


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