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Monday’s Flashback: More Than Just a Box

October 28, 2024

We’re going back in time to Episode 144 to chat with Matthew Heins about his book The Globalization of American Infrastructure: The Shipping Container and Freight Transportation. We’ve done a lot of fun shows and I had forgotten about this one until I was looking back trying to think of a good oldie to share


(Unedited) Podcast Transcript 505: Urgency and Vision Zero

October 23, 2024

This week we’re joined by Leah Shahum, Executive Director of the Vision Zero Network. We chat about why it’s so hard to make change, the implicit biases around designing for automobiles and the World Day of Remembrance for Road Traffic Victims coming up on November 17th. You can listen to this episode at Streetsblog USA


(Unedited) Podcast Transcript 504: Simpler Payment Systems for Agencies and Riders

This week on the Talking Headways podcast we’re joined by Gillian Gillett of CalITP and Dan Baker, of the Connecticut Department of Transportation to discuss how agencies can create simpler payment and travel experiences for transit riders.  We chat about the Connecticut Integrated Mobility Project, building payment system capacity and merchant services for smaller transit


The Overhead Wire Daily: Universal Poverty Reduction

October 15, 2024

A few discussions today about basic income in Oregon and St. Louis. St. Louis restarted a program that provides low income families $500 a month to help cover household bills but was stopped after a judge suspended the program from using public funds. The program has picked back up with donations from a private funder.


Mondays 160: The Long & Winding Road with Wes Marshall

October 14, 2024

This week on Mondays Wes Marshall is back! We chat about his trip to Bogota Columbia, the connections between biological structure and the built environment, and of course we discuss the news from last week including climate migration, high speed rail, roundabouts, and healthy urbanism. Check out below for the show notes including links to


(Unedited) Podcast Transcript 503: The Architecture of Urbanity

October 9, 2024

This week on Talking Headways, we’re joined by architect Vishaan Chakrabarti to talk about his book The Architecture of Urbanity: Designing for Nature, Culture, and Joy. We discuss the goldilocks density, defining urbanity, the ennui of young architects, and much much more! How to Make Room for 1M New Yorkers – NYT | Vishaan Chakrabarti in


The Overhead Wire Daily: To Mexico Under Wires

There’s an interesting confluence of events that has emerged around passenger rail in Texas and Mexico over the last year. Mexico’s previous president Andrés Manuel López Obrador had built around 900 miles of passenger rail and that policy of expansion is something that the new president, Claudia Scheinbaum wishes to continue, however more aligned with




The Overhead Wire Daily: The Sprawl

October 1, 2024

I think there have been a lot of people that are optimistic about the potential for climate havens though many of the items we’ve shared here do have a healthy dose of skepticism. But after Hurricane Helene shot through Florida, Georgia, and North Carolina and left tragedy and floodwaters in its wake this past weekend,


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