Yesterday we posted an item from NextCity that compared smart phone dependence to car dependence. The author believes we are moving down a parallel road where we are going to make people dependent on phones the way we are dependent on cars. At this moment in time, we require people to have them in order

This week on Mondays at The Overhead Wire we’re joined by James Llamas, now at Nelson Nygaard, to chat about a number of different items including Vietnam’s move to ban gas powered motorbikes in central Hanoi, the importance of walking to your health, racing the 8 bus in Seattle, Brightline’s death toll, and the 8D

This week on the Talking Headways podcast we’re joined by Mark Kabbash, founder of The Dandy Horse. He chats with us about a new system for measuring and verifying bike commuting to obtain carbon avoidance credits. We chat about how the system works and the funding it could generate. Find out more about Mark’s work

I’ve been working through an idea as I work on a podcast episode about Kingwood, the neighborhood outside of Houston (since annexed by the city) where I grew up. The idea is that during the 1970s we could have chosen another direction on transportation as the Netherlands did. We had a prototype but didn’t act

This week we’re joined once again by professor Karel Martens of Technion University. We learn about how transportation engineering is good at finding problems but not solving them, and a new tool to determine the success of transportation systems. Fair Transport Lab Website A scale for describing people’s mobility status – Findings Press Listen to

This week on the Talking Headways podcast we’re joined by Oxford Ohio City Councilor and Miami of Ohio geography professor, David Prytherch. We chat about his new book Reclaiming the Road: Mobility Justice beyond Complete Streets. We chat about how pandemic open street experiments were rediscovering original uses, the cognitive benefits of experiencing car free

One of my favorite articles of all time that I’ve posted here before is from Dr. Mindy Fullilove. An excerpt from her book Main Street in Non-Profit Quarterly from 2022 is one of the few bookmarks I keep in my browser. What she says always struck me in that the places we live and the

This week we’re Han Solo but we’ve got some great items to discuss with you all. We talk about how Salt Lake lost its street design, how Charlottesville lost its zoning code, and the importance of transit to the justice system. Below the fold are the show notes:

This week on the Talking Headways podcast we’re joined by Adie Tomer of Brookings to discuss a paper he and his team wrote about the idea of regional block grants. He discusses the local subsidies going to state DOTs and how more local funding could mean more regional collaboration on infrastructure. To listen to this

Who knew the discussion about free transit was so contentious? Well, we all kinda did because it’s been a debate for the last decade in our specific policy circles. But with the election of Zohran Mamdani to be the NYC mayoral candidate for the democrats, the debate has gone off the charts. Friend of the