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

I didn’t mention this yesterday perhaps because I was still in shock, but the tragedy on the Guadalupe River continues to sit heavy in my mind. Most summers when I was in middle and high school I went to a summer camp somewhere in Texas with my Boy Scout troop. We went to Possum Kingdom

When I was younger I walked to school starting in third grade in California, then after I moved to Texas I biked around the neighborhood and went to the pool in the summer with my friends by ourselves. One of my favorite things was riding to the baseball card shop, just a 15 minute bike

This week we’re Han Solo again, but we discuss lead pollution and serial killers, PM 1 micro-pollution,  and how ICE raids are reducing transit ridership in Los Angeles. Below is a full linked article list: Main Items ICE raids lead to low LA ridership – LA Times Tinier particles data finally collected – Washington University

This week we’re joined by Madeline Brozen of the UCLA Lewis Center for Regional Policy Studies. We talk about universal basic mobility and research her team has done on the LA Mobility Wallet Pilot Program. Listen to this episode at Streetsblog USA or find it in our hosting archive. Below is a full unedited transcript

I get questions from time to time about how we pull together so many news items each day. My process includes RSS feeds through Feedly collected over the last 15 years or so and key word searches in Google News as well as social media. All in all I skim 1,500 news items every day.

In Florida, the State DOT is requiring all new BRT projects to hit 6,000 riders if they are going to take a dedicated lane. It also means existing bus lines could lose their lanes unless they get higher ridership. It’s just another example of state pre-emption going after active transportation facilities and complete streets for

Last week’s Talking Headways podcast featured Chris Burdik’s book Clamor which discusses sound and noise in detail and I wanted to bring it back up today not really as a counter to the Washington Post item on electric vehicle generated sounds but as a reminder that there should be more considered of the urban soundscape

This week we’re joined by Ilana Preuss of Recast City to talk about small scale manufacturing in cities. We discuss the commercial side of economic development, the types of jobs we are creating, and how to build community wealth in left behind places. We also talk about hot planning topics such as jobs housing balance,

Has everyone seen the chart below? I was reminded of this chart which makes the rounds on social media every now and again when people argue which generation is the greatest or why certain generations seem like they make decisions other generations don’t like, mostly piling on Baby Boomers but also Generation X. I’m a