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

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