I know that everyone is talking about the mayoral race in New York City and I’ll get to that in a second, but I do also want to marvel over what has happened in the last few weeks pertaining to transit and governance as well. On Halloween, the Illinois legislature sent a transportation reform and

Note: Apple podcasts users may not see the last three podcasts in our feed as we’re having technical difficulties.  Please use the Libsyn or other feeds to listen to the show if you aren’t getting it.  We apologize for the inconvenience. This week on the Talking Headways podcast we’re joined by Corrigan Salerno of Transportation

This week on Mondays at The Overhead Wire we chat about signal timing tinkering in Houston, the impact of commute times on sleep disorders, Phoenix’s lack of water for sprawl, and how many times Raleigh had to bid for contractors to build bus rapid transit. Below are the show notes:

This week we’re back live for another show from Manny’s in the Mission featuring Streetsblog SF editor Roger Rudick interviewing California High Speed Rail Authority CEO Ian Choudri. They chat about reducing costs, systems in other countries, and take questions from the audience. You can listen to this episode first at Streetsblog USA, or find

This week Sarah Goodyear and Doug Gordon of the War on Cars podcast join the show to talk about their new book: Life After Cars – Freeing Ourselves from the Tyranny of the Automobile. We discuss opposing views, Turtle Jesus, and potential offramps towards car free cities. Listen to this episode first at Streetsblog USA

I’ve been thinking more about the trip to China and especially the high speed rail of it all. I’m also about to dive into a new book I was able to get while I was there published by the Chinese State Railway but wanted to think a bit more on what I wanted to bring

This week on Talking Headways we’re flashing back to exactly ten years ago to Episode 78 with Dr. Kevin Gurney, now at Northern Arizona University. We chat about measuring emissions at the street, block, and neighborhood level and the data that enables it. I wanted to flash back to this one this week because I

The second tier Chinese cities I’ve visited are very different from mid-sized metros in the United States. Obviously with so much more population that’s going to be true, but especially in terms of things like retail. I saw a number of smaller cities and villages from the train, but my experience with the larger second-tier

This week on the Talking Headways podcast we’re joined by Ben Donsky of Agora Partners to discuss City Walk BHAM in Birmingham Alabama, a public space project that connects two sides of the city separated by a highway. We chat about positive public space, doing something instead of nothing, and what it takes to make

There are many important parts of the intersection between public health and planning but one I haven’t seen discussed much is sleep. People have all kinds of different sleeping patterns but society generally caters to the early birds over the night owls. I’m not bitter. Scientists in Japan now have found a way sleep is