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This week on the Talking Headways podcast we’re chatting with Dallas Developer, DART Board Member, and urban designer Patrick Kennedy about his recent publication, An Atlas of Intercity Highway Impacts (Available Here). We discuss the tax base removed from cities by highways, what we could have done for cities with federal transportation funding, and the
This week we’re finally doing it! We’re going to Kingwood Texas and talking about the greenbelt trail system I’ve been telling everyone about for years. This is a storytelling episode, featuring guests John Walsh, Jerry Lunow, and Bill Neuhaus so I hope folks enjoy hearing about NASA, timber companies, bike trails, and Houston’s bayous. But
New York Mayor Mamdani has announced his support of the Delivery Protection Act which would require companies like Amazon to hire delivery workers directly instead of contracting with companies to do it for them. I had heard of this recently when we had Benjamin Fong on the podcast to talk about his work mapping Amazon
