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This Week on the Talking Headways podcast we’re joined by Bill Fulton who has worn many hats including mayor, planning director, think tank director, publisher, professor and currently can be found writing on Substack at The Future of Where. We chat the impacts of work from home on cities, changing migration patterns and the south’s
at the University of Iowa, and Jonathan Levine, Professor of Urban and Regional Planning at the University of Michigan to talk about their paper, First Principals of Transportation Law and Policy. We talk about how to rethink transportation metrics towards accessibility, how the law has embedded mobility in transportation, and why we really travel. Hey
Leroy Marion of autoblog notes that electric vehicles which have higher torque and heavy batteries are much faster than their internal combustion counterparts and becoming more dangerous on public streets. Part of the reason is that in order to move that heavy battery quickly, larger motors are required. No one needs that much power. And as
