Talking Headways: A Streetsblog Podcast – Details, episodes & analysis

This week we're joined by Corrigan Salerno of Transportation For America. We discuss three transportation principles for a better federal transportation bill, how to create better reporting data for MPOs, and better bus manufacturing.

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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:

Houston signal timing off - Rice Thresher

Whitmire thinks he knows - New York Times

Sleep impacted by commutes - SciTechDaily

Lifting the smog in Santiago - Guardian

Raleigh BRT contracting - News and Observer

Phoenix has no water for sprawl - High Country News

Crypto noise - The Texas Tribune

Caltrain puts energy in the grid - Metro Magazine

China's lower tier cities and retail - Campaign 

The retail hits different - The Overhead Wire

Everything SB79 - Arbitrary Lines

Urban hoofprints - University of Michigan

Highway repair better than expansion - SSTI

US dangerous car standards - Transport and Environment

Land trust affortability - Realtor.com

Waymo and accepting death - Futurism

New census data - Niskanen Center

Secret to Norway's EV success - Energy.digital

China EVs off five year plan - Reuters

Bonus Items

New vehicles top $50K - CNBC

How Vancouver's Translink escaped death spiral - Bloomberg CityLab

Bike sharing boon - Cities Today

Smart phone data and trips - TechExplore

Milwaukee tows reckless drivers - Urban Milwaukee

St. Louis green infrastructure - Reasons to be Cheerful

Stone buildings reduce emissions - BBC

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This week we're joined once again by Sam Sargent of VTA for part 2 of a conversation about transit agencies and special projects and programs. Sam chats with us about Austin's light rail plans, Caltrain electrification and moving diesels to Peru, and gives some thoughts on visionary transit leadership such as Randy Clarke at WMATA.

YouTube video of Caltrain heading out on the boat.

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This week on Talking Headways we're joined by Adriana Rizzo of Californians for Electric Rail. We chat about freight and warehousing growth in California's Inland Empire, the benefits of train electrification and a new California CEQA exemption push for overhead wires, and why hydrogen trains are getting more attention.

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This week on the Mondays show, we're Han Solo but have a lot of interesting items about shorter work weeks, children's brains and the impact of traffic noise, overbuilt retail, and highway expansion and climate change.  

Below are the links and show notes:

News Items

Supreme court overturns Chevron - Grist

Supreme court on homeless - Governing

Traffic and children's brains - BBC Future

Retail vacancies - Slate

Highway expansion and climate - LA Times

Colorado creating tenant value - Shelterforce

Four day work week - Barcelona Metropolis

VMT Place Types - CTOD

Bonus Items

Children's play and climate change - Houstonia Magazine

Stable housing for kids - NPR

NJ Transit funding - NorthJersey.com

Listener Questions + Comments

SBA Small Business resilience - SBA

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On this fourth of July special replay of Talking Headways we're going back to Episode 382 with Alix Gould-Werth and Alex Murphy discussing their work on transportation insecurity.  Anna Zivarts mentioned this work in her book and recently on the podcast and I think it's really important to share it again.  Hope everyone has a great holiday and we'll see you with a new episode next week.

This week, Alix Gould-Werth of the Washington Center for Equitable Growth, and Alex Murphy, assistant professor of sociology at the University of Michigan, talk about their transportation security index.

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This week on Talking Headways we're chatting with Tracy Hadden Loh of the Brookings Institute about impacts of the pandemic on downtowns, activity centers, and transit usage. We chat about creating activity center cluster maps and a recent report entitled Building Better on Philadelphia.

Articles of note from the discussion:

Mapping America's Activity Centers - Brookings

Ensuring the intertwined post-pandemic recoveries of downtowns and transit systems - Brookings

Building Better - Brookings

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We're Han Solo this week on Mondays at The Overhead Wire but that doesn't stop us from covering a lot of ground from the last several weeks. We chat about how climate change could impact infrastructure building, the death of Houston's University Line, and Boston's commuter rail ridership success compared to before the pandemic. We cover a lot more but listen in to find out!

Below are links to the items we discussed on today's show!

Banks realize climate risk - Wired Magazine

Risk of property insurance increase - Moving Day

Talking Headways Podcast - In a Bad State

Metro shelves University Corridor - Houston Public Media

Mexico city running under water - New York Times

Bogota water restrictions - Bloomberg CityLab

Boston commuter rail comeback - Route Fifty

Small future of housing - Fast Company

Cities come alive after hours - Washington Post

Medical insurer pledges for housing - Yahoo News

Denmark's fix for mortgage rate jumps - Business Insider

Colorado's new approach to highways - New York Times

Wyoming road failure opens housing discussion - Whitehall Ledger

Bonus Items

Health impacts of station areas - MedicalXpress

Put lazy money to work - Governing

Curbing costs from "betterments" - The Urbanist

Bike lanes reduce traffic speeds - Rutgers

Homeless Angelino takes over previous house - Los Angeles Times

Homeowners want prices to go up - The American Prospect

A conditional contract - Equipment World

$100K for every new Canadian home - Toronto Star

Connecting North and South Stations - Boston Globe

Deep sea mining not necessary - Frontier Group

Self driving, but not at dusk or dawn - Australian Broadcasting News

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This week on Talking Headways I'm joined by SPUR's Laura Tolkoff to interview Anna Zivarts about her new book: When Driving Is Not an Option: Steering Away from Car Dependency.  We chat about non-drivers, car seats, and the week without driving.  

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This week we're joined by Wes Marshall, Civil Engineering Professor at the University of Colorado at Denver to talk about his book Killed by a Traffic Engineer: Shattering the Delusion that Science Underlies our Transportation System. We chat about writing process, the ideas of risk and exposure, and what he learned from pouring over old transportation engineering journals.

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