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Talking Headways Podcast: The Messiness of Family Travel
This week we’re joined again by Dr. Jennifer Kent, senior research fellow in Urbanism at the University of Sydney, to talk about her work on family transportation, the messiness of travel for parents,...
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Talking Headways Podcast: A Miami-Dade Voice for Bus Rapid Transit
This week on the podcast we are back at last fall's Rail~Volution conference. We chat with Miami-Dade County Commissioner Eileen Higgins about the South Dade Busway, the importance of FTA ratings in...
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Interview: What Does It Take To Start Your Own Bikeshare?
[caption id="" align="alignright" width="373"] The YoGo bikeshare team (Ronnell Elkins, far left). Photo: YoGo[/caption] Most bikeshare rides taken on U.S. soil happen in a handful of gigantic cities,...
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Talking Headways Podcast: Roadways for People
This week we’re joined by Oregon Metro Council President Lynn Peterson to talk about her book Roadways for People: Rethinking Transportation Planning and Engineering. We chat about better project...
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Talking Headways Podcast: Fixing Mobility as a Service
This week we’re joined by David Hensher, director of the Institute of Transport and Logistics Studies at the University of Sydney. David chats about the failed concept of "Mobility as a Service," which...
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How to Reframe the Narrative About Car Dependency
“Roadway safety is a shared responsibility, and people in cars and outside of cars play an equal role in keeping each other safe.” “Sprawl is good, actually, because it means people can have big,...
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Talking Headways Podcast: The Annual Prediction Show with Yonah Freemark!
This week, Yonah Freemark of the Urban Institute is back for our annual Prediction Show. This year, we chat about our predictions from last year and next year of course, but also regional rail in...
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Talking Headways Podcast: Caretakers of the Public Realm
This week we’re joined by Andrew Jones, program director for the Uptown and Downtown Oakland Community Benefits District. We chat about urban place management, how urban spaces are taken care of, and...
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How Does Toxic Masculinity Play Out On Our Roads — And How Do We Stop It?
Look up traffic fatality stats for almost any country in the world, and you’ll find that men are almost always drastically over-represented among the dead, even in countries like the Netherlands and...
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Talking Headways Podcast: The Case Against Localism
This week we’re joined by Trevor Latimer to talk about his book, Small Isn’t Beautiful: The Case Against Localism (Brookings). We chat about what localism is and how its geographically defined, as well...
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Talking Headways Podcast: Zero Emissions Delivery Zones
This week we’re joined by Hamilton Steimer of the World Resources Institute to talk about their report, Zero-emission Delivery Zones: A New Way to Cut Traffic, Air Pollution and Greenhouse Gases. We...
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How Can Sustainable Transportation Advocates Help End Poverty? An Interview...
Matthew Desmond. Photo: Barron Bixler One in nine Americans live in poverty, and millions more live somewhere between precarity and true security. A new book argues, though, that it doesn’t have to be...
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Talking Headways Podcast: E-Bikes to Freedom!
This week we’re joined by Mike Salisbury of Denver’s Office of Climate Action, Sustainability & Resiliency to talk about the city’s e-bike rebate program. That leads to a discussion of funding,...
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Talking Headways Podcast: Transport and Cities in ‘Star Wars’
May the 4th be with you! This week my good friend Jeff Munowitch of Populus is joining the show to talk about “Star Wars”! We talk about the top five transportation modes and our top five cities in a...
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Podcast: Is the Electric Car a ‘Wolf In Sheep’s Clothing’?
What is an electric car, really? Is it a godsend that could save the planet from climate catastrophe by slashing emissions in the sector that contributes the most greenhouse gases in virtually every...
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Talking Headway Podcast: Why Public Space Matters
This week, we’re joined by Setha Low to talk about her book, Why Public Space Matters. We chat about using ethnography to understand space, emotional connections, and transforming the world through...
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Talking Headways Podcast: Women Who Ride Transit
This week, we’re chatting with Meghna Khanna of LA Metro and Scarlett DeLeon of the Alliance for Community Transit LA about women who ride transit. We talk about LA Metro’s first of its kind Gender...
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The Brake: Henry Grabar on How Parking Explains the World
Buy “Paved Paradise” at a bookstore near you. Slate’s cities reporter Henry Grabar’s new book, Paved Paradise: How Parking Explains the World (Penguin Press), could have been a sleeper, aimed at...
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Talking Headways Podcast: Competing with Car Ownership
This week we’re joined by the head of Zipcar, Angelo Adams! We talk about how Zipcar gets parking spaces, how they find customers, the benefits of car sharing and how the company’s biggest competitor...
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Talking Headways Podcast: The First City on Mars
This week, we’re joined by Tufts professor Justin Hollander to talk about his new book The First City on Mars: An Urban Planner’s Guide to Settling the Red Planet. We talk about the importance of urban...
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