Talking Headways: A Streetsblog Podcast

Prediction Time! This week on part 2 of our chat with Yonah Freemark, we score our transportation predictions from last year and make new ones for 2025. We talk about the Roosevelt Subway, Transit agency bailouts, open gangway trains, and coming transit elections and extensions. 

You can find Transit Explorer through the Transport Politic. 

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This week on the Talking Headways podcast we're joined once again by transportation and housing expert Yonah Freemark. In part 1 we talk about the equitable distribution of transportation grants, potential for flex funding for transit, and our annual transit openings discussion.

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This week on Mondays at The Overhead Wire we're Han Solo.  The news continues and so do we.  We chat about productive transit subsidies, transportation flex funding, and a coming connection between trees and health!  Join us below for the show notes:

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News Items

Keys to happiness - Business Insider

Transit subsidy - Streetsblog USA

Truck insurance - Streetsblog USA

Flex funding - New York Focus

Rotterdam flood management - Guardian

Non subsidized affordable housing - CalMatters

Indian railway electrification - Energy Monitor

A mogul battles the subway - Hollywood Reporter

Alzheimers design - Guardian

Trees and health - Washington Post

Bonus Items

Bike friendly cities safe for all road users - Momentum Mag

Paris SUV Tax - Le Parisien

NYPHA bribery scandal - Motherboard

Power outages longer in poor areas - Route Fifty

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This week we?re joined by Elaine Clegg, CEO of Valley Regional Transit in Boise Idaho.  We chat about how the Boise bus system is changing, the impact of fast regional growth, energy infrastructure and favorite transportation board games.

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This week we?re joined by Dr. Kathryn Howell, Director of the National Center for Smart Growth at the University of Maryland. We talk about her daily e-bike commute, organizing around the Purple Line, the importance of eviction data, and commercial displacement.

This episode was produced in partnership with Mpact

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This week on the podcast we're Han Solo but we've got some great news and information for you including items on Beverly Hills residents being denied permits for underground pools, we've got money for transit operations in a house bill, and we're noticing the Introvert Economy is in full swing.  Come join us, we were told there would be no math in podcasting, but it turns out that's just not true.

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Main News

Transit agencies are climate agencies - Heat Map

Beverly hills permits blocked - Guardian

Federal ops funding - Smart Cities Dive

Introvert economy - Bloomberg

Environmental culture war - The Atlantic

TfL open loop - Railway Technology

Universal basic mobility - NextCity

Delivery's pollution problem - Smart Cities Dive

Insurance creeping up - Fast Company

Prevent building collapse - The Conversation

Bonus Items

Compact cities reduce emissions - ITDP

New York + pool - Dwell

Seoul climate card - ITS International

Boomer empty nesters - Redfin

Buy, don't build affordable housing - The Citizen

FEMA disaster resilience zones - Smart Cities Dive

KC free transit - KCUR

Right on red - CNN

Road diet success - WFYI Cincinnati

Barcelona sustainable journeys - Smart Cities World

Climate change potholes - BBC Future

OK City tall building - CNN

Puppies and Butterflies

Jet Lag: The Game on Youtube

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This week we?re joined by Angie Schmitt, Owner and Principal at 3MPH Planning and Consulting. We chat about changing travel behavior in cities, the impact of recent social isolation on social trust, and polarization in policy solutions.

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This week we?re joined by Beth Osborne, Vice President for Transportation and Thriving Communities at Smart Growth America.  We chat about the Greenhouse Gas Emissions Measure Rule that will make State DOTs and MPOs measure emissions on the federal highway system. We also talk about how Beth thinks we have things lining up for positive change, politics of implementing rules, and how the NTSB treats air travel and surface transportation so differently.

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This week on Mondays we're Han Solo! We've got a great set of news items for your consideration.  We talk about manufactured housing, dangerous driving, Winnipeg transit, and a Pew study about housing supply in Minneapolis with some interesting results. 

Below are links to the items we shared on the show.

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Manufactured housing - Fast Company

Auto companies paid Tesla - Frontier Group

Emissions big wins - Wired Magazine

Winnipeg master plan - The Free Press

Dangerous driving - NYT Magazine

Land use reform works - Route Fifty

Reduce speeds for climate - Policy Options Politiques

Pittsburgh innovates on stormwater - Allegheny Front

 

Bonus Items

Greyhound land - CNN

Rents and death - CNBC

Vernacular cooling - Washington Post

Medellin cooling - European Sting

Why EVs haven't taken off - Business Insider

Nashville transit plan - Governing

Sugar Taxes - NPR

Agency consolidation - SF Chronicle

Atlanta e-bike incentives - Atlanta Journal Constitution

Drinking water nanoplastics - Los Angeles Times

Walmart drone deliveries - Transport Topics

Room matching - Fox 5 San Diego

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This week we?re joined by John King, Urban Design Critic at the SF Chronicle, to talk about his book Portal: San Francisco's Ferry Building and the Reinvention of American Cities. We chat about the history of the Ferry Building in San Francisco which was one of the busiest city transportation hubs in the world in the early 1900s and how the building has evolved over time parallel to the ups and downs of cities.

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We?re back from the new year but no so back that I have enough material for a Mondays show.  So as we started doing at the end of last year, I?m going to throw in a throwback Talking Headways from time to time to go back to some episodes I found interesting and perhaps mention more than a few times during current interviews.

This episode specifically is with Clayton Nall about his book The Road to Inequality: How the Federal Highway Program Polarized America and Undermined Cities and originally was released 6 years ago in July of 2018. Clayton is now a professor at UC Santa Barbara but his book and work still ring true.

Get Clayton's book from our bookshop.org site here.

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This week we?re joined by Dr. Shima Hamidi, Assistant Professor at Johns Hopkins University to talk about the report: A National Investigation of the Impacts of Lane Width on Traffic Safety.  We chat about the data they collected for 1,100 streets, how narrowing streets can create more space for bikes and peds and how the study and determined narrower lanes are safer.

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This week is the netherweek between Christmas and New Years but we?ve got a great show for you from the podcast Transit Unplugged. In this specific episode Paul Comfort interviews WMATA General Manager Randy Clarke.

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This week we?re joined once again by Congressman Earl Blumenauer of Oregon?s 3rd District. We chat about connections between health care, food and transportation, progress on the Inflation Reduction Act and IIJA infrastructure bills, and future directions for transportation funding.

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This week on Mondays at The Overhead Wire we celebrate the end of the year with stories from Colorado on the governor's transit wishes for next year, learning about the new federal Emerging Project Agreement, Salt Lake's downtown success, and how Europe wants to ban large US trucks. Hang in there with us as we finish 2023 off right.

New Stories

Colorado governor climate links - CPR

Emerging project agreements - Philadelphia Citizen

Bogota BRT politics - New York Times

Salt Lake City's booming downtown - Governing

Jakarta's sinking solution - Boomberg CityLab

US trucks in Europe - Transport & Environment

Colfax BRT land use - Denver Urbanism

Two schemes for fighting poverty - Governing

Deadly indoor air pollution - Salon

Bonus Items

Seattle climate goals don't match bike network - Urbanist

Free rides reduce emissions - CPR

Sports teams entertainment districts - Guardian

Congestion pricing - Bloomberg CityLab

Housing and death certificates - Route Fifty

MAAS tied to carbon credits - City Fix

Nighttime traffic deaths - New York Times

Canada pre-designed housing - Bloomberg CityLab

SoCal commute burden - Los Angeles Times

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This week we?re at the 2023 Mpact conference closing plenary in Phoenix Arizona. Assistant Secretary of Transportation for Transportation Policy at USDOT Christopher Coes leads a panel discussing what?s happening in central cities and how to make them thrive again.

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Karen Chapple, Ph.D., Director, School of Cities, University of  Toronto, Toronto, ON | Nichol Bordeaux, Chief Planning and Engagement Officer, Utah Transit Authority, Salt Lake City, UT | Dee Brewer, Executive Director, Downtown Alliance, Salt Lake City, UT | Emeke Moneme, President, Capitol Riverfront, Washington, DC | Ryan Johnson, Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer, Culdesac, Tempe, AZ

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This week on our Monday Replay, German Marshall Fund fellow Eric Eidlin is the host for two French High Speed Rail experts; Stephan de Fay, the Executive Director of Bordeaux Euratlantique, the public agency that is overseeing the redevelopment of Bordeaux?s main train station to accommodate several new high speed rail lines by 2020 and Etienne Tricaud, President and CEO of AREP, the French Railway?s architecture office. 

Together they discuss the geography of France and its high speed rail network, the station areas as not just transportation projects but major urban projects, the experts and powers available to public agencies working on station area planning in France, the design of the station area versus that of the district as a whole, and finally the importance of having an overall vision for integrating transportation and land use in the station district.

In the second half of the episode, Eric, Stephan, and Etienne chat about how large projects in France are treated as projects of national significance and the expectations on these projects. There?s also a discussion of the Paris region?s over 1,483 mayors and the way the Grand Paris project has created better governance structures.  Finally Stephan and Etienne discuss their perceptions of Diridon station and how we can create value with these opportunities.

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This week we?re at the Mpact conference in Phoenix and joined by Ron Brooks of Accessible Avenue. We chat about service animal etiquette, the negotiation and implementation of ADA, and including people with disabilities in the equity conversation.

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This week on Mondays at The Overhead Wire we have a wide ranging news share on America's weird 30 year mortgage, how emissions would have fallen more if it weren't for SUVs, and the Mayo Clinic's idea for 'health neighborhoods'. 

News Items

Emissions without SUVs - Guardian

Overcoming urban car dependence - LSE Cities

30 year mortgages - NY Times

Mayo's health neighborhoods - MPR News

Heatherwick health street - ArchDaily

Charlotte zoning reform - Assembly NC

A land value tax - New York Times

Bonus Items

NASA warns of El Nino - Newsweek

Paris Mayor sets sights on SUV parking - BBC

Fewer Americans walking - Marketplace

Rule finalized on DOT emissions data collection - Route Fifty

Costs to Washington DOT for salmon - Seattle Times

Place to work, but not place to live - Washington Post

San Diego's wild ADU laws - CalMatters

Houston transportation leaders getting more diverse - Houston Chronicle

Library lends bike share memberships - Yale Climate Connections

Justice 40 in the IRA - The Verge

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This week we?re at the Mpact conference in Phoenix Arizona and joined by Tom Brennan, Director of Business Strategy at Nelson Nygaard. We talk about the sexy world of bus speed and reliability,  how agency can invest for effectiveness, and future proofing routes for the long term.

Some amazing resources on the subject Tom sent us before the show include design toolkits from Boston and Vancouver BC's bus speed report.

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Bonus Episode! This week on Talking Headways we?re featuring an episode of Booked on Planning, a podcast where Stephanie Rouse and Jennifer Hiatt dive deep into books for the Nebraska Chapter of the APA. This time they are joined by Alex Kreiger, author of City on a Hill.

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This week on Talking Headways we?re joined by author Ben Goldfarb to talk about his book, Crossings: How Road Ecology is Shaping the Future of Our Planet. We discuss how roads cut off ecosystems, wildlife crossings, and animal mobility at different scales.

You can get the book from The Overhead Wire book club at Bookshop.org

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This week on Mondays at The Overhead Wire, we're Han Solo. But that doesn't preclude us from sharing the news from the last few weeks including items on work from home serendipity, weaponizing environmental law, and the suspension of Cruise self driving vehicles. Listen in below and check out the show notes below the fold.

Show Notes

Main Items

City serendipity - New York Times

Weaponizing environmental law - Governing

DMV revokes Cruise license - Motherboard

Stanford can't stop people driving alone - Almanac

Curb management - CNN

Norway looks away from EVs - Vox

Halifax waterfront - Happy Cities

Highway cap pollution - CPR

Wawa design - Slate

Austin parking minimums - Texas Tribune

Essen green city - BBC Travel

Can seawalls save us? New Yorker

Bonus Items

Heart rate data for cycling - Global Cycling Network

Wendy's redesign for delivery era - Fast Company

Black workers commute longer - Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia

Pollution rule - Grist

ADUs for mortgages - HUD

Desert city piping water from Mexico - Guardian

$6.6B subway - New York Post

Nightmare hurricanes - Washington Post

CTC chair ok with highway widening - Streetsblog CA

LA homeless real estate agent - NPR

Moving the redwoods - NYT Magazine

Cars cancelling energy savings - KPBS

Boulder deconstructs hospital - Colorado Sun

Builder's Remedy unintended consequence - San Jose Mercury News

EPA reviews salmon killing tire chemical - Transport Topics

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This week we?re joined by Danielle Arigoni, Managing Director for Policy and Solutions at The National Housing Trust.  We chat about Danielle?s new book Climate Resilience for an Aging Nation as well as housing policy that benefits everyone.

You can find Danielle's book at our Bookshop Affiliate site or at Island Press.

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This week we?re joined by transit expert and former general manager for three transit systems Ron Kilcoyne. Ron joins us to talk about the importance of running frequent transit service in order to attract riders and how agencies in the Bay Area are underserving the population.

Find Ron's Streetsblog SF piece here and the report he did for Seamless Bay Area. If you want to message Ron, you can do so at his email address [email protected]. 

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This week we're chatting with professor Des Fitzgerald about his new book The Living City: Why Cities Don't Need to Be Green to Be Great. We chat about what trees mean to people, the proliferation of moguls that want to build new cities, and the idea of what makes the good city.

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This week we?re joined by Chris Fabian of Resource X to talk about his work on priority based budgeting. We discuss how cities create budgets that reflect their policy goals and what it takes to find resources for big ideas.

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This week on the Mondays show we're Han Solo! But that doesn't stop us from sharing a lot of news!  The Prime Minister of England has pulled the plug on high speed rail, what the pandemic drop in traffic means for access, designing for autism and much much more!

News Items

Designing for autism - Metropolis Magazine

Pandemic increases in access - University of Minnesota

Starter cars disappearing - Discourse Magazine

Utilities not fans of solar - Mother Jones

Caltrans official silenced - Politico | LA Times

Cities with fastest and slowest traffic - Time Magazine

Abandoned lands restoring biodiversity - Yale e360

Bonus Items

Mold with floods - Grist

Rishi kills HSR - Guardian

Redfin leaves National Association of Realtors - New York Times

Leaving HGAC could cost Houston - Houston Public Media

Noise cameras - The Guardian

Singapore license costs - CNN

UK Satellites map heat - BBC

BART subway to cost $12B - Bloomberg CityLab

Letting people drink on the street - Governing

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This week we?re joined by Abby Thorne-Lyman, Former Director of Real Estate at BART, to talk about BART?s development projects and priorities, and the importance of real estate to BART?s future. 

Today's podcast was produced in partnership with Mpact. Learn more about the work they do and annual conference at http://mpactmobility.org

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This week we?re joined by Kari Watkins  and Dave Ederer to talk about their paper The Safe Systems Pyramid: A New Framework for Traffic Safety. We talk about the connections between transportation and public health and how it allows us to think differently about transportation safety.

Find David's full dissertation on Georgia Tech's website.

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This week on the show we catch up on some of the news from the last month and go over what's coming up on the Talking Headways podcast. We talk about post-pandemic transportation, sea level rise impacts on shipping and drinking water, and the world's smallest skyscraper. 

Show Note Links Below

SF NIMBYs watch out - SF Chronicle

Bike tunnel - Bloomberg CityLab

Colorado rail service - Governing

World's smallest skyscraper - City Monitor

Copenhagen sponge city - Spiegel International

Rethinking transport - Brookings

Bonus Items

Commute is employee wish - Globe Street

Transit agencies fewer commuters - Governing

Hybrid work is messy - Newsweek

Stuttgart 21 dig over - Railtech

Stuttgart 21 - DB

Panama Canal shipping stuck - NBC News

Low Mississippi less shipping - USA Today

Mississippi saltwater incursion - New York Times

Medicaid for housing - Health Affairs

Grocery delivery not less driving - Streetsblog USA

Food trucks are hot - Grist

City pollution seen on satellite - Houston Public Media

Vienna transit parcel delivery - Eltis

Japan birth rate - LA Times

Housing is a labor issue - Hamilton Nolan

Accessible design standards - Streetsblog USA

Conspiracy theory pushback - Politico

Electric Vehicle Outlook - Bloomberg 

LA Metro billboards - Government Technology

Week without driving - Bloomberg CityLab

Belgium insurance studies air pollution - Guardian

EV charging stations flaw for transition - Slate

Truck stops want EV time - Jalopnik

Charger oriented development - Smart Growth America

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This week we?re joined by Bob Searns to talk about his book Beyond Greenways: The Next Step for City Trails and Walking Routes. We talk about grand ideas for walking trails that circle whole regions and more local routes that make up a new mode of green infrastructure in cities.

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This week we?re joined by Phoenix community builder Tim Sprague. We chat about supporting local culture through development projects and the importance of sustainable development and transportation.

Today's podcast was produced in partnership with Mpact. To learn more about the annual conference, visit http://mpactmobility.org

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This week on Mondays at The Overhead Wire we're joined by Carter Lavin to talk about the city dreams of tech moguls, government capacity, public housing that doesn't want to be called that, designing delivery trucks and much much more!

Show notes:

Silicon valley elites want a new city - Fortune via Bloomberg

Importance of state capacity - The American Prospect

Rise of Ecovillages - Noema Magazine

Don't call it public housing - New York Times

A better delivery truck - Fast Company

Depaving cities - Nexus Media News

Puppies and Butterflies

French town has road crossing signs for house cats - Mayor.eu

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This week we?re joined by Zack Subin of the Terner Center for Housing Innovation and Ben Holland of the Rocky Mountain Institute. Ben and Zack join us to talk about their report Urban Land Use Reform on the importance of land use in reducing travel and emissions.

Research Notes:

Review of recent state land use legislation from Mercatus, including highlighting the WA package, and earlier this year from Terner Review of recent trends in VMT/capita by state: WA at head of the pack Jenny Schuetz' Brookings blog summary of her book, which includes a discussion of housing reforms across levels of government and political economy considerations More discussion of the rationale for state governments to lead in this Niskanen Center report Thea Riofrancos et al and UC Davis report on lithium requirements to decarbonize US transportation Shane Phillips' paper on the case for broad upzoning, summarized by Todd Litman in Planetizen Coolclimate CA planning scenarios from Chris Jones's team, with linked paper, and 2022 update featured in the NY Times.

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This week we?re sharing a panel discussion on how California High Speed Rail could be sped up. Hosted by Rodger Rudick of Streetsblog SF, Climate Advocate Carter Lavin, Eric Eidlin, Station Planning Manager for the City of San Jose, and Boris Lipkin of the California High Speed Rail Authority discuss what it would take to get the project done faster and all the potential benefits.

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This week on Mondays we're joined by Kevin DeGood of The Center for American Progress to talk about a study by NCDOT and NC State on Connected Autonomous Vehicles at Intersections.  This leads into a discussion about policy related to autonomous vehicles and saturation. It's not our usual Mondays news format but it's a shorter show and gets right to the point!

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This week we?re joined by Dr. Robert Blaine of the National League of Cities. We talk about their work helping smaller cities apply for federal infrastructure grants through a bootcamp program and chat about local grant writing capacity and what success looks like.

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This week we?re joined by Yvonne Yeung to talk about ULI?s recent report, Building 15 Minute Communities: a Leadership Guide. We chat about how the guide can help create good development that reduces the need to drive, and supports our climate emissions reduction goals.

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This week Ryan Wozniak joins the podcast to talk about Phoenix transportation policy, why people are moving to the sunbelt, truth in car advertising, Philly's plans for its own high line and much more!

News Items

LA giving out ADU plans - Dwell Magazine

More Californians living in cars - The Atlantic

Truth in car ads - Policy Options Politiques

Moving to the sunbelt - The Atlantic

Philly's high line - Philadelphia Inquirer

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This week we?re listening in to PART 2 of a one to one conversation between David Longoria of LISC in Phoenix and Ryan Winkle of RAIL CDC. They discuss the community work they are doing in Mesa along the light rail line and how they respond to unforeseen outcomes.

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This week we?re listening in to PART 1 of a one to one conversation between David Longoria of LISC in Phoenix and Ryan Winkle of RAIL CDC. They discuss the community work they are doing in Mesa along the light rail line and the impact their work has on local businesses.

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This week on Mondays we're joined by Chrissy Mancini Nichols to talk about a whole host of transportation topics including Lyft's potential sale of its bike share business, how housing affects dating, congestion pricing politics and more!

Below are links to the articles we talked about on the show.

Lyft wants out of bike share - Motherboard

A Jane Austen housing auction - Guardian

New Jersey sues over congestion pricing - Streetsblog NYC

FTA says no transit money for triangle rail - News and Observer

Miyawaki method - Fair Planet

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This week we?re joined once more by Susan Crawford, author and Harvard Law Professor to talk about her new book, Charleston: Race, Water, and the Coming Storm. Susan chats with us about sea level rise, city solutions, and opportunities to rethink our responses.

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This week on Mondays at The Overhead Wire we delve into sameness around the world, climate change extremes, and Amsterdam's red light district. 

Main Links

City sameness - Dezeen

Paris gets smart on heat - Yale e360

Hurricane Ian wiped out middle class - Politico

Sewers can't handle rain - Scientific American

Biased livability rankings - The Conversation

Amsterdam's red light controversy - Time

Bonus Items

Skywells - BBC Future

Miami forgets gas tax - Governing

Spain elections impact on active transport - Reuters

Portland street response - Oregon Public Radio

House R's want to cut budgets - Washington Post

Insurance rates threaten new development - Smart Cities Dive

New Tampa transport plan - That's So Tampa

Hawaii housing plans - Civil Beat

Bike bill lawsuit - Bike Portland

Wildfire adapted communities - Sightline

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This week we?re chatting with David Wasserman of Alta Planning and Mike Flaxman of Heavy.AI about generative artificial intelligence. We chat about what generative AI is and how it is trained, and some of the ways it could be used or misused in a planning and transportation context.

Show Notes

Augmented: Planners in an Era of Generative AI - APA

Open Letter on Generative AI & Ethical Planning - APA Technology Division

Datasets for Datasheets - Cornell Arxiv

Automating Zoning Data Collection - Urban Institute

Bias in, Bias out - Yale Law Journal

Can Language Models Be Too Big? - ACM Digital Library

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This week we?re joined by Paula DiPerna to talk about her book Pricing the Priceless: The Financial Transformation to Value the Planet, Solve the Climate Crisis, and Protect Our Most Precious Assets. We chat about how nature is working for us for free and how we should value those services as well as the financial mechanisms we could use to save the planet. She also shares how she got the Vatican to pledge to go net zero and lessons from working with Jacques Cousteau.

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This week on the podcast we are solo and chatting about a lot of different topics from banning drive thrus to AI bias, to impacts of climate change. We also dive into the week of the cone here in San Francisco. 

News Items

Drive thrus banned - CNN

AI makes housing crisis worse - The Lever

Building based on old climate data - Scientific American

Climate change underground - Scientific American

Bus stops and playgrounds too hot - Vox

BIDS go in on bike lanes - Bloomberg CityLab

Cones on AVs - SFist

Proximity important in travel - Brookings

PPP caused housing inflation? - Texas Standard

Bonus Items

NY vehicle fees by weight? - Curbed

Congestion pricing forward in NY - New York Times

Air pollution increased pandemic aid - Guardian

Data on outdoor dining - Luskin School of Public Affairs

Portland pauses/stops highways - Portland Mercury

Toronto's new bike mayor - Toronto Star

People want walkable communities - NAR

Extra degree increased burn areas - El Pais

Industrial transition - Philadelphia Citizen

Weirdos revive cities - PubliCola

Hudson tunnel funded - New York Times

Second avenue subway part 2 - Bloomberg CityLab

UDOT chooses gondola - Deseret News

A bill to repair nature - New York Times

Puppies and Butterflies 

Berkeley grad flies to school - USA Today

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This week we?re joined by Mike Warren, Senior Vice President at WSP. Mike chats with us about road user charging including how the discussion has changed over the last decade and the idea of treating roads as a utility by paying for driving by the mile. We also discuss policy considerations including reducing driving and congestion, privacy considerations, and replacing existing use taxes.

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This week we're joined by Hussein Mahfouz of Transport for Cairo and Adham Kalila of Streetlight Data to talk about their new report created for NUMO, All Possible Commutes: How Micromobility and Realistic Car Travel Times Impact Accessibility Analysis. We learn about measuring car travel more accurately, how micromobility can improve accessibility, and a bit about transportation in the Cairo metro region.

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