Talking Headways: A Streetsblog Podcast

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What's Talking Headways: A Streetsblog Podcast about?

A weekly podcast about the intersection between sustainable transportation, urban planning, and economic development. Hosted by Jeff Wood of The Overhead Wire.

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Talking Headways: A Streetsblog Podcast episodes:

04.18.2024
Episode 479: Charging Up Transportation
This week we’re joined by Gabe Klein, Executive Director of the Joint Office of Energy and Transportation. We chat about the Joint Office’s white paper focused on best practices and solutions for electric vehicle charging entitled: Community Charging: Emerging Multifamily,...
04.16.2024
Episode 150: Mondays at The Overhead Wire - Housekeeping After Drought
Happy Mondays! This week on Mondays at The Overhead Wire we're Han Solo again but we have a lot to catch up on. We're going over some of the news we didn't get to when we were away in China...
04.11.2024
Episode 478: Women’s Transportation Seminar
This week we’re joined by Sara Stickler, President and CEO of WTS International. We discuss how WTS highlights women’s expertise in transportation and how they create opportunities from mentorship to leadership and education. We also chat about some of their...
04.04.2024
Episode 477: Culture Change in Cleveland
This week we’re featuring a one to one conversation between Billy Terry, Executive Director of the National Transit Institute at Rutgers University, and India Birdsong Terry, General Manager and CEO of the Greater Cleveland Regional Transit Authority. They discuss...
04.02.2024
Episode 149: Mondays at The Overhead Wire - Dispatch from China
This week on Mondays at The Overhead Wire Jeff talks about his month long trip to China. Subways, multi-use paths, urbanism and more! We chat about Chinese mall culture, great food, and a really cool station design in Shenzhen. To...
03.28.2024
Episode 476: Saving California Transit from the Fiscal Cliff
This week we’re sharing a San Francisco Planning and Urban Research (SPUR) forum on how a statewide coalition of transit advocates were able to organize a funding bridge to avert a fiscal cliff for transit operators in the state. The...
03.21.2024
Episode 475: Lessons from Quickbuild Street Projects
This week we’re joined by Heidi Simon, Director of Thriving Communities at Smart Growth America. Heidi talks about lessons learned from Complete Streets Leadership Academies as state and local officials and advocates work to create safer streets through quick...
03.14.2024
Episode 474: Thinking Differently About Vehicle Design
This week we’re joined by vehicle designer Dan Sturges to talk about his book Near to Far: A Design for a new and Equitable Transportation System. We talk about new ways of thinking about vehicle design, mobility for low...
03.07.2024
Episode 473: Public Sentiment and Public Transit
This week we’re featuring a 1 to 1 conversation between Adelee Le Grand of Intellectual Concepts and Scott Wilkinson of AlphaVu. They chat about how transit agencies can get a better handle on how riders and non-riders alike feel about...
02.29.2024
Episode 472: Streets for Skateboards
This week we’re joined by skateboard advocate Aaron Breetwor, brand manager for Comet Skateboards. Aaron chats about using skateboards for transportation, designing streets for safer skateboarding, and this last years incident at the Dolores Street hill bomb. OOO Follow us...
02.22.2024
Episode 471: Annual Prediction Show with Yonah Freemark Part 2
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...
02.15.2024
Episode 470: Annual Prediction Show with Yonah Freemark Part 1
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...
02.13.2024
Episode 148: Mondays at The Overhead Wire - Happy in Cities
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...
02.08.2024
Episode 469: On the Bus in Boise
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. *** OOO...
02.01.2024
Episode 468: Organizing and Data that Create Wins
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...
01.30.2024
Episode 147: Mondays at the Overhead Wire - No More Math Please
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,...
01.25.2024
Episode 467: Are We Taking Less Trips?
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. OOO Join...
01.18.2024
Episode 466: Making DOTs Measure Emissions
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...
01.16.2024
Episode 146: Mondays at the Overhead Wire - Into 2024
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. ...
01.11.2024
Episode 465: The San Francisco Ferry Building with John King
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...
01.09.2024
Monday Replay: Highways and Partisanship
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...
01.04.2024
Episode 464: Narrow the Lanes!
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...
12.28.2023
Transit Unplugged Holiday Special: Randy Clarke
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. OOO Follow us on...
12.21.2023
Episode 463: Congressman Earl Blumenauer
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....
12.19.2023
Episode 145: Mondays at The Overhead Wire - Finishing Up 2023
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...
12.14.2023
Episode 462: Downtown or Not Downtown
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....
12.12.2023
Monday Replay: Integrating High Speed Rail Stations and Communities
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...
12.07.2023
Episode 461: Sausage Making and the ADA
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. OOO Follow...
12.05.2023
Episode 144: Mondays at The Overhead Wire - 30 Year Mortgages are Weird
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'. ...
11.30.2023
Episode 460: Sexy World of Bus Speed and Reliability
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...
11.23.2023
Bonus Episode: Booked on Planning Featuring Alex Krieger
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...
11.16.2023
Episode 459: Crossings
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...
11.14.2023
Episode 143: Mondays at The Overhead Wire - Strictly Limiting SOVs
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...
11.09.2023
Episode 458: Older Adults and Climate Emergencies
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...
11.02.2023
Episode 457: Want Riders? Run Frequent Service
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...
10.26.2023
Episode 456: The Living City
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...
10.19.2023
Episode 455: Finding Resources to Do Big Things
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....
10.17.2023
Episode 142: Mondays at The Overhead Wire - Beyond the Rishi Maze
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...
10.12.2023
Episode 454: Real Estate Impacts at BART
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...
10.05.2023
Episode 453: Bringing Public Health to Traffic Safety
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...
10.03.2023
Episode 141: Mondays at The Overhead Wire - Access Things Faster
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...
09.28.2023
Episode 452: Beyond Greenways
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...
09.21.2023
Episode 451: Supporting Local Culture Through Development
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...
09.19.2023
Episode 140: Mondays at The Overhead Wire - Parking Money in Solano County
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!...
09.14.2023
Episode 450: Land Use to Reduce Transportation Emissions
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...
09.07.2023
Episode 449: Getting High Speed Rail Faster
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...
09.05.2023
Episode 139: Mondays at The Overhead Wire - Do Pedestrians Exist in the Model?
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...
08.31.2023
Episode 448: A Bootcamp for Infrastructure
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...
08.24.2023
Episode 447: Leadership for the 15 Minute City
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...
08.22.2023
Episode 138: Mondays at The Overhead Wire - Phoenix Rising
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...

What's Talking Headways: A Streetsblog Podcast about?

Download our free app to listen on your phone

Talking Headways: A Streetsblog Podcast episodes:

Episode 479: Charging Up Transportation

Episode 150: Mondays at The Overhead Wire - Housekeeping After Drought

Episode 478: Women’s Transportation Seminar

Episode 477: Culture Change in Cleveland

Episode 149: Mondays at The Overhead Wire - Dispatch from China

Episode 476: Saving California Transit from the Fiscal Cliff

Episode 475: Lessons from Quickbuild Street Projects

Episode 474: Thinking Differently About Vehicle Design

Episode 473: Public Sentiment and Public Transit

Episode 472: Streets for Skateboards

Episode 471: Annual Prediction Show with Yonah Freemark Part 2

Episode 470: Annual Prediction Show with Yonah Freemark Part 1

Episode 148: Mondays at The Overhead Wire - Happy in Cities

Episode 469: On the Bus in Boise

Episode 468: Organizing and Data that Create Wins

Episode 147: Mondays at the Overhead Wire - No More Math Please

Episode 467: Are We Taking Less Trips?

Episode 466: Making DOTs Measure Emissions

Episode 146: Mondays at the Overhead Wire - Into 2024

Episode 465: The San Francisco Ferry Building with John King

Monday Replay: Highways and Partisanship

Episode 464: Narrow the Lanes!

Transit Unplugged Holiday Special: Randy Clarke

Episode 463: Congressman Earl Blumenauer

Episode 145: Mondays at The Overhead Wire - Finishing Up 2023

Episode 462: Downtown or Not Downtown

Monday Replay: Integrating High Speed Rail Stations and Communities

Episode 461: Sausage Making and the ADA

Episode 144: Mondays at The Overhead Wire - 30 Year Mortgages are Weird

Episode 460: Sexy World of Bus Speed and Reliability

Bonus Episode: Booked on Planning Featuring Alex Krieger

Episode 459: Crossings

Episode 143: Mondays at The Overhead Wire - Strictly Limiting SOVs

Episode 458: Older Adults and Climate Emergencies

Episode 457: Want Riders? Run Frequent Service

Episode 456: The Living City

Episode 455: Finding Resources to Do Big Things

Episode 142: Mondays at The Overhead Wire - Beyond the Rishi Maze

Episode 454: Real Estate Impacts at BART

Episode 453: Bringing Public Health to Traffic Safety

Episode 141: Mondays at The Overhead Wire - Access Things Faster

Episode 452: Beyond Greenways

Episode 451: Supporting Local Culture Through Development

Episode 140: Mondays at The Overhead Wire - Parking Money in Solano County

Episode 450: Land Use to Reduce Transportation Emissions

Episode 449: Getting High Speed Rail Faster

Episode 139: Mondays at The Overhead Wire - Do Pedestrians Exist in the Model?

Episode 448: A Bootcamp for Infrastructure

Episode 447: Leadership for the 15 Minute City

Episode 138: Mondays at The Overhead Wire - Phoenix Rising