Talking Headways: A Streetsblog Podcast The Overhead Wire
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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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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, Curbside, and Multimodal Practices.
White Paper Link
The EV Charging Infrastructure Playbook - Link
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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 for a month. We cover LA's spongy infrastructure, an idea to connect zoning reform to transportation funding, and the transition from governments incentivizing retail businesses to warehousing infrastructure. Of course there's more but listen in to hear everything we share.
Main News
Also below is are the links to the items we covered on the show:
Los Angeles Spongy City - Wired Magazine
Local governments new plans for public housing - Vox
Toronto streetcar speeds up - Blog TO
Smaller houses for smaller prices - New York Times
Zoning for transportation funds - FAS
Canadian feds will stop investing in roads - CBC News
Cell phone distracted drivers - Vox
Rent killing sex? - Discourse Lounge
Mexico City water shortage - CNN
Retail attraction strategies - Time
Deadliest Intersections - Stacker
Reviewing smooth cities - The Nation
Transport equity tool - Streetsblog CA
Health benefits ULEZ/LTNs - Guardian | Guardian
Climate boomtowns - The Atlantic
Profit sharing for cities - Governing
The Great Asynchonization - Transportist
Death of the small car - Autopian
Fire department policy - Thesis Driven
AI Generated visuals - MIT News
Houston Mayor - Texas Monthly
Building deconstruction - Smart Cities Dive
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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 legislative priorities on workplace policy as well as some of the barriers women face in the field.
For more information visit: https://www.wtsinternational.org/
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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 leadership, hiring, and culture change at Ohio's largest transit agency.
This podcast was produced in partnership with Mpact. To find out more, visit http://mpactmobility.org
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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 see some pictures from the trip visit our Instagram @theoverheadwire
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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 discussion led by SPUR’s Laura Tolkoff, shares how they did it and what’s next.
Featured guests include...
Laura Tolkoff / Interim Chief Policy Officer & Transportation Policy Director, SPUR
Rebecca Long / Director, Legislation & Public Affairs, Bay Area Metro
Cyrus Hall / Independent Sustainable Transportation Advocate
Zack Deutsch-Gross / Policy Director, Transform CA
Raayan Mohtashemi / Legislative Aide, Office of California State Senator Scott Wiener
Monique Webster / Regional Government Affairs Manager, SFMTA
Adina Levin / Policy Director and Co-Founder, Seamless Bay Area
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Customer Reviews
One of my favorite urban planning pods
I love the mix of expert interviews and weekly news review on Mondays (plus links to said articles in the show notes!). Keep up the great work.
Good content, bad audio
The show has good perspective and great guests, but the audio is intolerable. Jeff seems to fade into mumbling frequently, and the interstitial audio is often much louder than the talking. It’s painful to listen.
New to the Show
I’m new to the show and I’m loving it so far. Particularly interesting in what midsize cities are doing to improve equity.