Talking Headways: A Streetsblog Podcast

Episode 598: A More Humanized Experience in Honolulu

This week on the Talking Headways podcast, we're joined by Jon Nouchi, Director of Transit at the City and County of Honolulu. At the Mpact conference in Toronto, we disc

Episode 200: Mondays at the Overhead Wire - What is Our Future?

This week on Mondays at The Overhead Wire, Tracy McMillan and Chrissy Mancini-Nichols join the show for episode 200!!! We talk about a mobility idea that's like cap and t

Episode 597: The Gap Between Talent and Passion

This week on Talking Headways is Part 2 of our discussion with Reece Martin in Toronto at the Mpact Transit + Community Conference. We discuss projects getting picked apa

Episode 596: Towards a Palpable Sense of Progress

This week on Talking Headways we are sharing Part 1 of a conversation with Reece Martin of The Transit Brief in Toronto at the Mpact Transit + Community Conference. We di

Episode 199: Mondays at The Overhead Wire - New Ways to Think About Transport

This week we're back and Han Solo but we're covering lots of things including the thinking differently about our transportation investments around the country, the sillyn

Episode 595: Architecture's Role in Population Decline

This week we're joined by the director of UNC Charlotte's school of Architecture Blaine Brownell. We talk about the role architecture and urbanism play in population decl

Episode 594: People Based Accessibility

This week on the Talking Headways podcast we're joined by recent USC PhD graduate Wendy Zhou to discuss her dissertation, which focuses on dynamic accessibility. We talk

Mondays Flashback: Outdoor Lighting for Pedestrians

This week we're flashing back to Talking Headways episode 379 in which we were joined by Frank Markowitz and Leni Schwendinger to talk about the book Outdoor Lighting for

Flashback: Episode 542: Measuring Transportation System Success

This week we're away at a conference, but we're flashing back to episode 542 where we're joined once again by professor Karel Martens. We learn about how transportation e

Episode 593: Carspreading

This week we're joined by Sofia Navas and James Nix of the NGO Transport & Environment to talk about their recent report: Ever Bigger? Car Size at a Crossroads. We discus

Episode 198: Mondays at The Overhead Wire - Creating Systemic Change

This week we're Han Solo, but that won't stop us from sharing some interesting news including daylighting urban streams, why we shouldn't put everything on transit, Barce

Episode 592: New Tricks for Old Bureaucracies

This week on the Talking Headways podcast we're joined by Joshua Schank to talk about his book New Tricks for Old Bureaucracies: Improving Policy Outcomes in the Public S

Episode 591: The Urban Pulse

This week on the Talking Headways podcast we're joined by Yale's Karen Seto and University of Connecticut's Zhe Zhu to talk about their study: The Urban Pulse. We talk ab

Episode 197: Mondays at The Overhead Wire - Change Orders!

This week on the Mondays Show we are Han Solo again, but have a lot of interesting news to share.  We talk about LA's people mover change orders, a poll that finds lots o

Episode 590: Coulda Built 36 Paris Metros

This week on the Talking Headways podcast we're chatting with Dallas Developer, DART Board Member, and urban designer Patrick Kennedy about his recent publication, An Atl

Episode 589: The Bikeable Forest

This week we're finally doing it! We're going to Kingwood Texas and talking about the greenbelt trail system I've been telling everyone about for years. This is a storyte

Episode 196: Mondays at The Overhead Wire - Disassembling to Save The Building

This week we're Han Solo and covering some of the news from the last few weeks.  We talk about delivery worker stress, Maryland's need to build a revolving loan fund, and

Episode 588: What Does It Cost to Build a Bus?

This week on the Talking Headways podcast we're joined by Lisa Jerram of APTA and Philip Plotch of the Eno Center for Transportation to discuss Eno's report: Customizatio

Flashback: Megan Kimble Talks Highway Expansion in Texas

We're on vacation this week but we're flashing back to Episode 482 from two years ago featuring Megan Kimble discussing her book City Limits.  Soon we'll have Patrick Ken

Mondays Flashback: The Messiness of Family Travel

We're on vacation this week but we're flashing back to episode 422 of Talking Headways from a couple of years ago featuring one of our favorites, Jennifer Kent. We'll be