The Mpact Podcast (Formerly Railvolution)

Episode 88: The Antidote is Local Action

This week on the Mpact podcast we're heading back to this year's Mpact Transit + Community conference in Toronto for the first of 3 podcasts from the conference. This epi

Episode 87: The Cognitive Experience of a Transit User

This month on the Mpact podcast we're joined by Ren Yee of UN Studio at the Mpact Transit + Community conference in Philadelphia.  We chat about the cognitive workload of

Episode 86: Preserving Missing Middle Neighborhoods

This month on the Mpact podcast we're going back to the Mpact Transit + Community conference in Philadelphia to hear about proven approaches to saving naturally occurring

Episode 85: TOD and Affordable Commercial

This month on the Mpact Podcast we're joined by Ryan Kelley, Community development Manager for Hennepin County in Minnesota. Ryan chats with us about the county's transit

Episode 84: Wins and Co-benefits from Climate Work

This month on the Mpact podcast we're listening in on a 1 to 1 conversation between HNTB's Julie Eaton Ernst and Cris Liban, Sustainability Officer for LA Metro.  They ch

Episode 83: Advancing Active Transportation in the Delaware Valley

This month on the Mpact podcast we're joined by Cassidy Boulan and Thom Stead of the Delaware Valley Regional Planning Commission. We chat about their work in Philadelphi

Episode 82: Cities and E-Scooters: The Portland Approach

This month on the Mpact podcast we're joined by Dylan Rivera and Jacob Sherman of the Portland Bureau of Transportation to discuss micromobility. We chat about the import

Episode 81: Transit to the Great Outdoors

This month on the Mpact Podcast we have a conversation moderated by Corrie Parrish of Kittleson Associates with Andrea Breault of Cascades East Transit and Amy Schlappi o

Episode 80: Post-Peaky Transit

This month on the Mpact podcast we're chatting with Tracy Hadden Loh of Brookings about impacts of the pandemic on downtowns, activity centers, and transit usage. We chat

Episode 79: A New Model for Public Housing at Sun Valley

This month on the Mpact Podcast we're joined by Erin Clark, Chief Real Estate Investment Officer of the Denver Housing Authority. We chat about the redevelopment of Sun V

Episode 78: Culture Change in Cleveland

This month on the Mpact podcast we're featuring a one to one conversation featuring Billy Terry, Executive Director of the National Transit Institute at Rutgers Universit

Episode 77: Public Sentiment and Public Transit

This month on the Mpact podcast, Adelee Le Grand of Intellectual Concepts is joined by Scott Wilkinson of AlphaVu for a 1 on 1 conversation. They chat about how transit a

Episode 76: Displacement is More than Housing

This month on the Mpact podcast we're joined by Dr. Kathryn Howell, Director of the National Center for Smart Growth at the University of Maryland. We talk about her dail

Episode 75: Health in All Places

This month on the Mpact Podcast we're at the 2023 Mpact Conference in Phoenix Arizona.  Jon Ford of the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco leads a panel discussing the

Episode 74: Downtown or Not Downtown

This month on the Mpact podcast, we're at the closing plenary of the Mpact Transit & Mobility conference in Phoenix. Christopher Coes, Assistant Secretary for Transportat

Episode 73: Older Adults and Climate Emergencies

This month on the MPact podcast we're joined by Danielle Arigoni, Managing Director for Policy and Solutions at The National Housing Trust.  We chat about Danielle's new

Episode 72: Leveraging TOD at BART

This month on the Mpact podcast we're joined by Abby Thorne-Lyman, Director of Real Estate and Property Development at BART.  We talk about BART's development projects an

Episode 71: Developing with Creativity

This month on the Mpact Podcast we're joined by Phoenix community builder Tim Sprague. We chat about supporting local culture through development projects and the importa

Episode 70: Do It for the Neighborhood Part 2

This month on the Mpact podcast we're listening in on part 2 of a one to one conversation between David Longoria of LISC in Phoenix, and Ryan Winkle from RAIL CDC.  The t

Episode 69: Do It for the Neighborhood Part 1

This month on the Mpact podcast we're listening in on a one to one conversation between David Longoria of LISC in Phoenix, and Ryan Winkle from RAIL CDC.  The two of them