Episode 57: These Roads Won't Pay for Themselves

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Episode 57: These Roads Won't Pay for Themselves

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A review of the week's top stories at the intersection of sustainable transportation, urban planning, and economic development. Hosted by Jeff Wood of The Overhead Wire.

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Episode 26: Helmet Hair: Did you wear your helmet when you biked to work this morning? Whether you did or you didn't, it's up to you. So why are there so many people shrieking about it? On one side, the , overstating the protection helmets offer against head injuries. On... by Talking Headways: A Streetsblog Podcast
37 min listen
Episode 7: Vision Zero: The best thing about hosting a Streetsblog podcast is getting to call on other Streetsblog reporters for the lowdown on the biggest news of the week. In this case, Jeff Wood and I called on Ben Fried, Streetsblog's editor-in-chief and New York-based... by Talking Headways: A Streetsblog Podcast
35 min listen
Episode 3: Visit Your Grandma: This week, Jeff and Tanya take on the Atlanta Braves' terrible, no-good, very bad decision to move their stadium to Cobb County, Georgia. We discuss cities that are (and are not) shaped like wedding cakes, and whether that means you need to smoosh... by Talking Headways: A Streetsblog Podcast
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Episode 38: Dear Bike People: Do people of color and low-income people ride bikes? Not as much as they could be, given all the great benefits biking offers, particularly to people without a lot of disposable cash. -- in many cases, more than rich and white people. But... by Talking Headways: A Streetsblog Podcast
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Episode 4: Car Brain: Jeff and Tanya discuss the impressive turnout -- and possible pitfalls -- of London's 1,000-person die-in for cyclists' rights. We try to contain our envy (but not our amazement) at Paul Salopek's seven-year journey tracing the path of Homo sapiens... by Talking Headways: A Streetsblog Podcast
32 min listen
Episode 6: Fifty Minutes Talking About Transit in the U.S. and We Never Mention New York: This week, podcast co-host Jeff Wood and I got to chat with The Transport Politic's Yonah Freemark about the outlook for new transit projects in 2014. Building off Yonah's of the year's expected transit starts, we talked about the projects we were... by Talking Headways: A Streetsblog Podcast
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Episode 14: Taking Transit Numbers for a Spin: What a week! (ahem, by 1.1 percent) to levels not seen since 1956 (depending how you look at it). And 20 percent of its stores. And there's a to stay up all night obsessing over! And we tackle the fundamental question of how to make a real change... by Talking Headways: A Streetsblog Podcast
36 min listen
Episode 9: With Special Guest Jan Gehl: Danish architect and urban planner Jan Gehl, who led the turn away from modernism and toward livable cities dominated by public space for people and not cars, is on a U.S. tour. Tanya got to sit down with him in Washington. In this episode of Talking... by Talking Headways: A Streetsblog Podcast
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Episode 8: Bikes of Ill Repute: Jeff Wood and Tanya Snyder are back with episode 8 of the Talking Headways podcast. We talk about the not to extend light rail all the way to LAX (and what they're doing instead), plus some analysis of in a city as spread-out as LA. Then we head... by Talking Headways: A Streetsblog Podcast
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Episode 29: Square Footage: Welcome to Episode 29 of the Talking Headways podcast. In it, we evaluate the potential of , building affordable housing to keep transit from displacing people with low incomes. Too often, the allure of transit raises rents, bringing in a new... by Talking Headways: A Streetsblog Podcast
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Episode 5: Get Off My Lawn: Jeff Wood and Tanya Snyder talk about the news of the week that most tickled us or burned us -- the BBC's exposé of that not-so-subtly tell us to stay away, San Francisco's over the Google bus, and a bad decision by Cincinnati's new mayor and... by Talking Headways: A Streetsblog Podcast
33 min listen
Episode 12: Freeways Without Futures, Tollways Without Tomorrows: So, underneath Seattle. Jeff Wood and I ask the essential question: Does it matter? Traffic has collapsed around Seattle's Alaskan Way Viaduct. Image: Sightline Does Seattle really need that new traffic sewer, when ? Or is Seattle's $2.8 billion... by Talking Headways: A Streetsblog Podcast
35 min listen
Episode 1: Keeping Your Candy: Streetsblog's first podcast. Capitol Hill Editor Tanya Snyder and Reconnecting America's Jeff Wood talk about the pitfalls of regional planning, the hijinks of Florida Governor Rick Scott, and the ins and outs of fantasy maps. by Talking Headways: A Streetsblog Podcast
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Episode 16: Knight Rider Rides Again: It was a dark and stormy day in San Francisco and Jeff Wood stayed dry in Woonerf studios, recording the Talking Headways podcast with co-host Tanya Snyder, who was bitter that days after the spring equinox, Washington, DC, was getting hit with... by Talking Headways: A Streetsblog Podcast
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Episode 18: Let Them Drive Cars: Quick quiz: What city is the world leader in highway teardowns? San Francisco? Portland? Madrid? Wrong, wrong, wrong. It's Seoul, South Korea, which has removed 15 urban highways -- and . In this week's Talking Headways episode, Jeff and I talk... by Talking Headways: A Streetsblog Podcast
34 min listen
Episode 23: Les Rues Are Made for Walking: This week, Smart Growth America : More than 47,000 people died while walking between 2003 and 2012. Most are killed on high-speed arterial roads. A disproportionate number are elderly or . Paris brought us the antidote: The city... by Talking Headways: A Streetsblog Podcast
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Episode 10: How Does This Podcast Make You Feel?: This week, Jeff Wood and I get morose and indignant, in turns, about for roads and the . And then we peek behind the curtain at an exciting new frontier for urban planning: . And then, just for you: a bonus Valentine's Day outtake at the end. How... by Talking Headways: A Streetsblog Podcast
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Episode 25: Rondo Revisited: Finally, there is a light rail line connecting the Twin Cities. The Green Line, , cost $957 million and several decades to build. The process of choosing stations was contentious but eventually embraced the proposals of the low-income communities... by Talking Headways: A Streetsblog Podcast
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Episode 15: From the Free Market to the Flea Market: You think the conflict between Uber and regular taxi drivers -- and cities like -- is bad? Check out how are upending the transportation system and central economic planning. Meanwhile, in Houston, a flea market to a depressed area near the... by Talking Headways: A Streetsblog Podcast
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Episode 31: Zoned Out: Welcome to the dog days of summer! Before skipping town, Congress passed a transportation funding patch so they wouldn't have to deal with the real problem of the unsustainable way our nation builds and pays for... by Talking Headways: A Streetsblog Podcast
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Episode 13: Live (Well, Taped) from the National Bike Summit: This week, more than 700 bicycling advocates converged in Washington -- despite a snowstorm that closed down the federal government on Monday and thousands of cancelled flights -- to learn from each other and compare notes from the past year in... by Talking Headways: A Streetsblog Podcast
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Episode 11: Hug That Streetcar: Hosts Jeff Wood of the Overhead Wire (now working with NRDC's crack transportation team) and Streetsblog's Tanya Snyder talk to Randy Simes in this week's podcast about the dazzling success of the pro-streetcar movement in Cincinnati -- and how they... by Talking Headways: A Streetsblog Podcast
43 min listen
Episode 2: The Happy Place: Streetsblog Capitol Hill Editor Tanya Snyder and Reconnecting America's Jeff Wood talk about the war on bikes, the end of the Klein/Sadik-Khan era, and a whole bunch of sprawling messes down in Texas. And then we go to our happy place. by Talking Headways: A Streetsblog Podcast
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Episode 24: A Butterfly Flaps Its Wings In the Metro: The metro is coming to Loudon County. Eventually. The Silver Line expansion that opens this summer will only go as far as Reston, but by 2018 it'll be in Loudon, one of the nation's fastest-growing -- and wealthiest -- counties. As the county... by Talking Headways: A Streetsblog Podcast
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Episode 27: Walt Disney, City Planner: While most people know Walt Disney as the creator of lovable characters like Mickey Mouse and movies like Snow White and Fantasia, Disney doesn't get as much credit for his design of Disneyland. Turns out Disney made himself an expert... by Talking Headways: A Streetsblog Podcast
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Episode 17: Play the Gray Away: Jeff and Tanya had a great time this week, getting all outraged at t to ban dedicated lanes for transit and high and mighty about , at the expense of just about everything else. And then we treat ourselves to a fun conversation about -- and whether... by Talking Headways: A Streetsblog Podcast
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Episode 45: The Year in Transit Starts (feat. Yonah Freemark): This episode pretty much sums up why this podcast exists in the first place. You thought you knew something about transit? Listening to Yonah Freemark of the Transport Politic and Jeff Wood of the Overhead Wire (and my lovely co-host) geek out on... by Talking Headways: A Streetsblog Podcast
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Episode 20: California Über Alles: Welcome to our all-California, all-the-time episode of the Talking Headways podcast. We start with -- or whether any electric vehicles should get tax breaks. Then on to the conversation about how California's cap-and-trade dollars... by Talking Headways: A Streetsblog Podcast
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Episode 21: The Census' Deep Dive Into Biking and Walking: We were so excited about that we devoted this entire episode of the Talking Headways podcast to an interview with its author, Brian McKenzie. Bike commuting is up 60 percent since 2000, the Census data shows, and of the... by Talking Headways: A Streetsblog Podcast
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Episode 19: Escobar's Escalators: Did you go to the World Urban Forum in Medellín, Colombia last week? Neither did your hosts Jeff Wood and Tanya Snyder, but we sure found a lot to say about it anyway -- or at least, about the remarkable that... by Talking Headways: A Streetsblog Podcast
35 min listen

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