Talking Headways Podcast: Catching Up With Congressmember Earl Blumenauer
Blumenauer discusses how Rail~Volution got its start, how we can use congestion pricing and road user charges to pay for transportation, Vision Zero, and why urbanists should be thinking about the Farm Bill.
October 12, 2017
Talking Headways Podcast: Subsidizing Congestion With Commuter Tax Benefits
This week we’re joined by Tony Dutzik of the Frontier Group and Steven Higashide of TransitCenter to discuss their new report, "Who Pays for Parking?" - an incisive critique of federal commuter tax benefits.
October 9, 2017
Talking Headways Podcast: 14 Years and One Purple Line
Our guest is transit advocate and Maryland resident Dan Reed, and the subject is the Purple Line light rail project.
September 28, 2017
Talking Headways Podcast: Guidelines and Expectations for Transit Oriented Development
This week we’re joined by Abby Thorne Lyman, who manages the transit-oriented development program at BART. Abby discusses how the agency pulled together its new transit-oriented development guidelines. We talk about the importance of reduced parking, the ridership benefits of TOD, and expectations transit agencies should have for property developers.
September 15, 2017
Talking Headways Podcast: Land Value Capture and Transit
For this week's podcast we return to the UITP Global Public Transport Summit in Montreal. This session on land value capture features Julian Ware of Transport for London, Sharon Liu of Hong Kong’s MTR, and Iain Dobson of Strategic Regional Research Associates in Toronto. Each gives their perspective on how land value capture relates to transport development.
September 8, 2017
Talking Headways Podcast: Rise of the Undead Car
Nico Larco, an architecture professor at the University of Oregon and co-director of the school's Sustainable Cities Initiative, joins us this week to talk about how autonomous vehicles and e-commerce will affect street design, parking, and land values.
August 29, 2017
Talking Headways Podcast: Critiquing the Language of Planners
This week, Robin Rather of Collective Strength joins the podcast to talk about missteps in the planning profession - including how things go wrong with language. Robin shares how she got to thinking about urban issues and why she believes current planning practice is stuck in the 1990s. We discuss the often jargon-filled language the profession uses, taking a paragraph from Austin’s current zoning code rewrite to illustrate.
August 17, 2017
Talking Headways Podcast: Transatlantic Part 1 — The United States
Here's the first installment of my two-part conversation with Jonn Elledge, the editor of City Metric and the host of the Skylines podcast. In this episode Jonn interviews me about American transportation, particularly the history of urban subways and light rail, as well as transportation politics and possible futures.
August 10, 2017
Talking Headways Podcast: Self Driving Cars Getting Drunk on Motor Oil
For the 150th episode of the podcast, this week we welcome back Talking Headways co-founder Tanya Snyder, now a reporter at Politico Magazine. We get into the developing topic of regulating self-driving vehicles, including issues of children’s safety and state versus federal rules. We also discuss aviation legislation in the House of Representatives, what it means for drones, and whether private jets should pay more for air traffic control.
August 4, 2017
Talking Headways Podcast: Planning Is Easy, Zoning Is Hard
This week's guest is Lee Einsweiler of Code Studio in Austin, Texas. We talk about all things land use and zoning -- what goes into a land use code, the approaches to zoning in different countries, and of course the dreaded topic of parking.
July 21, 2017