Talking Headways: A Streetsblog Podcast

Talking Headways: A Streetsblog Podcast

Talking Headways is a podcast hosted by Streetsblog USA and Jeff Wood of The Overhead Wire. We explore the intersection of transportation, urban planning, city living, and anything else that piques our interest.

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August 7, 2025 41 mins

This week we’re joined by Emily Laflamme of the Center for Neighborhood Technology in Chicago. Emily chats about the Elevated Works technical assistance program that helps developers bring equitable TOD to life.

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This week on Mondays at The Overhead Wire we're joined by James Llamas, now at Nelson Nygaard, to chat about a number of different items including Vietnam's move to ban gas powered motorbikes in central Hanoi, the importance of walking to your health, racing the 8 bus in Seattle, Brightline's death toll, and the 8D magical city of Chongqing. 

Below are the show notes!

Vietnam to ban gas bikes - Electrek

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This week we’re joined by Mark Kabbash, founder of The Dandy Horse. He chats with us about a new system for measuring and verifying bike commuting to obtain carbon avoidance credits. We chat about how the system works and the funding it could generate. 

Find out more about Mark's work at Linked In

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This week we’re joined once again by professor Karel Martens of Technion Israel Institute of Technology. We learn about how transportation engineering is good...

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July 17, 2025 53 mins

This week we’re joined by Oxford Ohio City Councilor and Miami of Ohio geography professor, David Prytherch. We chat about his new book Reclaiming the Road: Mobility Justice beyond Complete Streets. We chat about how pandemic open street experiments were rediscovering original uses, the cognitive benefits of experiencing car free streets, the opening of a democratic space for a discussion of what streets could ...

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This week we're Han Solo but we've got some great items to discuss with you all. We talk about how Salt Lake lost its street design, how Charlottesville lost its zoning code, and the importance of transit to the justice system.  

Post Items

Stop building highways - Bloomberg CityLab

No zoning in Charlottesville - Charlottesville Tomorrow

How Utah took away SLC's streets - Building Salt Lake

Transit essential to the justice syste...

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This week on the Talking Headways podcast we’re joined by Adie Tomer of Brookings to discuss a paper he and his team wrote about the idea of regional block grants. He discusses the local subsidies going to state DOTs and how more local funding could mean more regional collaboration on infrastructure.

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This week we’re joined by David Hencher, Director of the Institute of Transport and Logistics Studies at the University of Sydney.  David chats about how to fix Mobility as a Service, why transportation providers aren’t home base for these services, and proposes a new way to reduce travel and emissions called Mobility as a Feature. 

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This week we're Han Solo again, but we discuss lead pollution and serial killers, PM 1 micro-pollution,  and how ICE raids are reducing transit ridership in Los Angeles.

Below is a full linked article list: 

Main Items

ICE raids lead to low LA ridership - LA Times

Tinier particles data finally collected - Washington University St. Louis

Reversible architecture - ArchDaily

TTC congestion management - blogTO

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KC wants ...

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This week we’re joined by Madeline Brozen of the UCLA Lewis Center for Regional Policy Studies. We talk about universal basic mobility and research her team has done on the LA Mobility Wallet Pilot Program.  

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This week we’re joined by Ilana Preuss of Recast City to talk about small scale manufacturing in cities. We discuss the commercial side of economic development, the types of jobs we are creating, and how to build community ...

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This week on the podcast, we're Han Solo but there's still a lot of news to share! We talk about research that shows how active transportation can reduce emissions even more than before, the ever growing fueling station, the "dark roof" lobby, and what is a third place really?

Below are the show notes with the items we discussed. 

Show Notes

Gas stations growing - New York Times

Emissions reductions from ...

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This week we’re joined by Chris Berdik to talk about his book Clamor: How Noise Took Over the World and How We Can Take it Back. We discuss the impacts of road noise on health and wellbeing, how our brains process sound, and creating positive urban soundscapes.  We also talk about the problems with open offices and the incomplete story of the decibel. 

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This week we’re joined by Sujata Srivastava, Chief Policy Officer at SPUR, to discuss a recent policy brief entitled The Next 100 Days: An urbanist decision-making framework for San Francisco’s new mayor. We discuss reforming the city's governance structure, what's needed for downtown recovery, transit policy and climate resilience.

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This week on Mondays at The Overhead Wire we're Han Solo, but we've got some really interesting pieces for everyone including on federal transportation funding, EPA trying to kill climate protections, and a group of Seattle friends build a home together.

Main News

Highway trust fund dead since 2008 - T4America

EPA wants to kill GHG regs for power plants - New York Times

Washington State woonerfs - The Urbanist

US government buil...

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This week we’re joined by Bill Schultheiss of Toole Design to talk about bike facility design guides. We look at the benefits of both AASHTO and NACTO guides and discuss the importance of history, political will, and the stress of being an expert witness in a trial.

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This week we’re joined by Ross Peterson to talk about non emergency medical transportation and his new wheelchair accessible transportation company RIDEtoo. We talk about transportation funding for medical visits and how they can be more efficient.

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May 15, 2025 39 mins

This week we’re joined by bridge engineer Daniel Baxter to talk about his almost daily running commute. We chat about bridges, the gear you need for running in cold weather, staying safe on the roads, and the benefits of running to work.

Check out Daniel's specially curated spotify playlist.

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This week on Mondays at The Overhead Wire we're joined by Chrissy Mancini Nichols to talk about how Americans are losing interest in buying cars, how scientists found out how to break through climate apathy, why Florida's real estate prices aren't reflecting climate futures, food deliveries in San Francisco, and how Secretary cut University Transportation Center research grants due to "woke".

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This week I’m joined by Kevin Krizek and Tila Duhaime to chat about an idea called Emergency Streets which focuses on the proper response from cities after a fatal crash. We chat about traffic deaths as an epidemic, and how an Emergency Streets protocol could alert people to the traffic deaths happening in their communities.

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