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Jeff Wood

Jeff Wood is the creator of the Talking Headways podcast and editor of the newsletter The Overhead Wire.

Talking Headways Podcast: The Annual Prediction Show with Yonah Freemark (Part I)

The transportation and housing expert talks to us this week about how (and why!) he puts together his mammoth list of worldwide transit projects.

February 15, 2024

Talking Headways Podcast: Organizing and Data that Create Wins

Let's talk about building transit, looking at eviction data, and analyzing commercial displacement.

February 1, 2024

Talking Headways Podcast: Are We Taking Fewer Trips?

This week, we’re joined by an absolute legend in the livable streets movement: Angie Schmitt, who talks about her positive feelings about the coming train boom.

January 25, 2024

Talking Headways Podcast: Making DOTs Measure Emissions

Beth Osbourne joins the podcast to chat about the Greenhouse Gas Emissions Measure Rule that will make State DOTs and MPOs measure emissions on the federal highway system.

January 18, 2024

Talking Headways Podcast: The San Francisco Ferry Building with John King

We’re joined by John King of SF Chronicle to chat chat about the history of San Francisco's Ferry Building — one of the busiest city transportation hubs in the world in the early 1900s — and how the building has evolved over time parallel to the ups and downs of cities.

January 11, 2024

Talking Headways Podcast: Narrow the Lanes!

At 30 to 35 miles per hour, research shows that 12- and 11-feet-wide lanes have significantly higher number of crashes than 10- or nine-feet-wide lanes.

January 4, 2024

Talking Headways Podcast: Congressman Earl Blumenauer

The longtime congressman joined us to talk connections between health care, food and transportation, progress on the Inflation Reduction Act and Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA), and future directions for transportation funding.

December 21, 2023

Talking Headways Podcast: Sausage Making and the ADA

"It is fundamentally inappropriate to keep charging disabled people twice as much," our guest Ron Brooks says.

December 7, 2023

Talking Headways Podcast: The Sexy World of Bus Speeds

When you start to add up the numbers, you can see why agency leaders would be interesting in finding ways to reduce those costs.

November 30, 2023

Talking Headways Podcast: Oh, Deer, We Have to Stop Roadkill

Don't call it "roadkill." Call it "wildlife that we need to protect for them and for us." A very special podcast episode.

November 16, 2023