Jeff Wood
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Talking Headways Podcast: California High-Speed Rail’s Next Steps
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A top official at the California High-Speed Rail Authority gives us an update on that mega-project — and also offers lessons on what engineers and planners have learned.
Talking Headways Podcast: Housing and The Threat to Our Very Democracy
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Most American cities are not even attempting to hold on to its middle class — and that's a problem.
Talking Headways Podcast: Houston Mayor Turner’s Complete Communities
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This week, we talked to Houston Mayor Sylvester Turner about the city’s Complete Communities program.
Talking Headways Podcast: How Oakland Got it So Right
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This week, we talk to a key official in Oakland, who explains how the city is creating the nation's biggest open-streets network practically overnight. Are you listening, Mayor de Blasio?
Talking Headways Podcast: Laws Prioritize Cars Over People
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It's another standout episode featuring Iowa Law Professor Greg Shill who describes all of the ways that driving is costing and killing out society — and how non-drivers can't even opt out!
Talking Headways Podcast: The Vital Link Between Health and Transportation
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This week, we talk about how transit can save rural counties lots of money currently being spent on ambulances.
Podcast: Electric Cars and the End of Big Oil
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If you listen to no other podcast this week, check out this one with a electric car booster who sees the demise of the entire oil industry on the near horizon!
Talking Headways Podcast: How to Make a Bus Corridor Great
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Imagine a city that transforms a congested roadway into something that works for transit users and cyclists! It's Boston. Check out our podcast with a Beantown planner.
Talking Headways: Why So Little Big Transit?
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This week, we talk about Big Ticket transit — and why there's so little of it.
Talking Headways Podcast: The Communist Leanings of Charlotte (Streets)
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Geoff Boeing, a professor of Urban Planning and Spatial Analysis at USC, talks all things data and streets, focusing on street network design. Click for the podcast and some highlights.
Talking Headways Podcast: Housing on the Bus Yard
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Talking to SFMTA's Adrienne Heim and Rafe Rabalais about the Potrero Yard electric bus and housing project.
Talking Headways Podcast: It Came from TRB (Part II)!
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Hear it all: trip routing with smart phones, stop sign impacts on safety, how rain affects bus travel times, transit agency equity analysis, and much more!