Talking Headways Podcast: Mayor Rahm Emanuel at NACTO Chicago
Emanuel discusses why he wants a ride-hailing fee to fund transit improvements.
November 30, 2017
Talking Headways Podcast: Don’t Talk About Professors’ Parking Spaces
This week we’re joined by James Corless, CEO of Sacramento's regional planning agency. We chat about the Sacramento area and the connections between its urban and rural economies, his past working on federal transportation advocacy, how mid-sized cities are nationally important for providing jobs and housing, and why it’s kind of ridiculous to do 30-year long range regional transportation plans.
November 21, 2017
Talking Headways Podcast: Defending the Right of Way
This week's guest is Benjamin De La Pena, deputy director for policy, planning, mobility, and right of way at Seattle DOT. We talk about SDOT’s New Mobility Playbook, which describes "strategies for shaping the future of transportation in a way that puts people first."
November 9, 2017
Talking Headways Podcast: The Mayors of Innovation
This week's podcast features mayors of three major American cities discussing transportation and "innovation." Libby Schaaf of Oakland, Bill Peduto of Pittsburgh, and Michael Hancock of Denver shared the stage at September's Rail~volution conference for a panel moderated by Maurice Jones of LISC.
November 1, 2017
Talking Headways Podcast: A Tombstone for NEPA
This week we return to Rail~Volution for a talk with Diana Mendes, who leads the transit and rail practice at HNTB. Diana tells us about meeting the author of the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA), what needs to change about environmental planning, the early use of GIS, and the environmental planning process for the Lower Manhattan Recovery after 9/11.
October 20, 2017
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