Episode Details

In this episode, I reconnect with Matt Pinder, a traffic engineer who designs people-oriented roads and intersections; he's also a safer streets advocate with both a blog and a YouTube channel. We get into the details and discuss the role of community members and city leadership.

We also discuss the nuts and bolts of shifting the focus of transportation engineering towards redesigning our streets for people, and we even walk through the creation of a "Dutch-style" protected intersection within the existing intersection footprint.

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Helpful Links (note that some may include affiliate links to help me support the channel):
- Our Bicycle Streets episode from Season 1
- Matt's blog Beyond the Automobile
- Matt's YouTube Channel
- How to Design a Dutch-Style Protected Intersection video
- Matt on Twitter
- Ontario Traffic Man YouTube Channel
- Oh The Urbanity! YouTube Channel
- My ep. w/ Jasmine & Patrick w/ Oh The Urbanity!
- Not Just Bikes YouTube Channel
- My first episode w/ Jason w/ NJB
- My second episode w/ Jason w/ NJB
- NJB Crossing the Street Shouldn't be Deadly video
- NJB STROADS video
- NJB Wonderland Rd, London, ON video
- Strong Towns website
- The War on Cars Podcast
- Car-Free Megacities episode
- City Beautiful YouTube Channel
- RMTransit YouTube Channel

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Credits:
All video and audio production by John Simmerman

Music:
Epidemic Sound

Resources used during the production of this episode:
- My awesome recording platform is Ecamm
- Adobe Creative Cloud Suite

Studio Equipment:
- Main MIcrophone Sennheiser Pro Audio MKH416-P48U3
- Rode RODECaster Pro Podcast Production Studio
- Additional Microphone - Shure MV7
- Camera - Sony ZV-E10 (currently sold out)
- Lens - Sigma 16mm f/1.4 DC DN Contemporary Lens
- El