Podcast Episodes

Episode 143: Mondays at The Overhead Wire - Strictly Limiting SOVs

This week on Mondays at The Overhead Wire, we're Han Solo. But that doesn't preclude us from sharing the news from the last few weeks including items on work from home serendipity, weaponizing enviro…

Published on 2 years, 1 month ago

Episode 458: Older Adults and Climate Emergencies

This week we're joined by Danielle Arigoni, Managing Director for Policy and Solutions at The National Housing Trust.  We chat about Danielle's new book Climate Resilience for an Aging Nation as well…

Published on 2 years, 1 month ago

Episode 457: Want Riders? Run Frequent Service

This week we're joined by transit expert and former general manager for three transit systems Ron Kilcoyne. Ron joins us to talk about the importance of running frequent transit service in order to a…

Published on 2 years, 2 months ago

Episode 456: The Living City

This week we're chatting with professor Des Fitzgerald about his new book The Living City: Why Cities Don't Need to Be Green to Be Great. We chat about what trees mean to people, the proliferation o…

Published on 2 years, 2 months ago

Episode 455: Finding Resources to Do Big Things

This week we're joined by Chris Fabian of Resource X to talk about his work on priority based budgeting. We discuss how cities create budgets that reflect their policy goals and what it takes to find…

Published on 2 years, 2 months ago

Episode 142: Mondays at The Overhead Wire - Beyond the Rishi Maze

This week on the Mondays show we're Han Solo! But that doesn't stop us from sharing a lot of news!  The Prime Minister of England has pulled the plug on high speed rail, what the pandemic drop in tra…

Published on 2 years, 2 months ago

Episode 454: Real Estate Impacts at BART

This week we're joined by Abby Thorne-Lyman, Former Director of Real Estate at BART, to talk about BART's development projects and priorities, and the importance of real estate to BART's future. 

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Published on 2 years, 2 months ago

Episode 453: Bringing Public Health to Traffic Safety

This week we're joined by Kari Watkins  and Dave Ederer to talk about their paper The Safe Systems Pyramid: A New Framework for Traffic Safety. We talk about the connections between transportation a…

Published on 2 years, 2 months ago

Episode 141: Mondays at The Overhead Wire - Access Things Faster

This week on the show we catch up on some of the news from the last month and go over what's coming up on the Talking Headways podcast. We talk about post-pandemic transportation, sea level rise impa…

Published on 2 years, 3 months ago

Episode 452: Beyond Greenways

This week we're joined by Bob Searns to talk about his book Beyond Greenways: The Next Step for City Trails and Walking Routes. We talk about grand ideas for walking trails that circle whole regions …

Published on 2 years, 3 months ago