Podcast Episodes

Episode 48: Urbanism in the Style of Gangnam

Published on 10 years, 10 months ago

Episode 47: We Are Speeding by Design

Guest host Tim Halbur joins Jeff to talk about how we design our roads for speed, the idea that we need to design complete streets with Trucks in mind, age in cities, and the airbnb-ification of park…

Published on 10 years, 10 months ago

Episode 46: Free Ranging Transport Data

Tanya Snyder and Jeff Wood discuss free range kids, bus riding dogs and Uber's data dump. 

Published on 10 years, 11 months ago

Episode 45: The Year in Transit Starts (feat. Yonah Freemark)

This episode pretty much sums up why this podcast exists in the first place. You thought you knew something about transit? Listening to Yonah Freemark of the Transport Politic and Jeff Wood of the Ov…

Published on 10 years, 11 months ago

Episode 44: Here I Am, Stuck in Seattle With You

Stuck in Seattle or Stuck in Sherman Oaks. There are so many places to get stuck these days and so many clowns and jokers making it worse. 

First, poor Bertha, stuck 100 feet under Seattle. All the t…

Published on 11 years ago

Episode 43: Level of Disservice

Whether you’re building an office tower or a new transit line in California, you’re going to run up against the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA). The law determines how much environmental …

Published on 11 years ago

Episode 42: I'm Not a Scientist

Do you ever think about the ecology of the city you live in? Not just the parks and the smog. Scientists are starting to examine urban ecosystems more holistically: the trees and the concrete, natura…

Published on 11 years, 1 month ago

Episode 41: You've Got to Fight for Your Right to Party Politics

Has the stupor worn off yet? Election Day was last Tuesday, and we'll be living with the results for years. But Beth Osborne, a former Hill staffer and U.S. DOT official now at Transportation for Ame…

Published on 11 years, 1 month ago

Episode 40: Uber and the Case of the Hidden Gas Tax

Uber is celebrating. DC passed an Uber-legalization law that Uber thinks cities the world over should follow. The problem is, most cities have much more tightly regulated taxi industries than DC, wit…

Published on 11 years, 1 month ago

Episode 39: That Indie Flick You Were Looking For

If you're a Netflix member, you're part of the downfall of the brick-and-mortar video store. There are all kinds of reasons to be sad about that, but we look at its implications for urbanism and tran…

Published on 11 years, 2 months ago