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Episode 18: Let Them Drive Cars
Quick quiz: What city is the world leader in highway teardowns? San Francisco? Portland? Madrid?
Wrong, wrong, wrong. It's Seoul, South Korea, which has removed 15 urban highways -- and is about to r…
Published on 11 years, 8 months ago
Episode 17: Play the Gray Away
Jeff and Tanya had a great time this week, getting all outraged at the short-sighted move by the Tennessee Senate to ban dedicated lanes for transit and high and mighty about cities that devote too m…
Published on 11 years, 8 months ago
Episode 16: Knight Rider Rides Again
It was a dark and stormy day in San Francisco and Jeff Wood stayed dry in Woonerf studios, recording the Talking Headways podcast with co-host Tanya Snyder, who was bitter that days after the spring …
Published on 11 years, 9 months ago
Episode 15: From the Free Market to the Flea Market
You think the conflict between Uber and regular taxi drivers -- and cities like Seattle -- is bad? Check out how new taxi apps in China are upending the transportation system and central economic pla…
Published on 11 years, 9 months ago
Episode 14: Taking Transit Numbers for a Spin
What a week! Transit numbers skyrocketed (ahem, by 1.1 percent) to levels not seen since 1956 (depending how you look at it). And Radio Shack is shutting down 20 percent of its stores. And there's a …
Published on 11 years, 9 months ago
Episode 13: Live (Well, Taped) from the National Bike Summit
This week, more than 700 bicycling advocates converged in Washington -- despite a snowstorm that closed down the federal government on Monday and thousands of cancelled flights -- to learn from each …
Published on 11 years, 9 months ago
Episode 12: Freeways Without Futures, Tollways Without Tomorrows
So, Bertha is stuck underneath Seattle. Jeff Wood and I ask the essential question: Does it matter?
Traffic has collapsed around Seattle's Alaskan Way Viaduct. Image: SightlineDoes Seattle really ne…
Published on 11 years, 10 months ago
Episode 11: Hug That Streetcar
Hosts Jeff Wood of the Overhead Wire (now working with NRDC's crack transportation team) and Streetsblog's Tanya Snyder talk to Randy Simes in this week's podcast about the dazzling success of the pr…
Published on 11 years, 10 months ago
Episode 10: How Does This Podcast Make You Feel?
This week, Jeff Wood and I get morose and indignant, in turns, about Miami-Dade County's misuse of transit funds for roads and the depressing trend of pedestrian malls going belly-up. And then we pee…
Published on 11 years, 10 months ago
Episode 9: With Special Guest Jan Gehl
Danish architect and urban planner Jan Gehl, who led the turn away from modernism and toward livable cities dominated by public space for people and not cars, is on a U.S. tour. Tanya got to sit down…
Published on 11 years, 10 months ago