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Talking Headways: A Streetsblog Podcast

The Talking Headways podcast is a weekly podcast about transportation and urban design.

Feb 22, 2024

Prediction Time! This week on part 2 of our chat with Yonah Freemark, we score our transportation predictions from last year and make new ones for 2025. We talk about the Roosevelt Subway, Transit agency bailouts, open gangway trains, and coming transit elections and extensions. 

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Feb 15, 2024

This week on the Talking Headways podcast we're joined once again by transportation and housing expert Yonah Freemark. In part 1 we talk about the equitable distribution of transportation grants, potential for flex funding for transit, and our annual transit openings discussion.

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Feb 13, 2024

This week on Mondays at The Overhead Wire we're Han Solo.  The news continues and so do we.  We chat about productive transit subsidies, transportation flex funding, and a coming connection between trees and health!  Join us below for the show notes:

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News Items

Keys to happiness - Business Insider

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Feb 8, 2024

This week we’re joined by Elaine Clegg, CEO of Valley Regional Transit in Boise Idaho.  We chat about how the Boise bus system is changing, the impact of fast regional growth, energy infrastructure and favorite transportation board games.

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Feb 1, 2024

This week we’re joined by Dr. Kathryn Howell, Director of the National Center for Smart Growth at the University of Maryland. We talk about her daily e-bike commute, organizing around the Purple Line, the importance of eviction data, and commercial displacement.

This episode was produced in partnership with Mpact