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Talking Headways: A Streetsblog Podcast

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

Feb 24, 2022

This week we’re joined by Paul Lewis, Policy Director at the Eno Center for Transportation. Paul discusses their report on transportation construction costs, Saving Time and Making Cents: A Blueprint for Building Transit Better.  We chat about the project database they created for the research, the different level of...


Feb 17, 2022

This week we’re joined by Dr. Asal Bidarmaghz, lecturer in Geotechnical Engineering at the University of New South Wales in Sydney. Dr. Bidarmaghz discusses planning for underground infrastructure and why it’s so important for the future of cities.

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Feb 15, 2022

This week we're joined by Ian Griffiths of Seamless Bay Area to talk about their work in the Bay Area and we talk about a few news items from the weeks before on housing and transportation.

Ann Arbor council divided on zoning investigation - MLive

Slower growth in Colorado - Colorado Public Radio

French slow rail -


Feb 10, 2022

This week we’re joined by Sahar Massachi of the Integrity Institute. Sahar discusses his piece in MIT Technology Review connecting cities and social media platforms and how we should be monitoring and managing them properly.

We chat about the similarities between managing social media’s bad actors and the urban...


Feb 3, 2022

This week we are featuring a one on one conversation between Carlos Cruz-Casas, Assistant Director, Department of Transportation and Public Works for Miami Dade County, and Grace Perdomo, Executive Director of Transit Alliance in Miami. Grace and Carlos chat about the Better Bus Project, an advocacy-led community...