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Talking Headways: A Streetsblog Podcast

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

Apr 24, 2025

This week we’re joined by Leah Rothstein to chat about her book she wrote with her father Richard entitled Just Action: How to Challenge Segregation Enacted Under the Color of Law. We discuss building wealth and ideas for building more equitable housing policies as well as convincing people why they are important.


Apr 22, 2025

This week on Mondays at The Overhead Wire we talk state preemption, pandemic era block parties that continue on, and warehouse transportation regulations in California.

Below are the show notes!

Speed limiters  - Streetsblog USA

Block party - WHYY

State preemption law in Idaho - Idaho Statesman

Federal preemption -


May 2, 2024

This week were sharing part 2 of our discussion with Jim Kumon. We chat about the challenges of development, how to crowdfund a building, coming to the end of an 80 year economic cycle, how the built environment is an outcome of how we structure capital, and how more information can make it harder to learn new things.


Apr 30, 2024

This week on Mondays at The Overhead Wire we're joined by Tracy McMillan to talk about aging in place, Nashville's big transit plan, potential Alzheimer's causes in car exhaust, Milan's famous weeks, and the Colorado legislature's search for more housing and TOD. 

Articles

Aging in place - New York Times

Nashville's...


Apr 16, 2024

Happy Mondays!  This week on Mondays at The Overhead Wire we're Han Solo again but we have a lot to catch up on.  We're going over some of the news we didn't get to when we were away in China for a month.  We cover LA's spongy infrastructure, an idea to connect zoning reform to transportation funding, and the transition...