Feb 26, 2014
So, Bertha is stuck underneath Seattle. Jeff Wood and I ask the essential question: Does it matter?
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- Traffic has collapsed around Seattle's Alaskan Way Viaduct. Image: Sightline
Does Seattle really need that new traffic sewer, when traffic on the Alaskan Way Viaduct has been plummeting? Or is Seattle's $2.8...
Feb 20, 2014
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 pro-streetcar movement in Cincinnati -- and how they finally grabbed the long-elusive gold ring.
Then Randy stayed with us...
Feb 12, 2014
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 peek behind the curtain at an exciting new frontier for urban planning: connecting urban form with the feelings they...
Feb 6, 2014
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 with him in Washington.
In this episode of Talking Headways, you can hear Gehl in his own words about everything from his...