Talking Headways: A Streetsblog Podcast

• Episode 176: Mondays at The Overhead Wire - Get Your Steps Racing the Bus

  This week on Mondays at The Overhead Wire we're joined by James Llamas, now at Nelson Nygaard, to chat about a number of different items including Vietnam's move to ban gas powered motorbikes in central Hanoi, the importance of walking to your health, racing the 8 bus in Seattle, Brightline's death toll, and the 8D magical city of Chongqing.  Below are the show notes! Vietnam to ban gas bikes - Electrek 7,000 steps for health - The Lancet Race the L8 - Seattle Transit Blog Brightline's death toll - Miami Herald Chongqing the 8D city - Straits Times +++ Get the show ad free on Patreon! Follow us on Bluesky, Threads, Instagram, YouTube, Flickr, Substack ... @theoverheadwire Follow us on Mastadon [email protected] Support the show on Patreon http://patreon.com/theoverheadwire Buy books on our Bookshop.org Affiliate site!  And get our Cars are Cholesterol shirt at Tee-Public! And everything else at http://theoverheadwire.com

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• Episode 543: Measuring Emissions Reduction for Bike Commutes

  This week we’re joined by Mark Kabbash, founder of The Dandy Horse. He chats with us about a new system for measuring and verifying bike commuting to obtain carbon avoidance credits. We chat about how the system works and the funding it could generate.  Find out more about Mark's work at Linked In +++ Get the show ad free on Patreon! Follow us on Bluesky, Threads, Instagram, YouTube, Flickr, Substack ... @theoverheadwire Follow us on Mastadon [email protected] Support the show on Patreon http://patreon.com/theoverheadwire Buy books on our Bookshop.org Affiliate site!  And get our Cars are Cholesterol shirt at Tee-Public! And everything else at http://theoverheadwire.com  

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• Episode 542: Measuring Transportation System Success

  This week we’re joined once again by professor Karel Martens of Technion Israel Institute of Technology. We learn about how transportation engineering is good at measuring only one problem and ignoring others and a new tool to determine the success of transportation systems. Fair Transport Lab Website A scale for describing people's mobility status - Findings Press +++ Get the show ad free on Patreon! Follow us on Bluesky, Threads, Instagram, YouTube, Flickr, Substack ... @theoverheadwire Follow us on Mastadon [email protected] Support the show on Patreon http://patreon.com/theoverheadwire Buy books on our Bookshop.org Affiliate site!  And get our Cars are Cholesterol shirt at Tee-Public! And everything else at http://theoverheadwire.com

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• Episode 541: Reclaiming the Road

  This week we’re joined by Oxford Ohio City Councilor and Miami of Ohio geography professor, David Prytherch. We chat about his new book Reclaiming the Road: Mobility Justice beyond Complete Streets. We chat about how pandemic open street experiments were rediscovering original uses, the cognitive benefits of experiencing car free streets, the opening of a democratic space for a discussion of what streets could and should be.  +++ Get the show ad free on Patreon! Follow us on Bluesky, Threads, Instagram, YouTube, Flickr, Substack ... @theoverheadwire Follow us on Mastadon [email protected] Support the show on Patreon http://patreon.com/theoverheadwire Buy books on our Bookshop.org Affiliate site!  And get our Cars are Cholesterol shirt at Tee-Public! And everything else at http://theoverheadwire.com  

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• Episode 175: Mondays at The Overhead Wire - The City That Lost Its Zoning

  This week we're Han Solo but we've got some great items to discuss with you all. We talk about how Salt Lake lost its street design, how Charlottesville lost its zoning code, and the importance of transit to the justice system.   Post Items Stop building highways - Bloomberg CityLab No zoning in Charlottesville - Charlottesville Tomorrow How Utah took away SLC's streets - Building Salt Lake Transit essential to the justice system - City and State PA Wildlife evolution - LA Times Bonus Items Building credit - Brooklyn Reader Cities not built for mothers - Architectural Digest Dutch kids happier - CNN Texas outlaws dealer paper plates - Jalopnik Chinatown rent strike works - LA Public Press Cutting shipping emissions - Anthropocene Magazine Bike commuter benefits gone - Politico Pro Tax deduction on car interest - Kiplinger Hawaii launches road user charges - Citti Magazine Fig trees turn CO2 to stone - Discover Magazine Teens taking Waymos now - Wired Magazine +++ Get the show ad free on Patreon! Follow us on Bluesky, Threads, Instagram, YouTube, Flickr, Substack ... @theoverheadwire Follow us on Mastadon [email protected] Support the show on Patreon http://patreon.com/theoverheadwire Buy books on our Bookshop.org Affiliate site!  And get our Cars are Cholesterol shirt at Tee-Public! And everything else at http://theoverheadwire.com

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