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A weekly podcast about the intersection between sustainable transportation, urban planning, and economic development. Hosted by Jeff Wood of The Overhead Wire.

Talking Headways: A Streetsblog Podcast The Overhead Wire

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A weekly podcast about the intersection between sustainable transportation, urban planning, and economic development. Hosted by Jeff Wood of The Overhead Wire.

    Episode 476: Saving California Transit from the Fiscal Cliff

    Episode 476: Saving California Transit from the Fiscal Cliff

    This week we’re sharing a San Francisco Planning and Urban Research (SPUR) forum on how a statewide coalition of transit advocates were able to organize a funding bridge to avert a fiscal cliff for transit operators in the state. The discussion led by SPUR’s Laura Tolkoff, shares how they did it and what’s next.
    Featured guests include...
    Laura Tolkoff / Interim Chief Policy Officer & Transportation Policy Director, SPUR      
    Rebecca Long / Director, Legislation & Public Affairs, Bay Area Metro      
    Cyrus Hall / Independent Sustainable Transportation Advocate      
    Zack Deutsch-Gross / Policy Director, Transform CA      
    Raayan Mohtashemi / Legislative Aide, Office of California State Senator Scott Wiener      
    Monique Webster / Regional Government Affairs Manager, SFMTA
    Adina Levin / Policy Director and Co-Founder, Seamless Bay Area
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    • 48 min
    Episode 475: Lessons from Quickbuild Street Projects

    Episode 475: Lessons from Quickbuild Street Projects

    This week we’re joined by Heidi Simon, Director of Thriving Communities at Smart Growth America. Heidi talks about lessons learned from Complete Streets Leadership Academies as state and local officials and advocates work to create safer streets through quick build projects.
    Find the report here.
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    • 37 min
    Episode 474: Thinking Differently About Vehicle Design

    Episode 474: Thinking Differently About Vehicle Design

    This week we’re joined by vehicle designer Dan Sturges to talk about his book Near to Far: A Design for a new and Equitable Transportation System. We talk about new ways of thinking about vehicle design, mobility for low density areas, as well as pop culture perceptions of small vehicles.
    Find out more about what Dan is working on at http://www.dzn.camp
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    Episode 473: Public Sentiment and Public Transit

    Episode 473: Public Sentiment and Public Transit

    This week we’re featuring a 1 to 1 conversation between Adelee Le Grand of Intellectual Concepts and Scott Wilkinson of AlphaVu. They chat about how transit agencies can get a better handle on how riders and non-riders alike feel about their service.
    This episode was produced in partnership with Mpact. To learn more about the annual conference, visit http://mpactmobility.org
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    • 45 min
    Episode 472: Streets for Skateboards

    Episode 472: Streets for Skateboards

    This week we’re joined by skateboard advocate Aaron Breetwor, brand manager for Comet Skateboards. Aaron chats about using skateboards for transportation, designing streets for safer skateboarding, and this last years incident at the Dolores Street hill bomb.
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    • 57 min
    Episode 471: Annual Prediction Show with Yonah Freemark Part 2

    Episode 471: Annual Prediction Show with Yonah Freemark Part 2

    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. 
    You can find Transit Explorer through the Transport Politic. 
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    • 33 min

Customer Reviews

4.7 out of 5
154 Ratings

154 Ratings

AMP89613 ,

One of my favorite urban planning pods

I love the mix of expert interviews and weekly news review on Mondays (plus links to said articles in the show notes!). Keep up the great work.

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Good content, bad audio

The show has good perspective and great guests, but the audio is intolerable. Jeff seems to fade into mumbling frequently, and the interstitial audio is often much louder than the talking. It’s painful to listen.

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New to the Show

I’m new to the show and I’m loving it so far. Particularly interesting in what midsize cities are doing to improve equity.

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