Talking Headways: A Streetsblog Podcast The Overhead Wire

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 from governments incentivizing retail businesses to warehousing infrastructure.  Of course there's more but listen in to hear everything we share.
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Also below is are the links to the items we covered on the show:
Los Angeles Spongy City - Wired Magazine
Local governments new plans for public housing - Vox
Toronto streetcar speeds up - Blog TO
Smaller houses for smaller prices - New York Times
Zoning for transportation funds - FAS
Canadian feds will stop investing in roads - CBC News
Cell phone distracted drivers - Vox
Rent killing sex? - Discourse Lounge
Mexico City water shortage - CNN
Retail attraction strategies - Time
Deadliest Intersections - Stacker
Reviewing smooth cities - The Nation
Transport equity tool - Streetsblog CA
Health benefits ULEZ/LTNs - Guardian | Guardian
Climate boomtowns - The Atlantic
Profit sharing for cities - Governing
The Great Asynchonization - Transportist
Death of the small car - Autopian
Fire department policy - Thesis Driven
AI Generated visuals - MIT News
Houston Mayor - Texas Monthly
Building deconstruction - Smart Cities Dive
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This week we’re joined by Sara Stickler, President and CEO of WTS International. We discuss how WTS highlights women’s expertise in transportation and how they create opportunities from mentorship to leadership and education. We also chat about some of their legislative priorities on workplace policy as well as some of the barriers women face in the field.
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This week we’re featuring a one to one conversation between Billy Terry, Executive Director of the National Transit Institute at Rutgers University, and India Birdsong Terry, General Manager and CEO of the Greater Cleveland Regional Transit Authority. They discuss leadership, hiring, and culture change at Ohio's largest transit agency. 

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This week on Mondays at The Overhead Wire Jeff talks about his month long trip to China. Subways, multi-use paths, urbanism and more! We chat about Chinese mall culture, great food, and a really cool station design in Shenzhen.
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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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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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