Episode 74: Mondays at the Overhead Wire - Texas Election Night

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Episode 74: Mondays at the Overhead Wire - Texas Election Night

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Nov 10, 2020

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This week on Mondays we're taking some audio from our election night live stream and sharing it with folks. Chrissy Mancini Nichols and Jerome Horne join us on election night as we talked with local agency folks in Texas about their ballot measures.

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Nov 10, 2020

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A review of the week's top stories at the intersection of sustainable transportation, urban planning, and economic development. Hosted by Jeff Wood of The Overhead Wire.

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Episode 1: Keeping Your Candy: Streetsblog's first podcast. Capitol Hill Editor Tanya Snyder and Reconnecting America's Jeff Wood talk about the pitfalls of regional planning, the hijinks of Florida Governor Rick Scott, and the ins and outs of fantasy maps. by Talking Headways: A Streetsblog Podcast
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Episode 4: Car Brain: Jeff and Tanya discuss the impressive turnout -- and possible pitfalls -- of London's 1,000-person die-in for cyclists' rights. We try to contain our envy (but not our amazement) at Paul Salopek's seven-year journey tracing the path of Homo sapiens... by Talking Headways: A Streetsblog Podcast
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Episode 15: From the Free Market to the Flea Market: You think the conflict between Uber and regular taxi drivers -- and cities like -- is bad? Check out how are upending the transportation system and central economic planning. Meanwhile, in Houston, a flea market to a depressed area near the... by Talking Headways: A Streetsblog Podcast
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Episode 10: How Does This Podcast Make You Feel?: This week, Jeff Wood and I get morose and indignant, in turns, about for roads and the . And then we peek behind the curtain at an exciting new frontier for urban planning: . And then, just for you: a bonus Valentine's Day outtake at the end. How... by Talking Headways: A Streetsblog Podcast
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Episode 38: Dear Bike People: Do people of color and low-income people ride bikes? Not as much as they could be, given all the great benefits biking offers, particularly to people without a lot of disposable cash. -- in many cases, more than rich and white people. But... by Talking Headways: A Streetsblog Podcast
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Episode 36: OMG Enough About Millennials Already: Jeff is back from with all the highlights from the sessions he skipped because he was deep in conversation in the hallways. Isn't that what conferences are for? We discuss what we do and don't get out of these big meetings. We also get... by Talking Headways: A Streetsblog Podcast
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Episode 7: Vision Zero: The best thing about hosting a Streetsblog podcast is getting to call on other Streetsblog reporters for the lowdown on the biggest news of the week. In this case, Jeff Wood and I called on Ben Fried, Streetsblog's editor-in-chief and New York-based... by Talking Headways: A Streetsblog Podcast
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Episode 29: Square Footage: Welcome to Episode 29 of the Talking Headways podcast. In it, we evaluate the potential of , building affordable housing to keep transit from displacing people with low incomes. Too often, the allure of transit raises rents, bringing in a new... by Talking Headways: A Streetsblog Podcast
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Episode 12: Freeways Without Futures, Tollways Without Tomorrows: So, underneath Seattle. Jeff Wood and I ask the essential question: Does it matter? Traffic has collapsed around Seattle's Alaskan Way Viaduct. Image: Sightline Does Seattle really need that new traffic sewer, when ? Or is Seattle's $2.8 billion... by Talking Headways: A Streetsblog Podcast
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Episode 9: With Special Guest Jan Gehl: 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... by Talking Headways: A Streetsblog Podcast
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Episode 5: Get Off My Lawn: Jeff Wood and Tanya Snyder talk about the news of the week that most tickled us or burned us -- the BBC's exposé of that not-so-subtly tell us to stay away, San Francisco's over the Google bus, and a bad decision by Cincinnati's new mayor and... by Talking Headways: A Streetsblog Podcast
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Episode 37: Zero Deaths, Zero Cars, Zero Eurasian Water Shrews: Special guest Damien Newton of Streetsblog LA joins Jeff and me on this episode to tell us all about LADOT's new strategic plan, which includes a Vision Zero goal: zero traffic deaths by 2025, a vision all of our cities should get behind. He walks us... by Talking Headways: A Streetsblog Podcast
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Episode 8: Bikes of Ill Repute: Jeff Wood and Tanya Snyder are back with episode 8 of the Talking Headways podcast. We talk about the not to extend light rail all the way to LAX (and what they're doing instead), plus some analysis of in a city as spread-out as LA. Then we head... by Talking Headways: A Streetsblog Podcast
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Episode 14: Taking Transit Numbers for a Spin: What a week! (ahem, by 1.1 percent) to levels not seen since 1956 (depending how you look at it). And 20 percent of its stores. And there's a to stay up all night obsessing over! And we tackle the fundamental question of how to make a real change... by Talking Headways: A Streetsblog Podcast
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Episode 32: Crown Prince of Fresh Air: What would you think of a city planner, out ruffling feathers with his bold ideas about density and urbanism -- who commutes to work an hour each way ? Ironic -- or hypocritical? That's the question we wrestle with in our discussion of Brad... by Talking Headways: A Streetsblog Podcast
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Episode 16: Knight Rider Rides Again: It was a dark and stormy day in San Francisco and Jeff Wood stayed dry in Woonerf studios, recording the Talking Headways podcast with co-host Tanya Snyder, who was bitter that days after the spring equinox, Washington, DC, was getting hit with... by Talking Headways: A Streetsblog Podcast
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Episode 18: Let Them Drive Cars: Quick quiz: What city is the world leader in highway teardowns? San Francisco? Portland? Madrid? Wrong, wrong, wrong. It's Seoul, South Korea, which has removed 15 urban highways -- and . In this week's Talking Headways episode, Jeff and I talk... by Talking Headways: A Streetsblog Podcast
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Episode 31: Zoned Out: Welcome to the dog days of summer! Before skipping town, Congress passed a transportation funding patch so they wouldn't have to deal with the real problem of the unsustainable way our nation builds and pays for... by Talking Headways: A Streetsblog Podcast
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Episode 17: Play the Gray Away: Jeff and Tanya had a great time this week, getting all outraged at t to ban dedicated lanes for transit and high and mighty about , at the expense of just about everything else. And then we treat ourselves to a fun conversation about -- and whether... by Talking Headways: A Streetsblog Podcast
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Episode 74: Mondays at the Overhead Wire - Texas Election Night

Episode 74: Mondays at the Overhead Wire - Texas Election Night

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