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SGV Connect #6 – Early Return on the El Monte Bus Station’s New Parking Fees
Metro is beginning to charge $2 for parking at its high-demand stations. Paid parking started this week at the El Monte Bus Station.
August 31, 2017
Talking Headways Podcast: Rise of the Undead Car
Nico Larco, an architecture professor at the University of Oregon and co-director of the school's Sustainable Cities Initiative, joins us this week to talk about how autonomous vehicles and e-commerce will affect street design, parking, and land values.
August 31, 2017
Radio Podcast: Is ‘Vision Zero’ Working?
Streetsblog participated in a live radio broadcast on KALW about Vision Zero with Cathy DeLuca, Interim Director of Walk SF, Dr. Rochelle Dicker, former director of the Injury Prevention Center at UCSF, and Julie Mitchell, co-founder of San Francisco Bay Area Families for Safe Streets.
July 26, 2017
Talking Headways Podcast: Avoiding Carbon Emissions by Taking Transit
This week we’re coming to you from the UITP Global Transport Summit in Montreal with guest Projjal Dutta, director of sustainability at the New York MTA. We chat about the idea of "transit-avoided carbon," how you measure emissions, and the impact of Superstorm Sandy on sustainability thinking in the New York region.
July 10, 2017
SGV Connect 2 – President Trump and the San Gabriel Mountains National Monument
Welcome to the first episode of SGV Connect, Streetsblog Los Angeles' podcast covering the San Gabriel Valley, featuring hosts Damien Newton and Brian Velez.
June 29, 2017
Talking Headways Podcast: Zero Emissions Cities Are the Key
This week we’re joined by Patrick Oliva, co-founder of the Paris Process on Mobility and Climate, to talk about the decarbonization of transport. The conversation touches on the electrification of the transportation sector and what it means for climate change, the role cities need to play in the Paris process and what levels of government work best to address climate change, and what the focus should be for mayors in the coming decade.
June 23, 2017
#DamienTalksSGV32 – Jose Jimenez and Traffic School for People on Bikes
DamienTalks with Bike SGV's Jose Jimenez about the Los Angeles County's first traffic school program for people on bikes
May 18, 2017
Talking Headways Podcast: The Streets Revolution Will Be Televised in Purple
This week's guest is Streetfilms' own Clarence Eckerson Jr. Clarence tells us about his start working in video with the BikeTV cable access show, what goes into making Streetfilms, and the best way to approach people on the street for interviews. Listen and you might also catch a few stories about Veronica Moss and the Zozo.
May 8, 2017
Talking Headways Podcast: The Urban Policy Translator
This week we’re joined by Shelley Poticha, director of NRDC’s Urban Solutions Program, who tells us about the organization's new programs like SPARCC and the City Energy Project. We get into federal policy like the Clean Power Plan and the story of how FTA and HUD were finally connected, and we talk about The Next American Metropolis, the 1993 book about transit-oriented development she wrote with Peter Calthorpe.
May 1, 2017
Talking Headways Podcast: The Future Is Not Far Away
Our guest this week is Sylvain Haon of the International Association of Public Transport ahead of the organization's global summit in Montreal. We talk about big transit projects happening around the world, the transition toward mobility as a service, sustainable mobility planning in Europe, and how autonomous vehicles will complement transit in the future.
April 11, 2017