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Talking Headways Podcast: Transport Oakland
Here is the first (and hopefully not the last) episode in a series on the Oakland Transportation Department -- how it came to be and what comes next.
April 3, 2017
Talking Headways Podcast: When Relatives Take Transit, You Ride Too
This week's guest is Darnell Grisby, director of policy development and research at the American Public Transportation Association. We discuss the national drop in transit ridership, who rides transit in the United States, and federal policy going forward.
March 29, 2017
Talking Headways Podcast: Don’t Take Either Party for Granted
This week we’re time-warping back to a different era -- last October, and the Shared Use Mobility Summit in Chicago. Laura Washington of the Chicago Sun Times hosted this panel featuring the Metropolitan Planning Council's MarySue Barrett, the Shared Use Mobility Center's Sharon Feigon, and Transportation for America’s James Corless.
March 17, 2017
Talking Headways Podcast: Designing City Streets for People
This week Corinne Kisner and Matthew Roe of NACTO tell us about their influential series of street design guides that give transportation engineers "permission" to put walking, biking, and transit first. Learn how the guides are put together and how cities are using them to prioritize people instead of cars.
March 13, 2017
DamienTalksSGV 29 – Sunday’s 626 Golden Streets Was 17 Miles of Car-Free Heaven
To call the 626, the San Gabriel Valley's mammoth open streets event, a success would be an understatement. Even with the rain, the event attracted roughly 100,000 participants. They biked, jogged, walked, or rolled the seventeen miles of car-free streets along a route that was roughly parallel to the Gold Line Foothill Extension that opened last year.
March 8, 2017
Talking Headways Podcast: Transit Predictions for 2017
This week we’re joined by Yonah Freemark, author of the Transport Politic and Streetsblog’s new series Getting Transit Right. Yonah and I predict what's in store for transit in the next 12 months and break down the results of last year’s transit predictions.
February 28, 2017
#DamienTalksSGV 28 – Meet Our New Correspondent, Brian Velez! And One Last Preview of the 626.
DamienTalks with new person-on-the-street correspondent Brian Velez
February 24, 2017
#DamienTalks SGV 27 – Habib Balian and the Next Gold Line Foothill Extension
DamienTalks with Habib Balian about the Gold Line's future extension schedule, bicycle parking, and more.
February 3, 2017
Talking Headways Podcast: Planning While Black
This week we’re going back to LA Bicycle Coalition Executive Director Tamika Butler's plenary at the NACTO Designing Cities Conference in Seattle. In her presentation, “Planning While Black,” Tamika discusses some of her personal history, issues of diversity and equity, and how cities should include people who haven’t been represented in the planning process.
January 17, 2017