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Talking Headways Podcast: A ‘Communities First’ Infrastructure Alliance

By Jeff Wood | May 20, 2022 | No Comments

Why this is an important moment for infrastructure equity.

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Talking Headways Podcast: Measuring Transportation Insecurity

By Jeff Wood | May 12, 2022 | No Comments

This week, we're talking about transportation insecurity — who has it and who doesn't.

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Talking Headways Podcast: Transit Project Costs and Solutions

By Jeff Wood | Feb 24, 2022 | No Comments

Paul Lewis, policy director at the Eno Center for Transportation, discusses "Saving Time and Making Cents: A Blueprint for Building Transit Better" — about the differences between highway and transit capital projects and ways to create better governance and lower costs.

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Talking Headways Podcast: Building a Better Transit Board

By Jeff Wood | Jan 7, 2022 | No Comments

This week on the podcast, we’re back at last fall’s virtual Railvolution conference. Former BART GM Grace Crunican discusses the role of board members in transit agencies with former MBTA board member Monica Tibbits-Nutt and former Houston Metro board member Christof Spieler.

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Talking Headways Podcast: Transit Expansion and Service in the Pandemic

By Jeff Wood | Nov 18, 2021 | No Comments

At the 2021 Railvolution conference, our podcast maestro talked about transit-expansion plans and progress in several respective regions, as well as how they kept things going during the pandemic.

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Talking Headways Podcast: A National Perspective on Building Transit

By Jeff Wood | Nov 4, 2021 | No Comments

This week we’re joined by Jannet Walker-Ford to chat about high-speed rail around the country, the benefits of trade and research groups, escalating transit-project costs, and the transport-policy environment.

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Talking Headways Podcast: Asphalt – A History

By Jeff Wood | Oct 15, 2021 | No Comments

This week we’re joined by Kenneth O’Reilly to talk about his book “Asphalt: A History.” We chat about, well, asphalt (which is fascinating!).

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Talking Headways Podcast: The Feminist City

By Jeff Wood | Aug 20, 2021 | No Comments

Talking to the author of "Feminist City" about how our public spaces could transform our society for the better — and even improve our friendships.

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Talking Headways Podcast: The Heat is On

By Jeff Wood | Aug 8, 2021 | No Comments

This week we’re joined by Dr. V. Kelly Turner, director of urban environment research at UCLA’s Luskin Center for Innovation, to talk about how to think differently about urban heat, how to measure it properly, and how to regulate it.