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#DamienTalks Episode 20: Hit and Run Hero Damian Kevitt

By Damien Newton | Oct 6, 2015 | No Comments

This week, #DamienTalks with Damian Kevitt, the man who went from hit and run victim to survivor to hero. In the wake of his crash, Kevitt dedicated himself to using his story to create a new movement to fix California’s mess of hit and run laws. First came Finish the Ride, an event spearheaded by […]

#DamienTalks Episode 19: CicLAvia’s Romel Pascual and the Rise of Open Streets

By Damien Newton | Sep 23, 2015 | No Comments

Today, Damien talks with Romel Pascual, the new executive director of CicLAvia, the non-profit that programs arguably the most popular Open Streets program in America. Pascual comes to the new position with a strong background in Los Angeles’ Open Streets Movement. He served as Deputy Mayor to Antonio Villaraigosa when the first CicLAvia was planned […]

Talking Headways Podcast: The Transportation Innovation Revolution

By Jeff Wood | Sep 18, 2015 | No Comments

Shin-pei Tsay of Transit Center joins me this week to delve into her new report, A People’s History of Recent Urban Transportation Innovation, which examines how advocacy and political leadership have combined in several American cities to produce a more multi-modal transportation network. We discuss the cycle of change, why mayors and local activists (who Transit Center calls “the […]

#DamienTalks Episode 18 – Melanie Curry on the Recently-Ended Legislative Session

By Damien Newton | Sep 15, 2015 | No Comments

Today, #DamienTalks with Melanie Curry, the editor of a boutique news website known as Streetsblog California. Melanie has been covering the legislature for two full sessions, with a focus on transportation, urban design, and public health. Not surprisingly, we’re talking about the just-completed legislative session, the bills that passed, and the inability of the legislature […]

Talking Headways Podcast: Your Brain on Two Legs

By Jeff Wood | Sep 14, 2015 | No Comments

Antonia Malchik’s recent piece in Aeon Magazine, The End of Walking, went viral in urbanist circles, touching on several themes related to our “right to walk.” In her turn on Talking Headways, Antonia talks about how she became addicted to walking and her experiences walking in Russia, Austria, Upstate New York, and the American West. We also discuss how our […]

#Damien Talks Episode 17: Fighting the Bikelash with Modacity

By Damien Newton | Sep 9, 2015 | 2 Comments

This week, with the California legislative session moving faster than my ability to cover it in a podcast, we’re taking a little break from the halls of the Capitol. #DamienTalks with Chris and Melissa Bruntlett of Modacity. Modacity is a Vancouver-based consulting team run by this husband-and-wife team to push back against bikelash in their […]

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