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Talking Headways Podcast: The Freeway That Never Was

By Jeff Wood | Jul 24, 2015 | No Comments

This week we’re talking with Brendan Wittstruck about St. Louis’s never built freeway, I-755, which he recently wrote about at Streetsblog member NextSTL. Brendan discusses the history of the project and how drawing lines on maps can be seductive to planners, who always have to be careful about trying to “fix” cities. He also talks about the racial politics of freeway […]

#DamienTalks Episode 10: CalBike’s Dave Snyder

By Damien Newton | Jul 23, 2015 | No Comments

This week, DamienTalks with Dave Snyder, the executive director of CalBike, about the current legislative session and generally about how things are going in Sacramento. Spoiler: so far, pretty well. But the biggest fish is still in the sea. The legislature will come back for a special session in August to try and deal with […]

Talking Headways Podcast: High-Speed Rail Lessons from France and Germany

By Jeff Wood | Jul 17, 2015 | No Comments

This week we’re joined by Eric Eidlin, a community planner and sustainability lead at the Federal Transit Administration. Over the last few years Eric has also been studying high-speed rail in Germany and France as a fellow with the German Marshall Fund. He recently published a report, “Making the Most of High-Speed Rail in California: Lessons from France and Germany.” Eric […]

Housecleaning: DamienTalks, and SBCA Seeks Steering Committee Members

By Damien Newton | Jul 10, 2015 | No Comments

Now that Streetsblog California has been publishing for a couple of months, we have a couple of upgrades to the website to announce. First, #DamienTalks is going on a short hiatus until the last week of the month. We wanted to see how popular the podcast was and were doing it on the cheap to […]

#DamienTalks Episode 9: Ethan Elkind and the Fight Over LOS Reform

By Damien Newton | Jul 1, 2015 | No Comments

Today #DamienTalks with Ethan Elkind, about the efforts to reform how the state measures transportation impacts of a proposed project. Currently, the state measures how a project impacts car travel time, but a change to state law will turn that rule on its head so that we’re encouraging projects that don’t produce more car trips […]

DamienTalks Episode 8: Safe Streets Santa Monica’s Richard McKinnon

By Damien Newton | Jun 29, 2015 | No Comments

Good Data, it’s the Holy Grail of transportation reform advocates. Today, #DamienTalks with Richard McKinnon, the head of Safe Streets Santa Monica and a member of the local planning commission, about his organization’s efforts to bring data to an often emotional debate over street safety. Santa Monica is one of the more progressive cities when it […]

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