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Jeff Wood

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Talking Headways Podcast: Vive La Transportation Révolution

By Jeff Wood | Dec 21, 2017 | No Comments
Paris Deputy Mayor of Transportation and Public Space Christophe Najdovski discusses the stunning array of improvements to transit and streets currently underway in Paris: expanding the subway and tram networks, better cycling infrastructure, and more car-free streets and public spaces, including the pedestrianization of roadways along the Seine.
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Talking Headways Podcast: Transatlantic Part 2 — London

By Jeff Wood | Dec 14, 2017 | No Comments
This week I chat again with Jonn Ellege of CityMetric (catch up on part one, if you haven't listened yet). This time it’s my turn to interview and we cover a lot of ground. We talk about major London transit projects including Crossrail and high speed rail, how Transport for London is regulating Uber, what’s happening to the buses on Oxford Street, and more.
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Talking Headways Podcast: Mayor Rahm Emanuel at NACTO Chicago

By Jeff Wood | Nov 30, 2017 | No Comments
Emanuel discusses why he wants a ride-hailing fee to fund transit improvements.
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Talking Headways Podcast: Don’t Talk About Professors’ Parking Spaces

By Jeff Wood | Nov 21, 2017 | No Comments
This week we’re joined by James Corless, CEO of Sacramento's regional planning agency. We chat about the Sacramento area and the connections between its urban and rural economies, his past working on federal transportation advocacy, how mid-sized cities are nationally important for providing jobs and housing, and why it’s kind of ridiculous to do 30-year long range regional transportation plans.
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Talking Headways Podcast: Defending the Right of Way

By Jeff Wood | Nov 9, 2017 | No Comments
This week's guest is Benjamin De La Pena, deputy director for policy, planning, mobility, and right of way at Seattle DOT. We talk about SDOT’s New Mobility Playbook, which describes "strategies for shaping the future of transportation in a way that puts people first."
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Talking Headways Podcast: The Mayors of Innovation

By Jeff Wood | Nov 1, 2017 | No Comments
This week's podcast features mayors of three major American cities discussing transportation and "innovation." Libby Schaaf of Oakland, Bill Peduto of Pittsburgh, and Michael Hancock of Denver shared the stage at September's Rail~volution conference for a panel moderated by Maurice Jones of LISC.
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Talking Headways Podcast: A Tombstone for NEPA

By Jeff Wood | Oct 20, 2017 | No Comments
This week we return to Rail~Volution for a talk with Diana Mendes, who leads the transit and rail practice at HNTB. Diana tells us about meeting the author of the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA), what needs to change about environmental planni...
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Talking Headways Podcast: Catching Up With Congressmember Earl Blumenauer

By Jeff Wood | Oct 12, 2017 | No Comments
Blumenauer discusses how Rail~Volution got its start, how we can use congestion pricing and road user charges to pay for transportation, Vision Zero, and why urbanists should be thinking about the Farm Bill.
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Talking Headways Podcast: Guidelines and Expectations for Transit Oriented Development

By Jeff Wood | Sep 15, 2017 | No Comments
This week we’re joined by Abby Thorne Lyman, who manages the transit-oriented development program at BART. Abby discusses how the agency pulled together its new transit-oriented development guidelines. We talk about the importance of reduced parking, the ridership benefits of TOD, and expectations transit agencies should have for property developers.
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Talking Headways Podcast: Land Value Capture and Transit

By Jeff Wood | Sep 8, 2017 | No Comments
For this week's podcast we return to the UITP Global Public Transport Summit in Montreal. This session on land value capture features Julian Ware of Transport for London, Sharon Liu of Hong Kong’s MTR, and Iain Dobson of Strategic Regional Research Associates in Toronto. Each gives their perspective on how land value capture relates to transport development.
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Talking Headways Podcast: Critiquing the Language of Planners

By Jeff Wood | Aug 17, 2017 | No Comments
This week, Robin Rather of Collective Strength joins the podcast to talk about missteps in the planning profession - including how things go wrong with language. Robin shares how she got to thinking about urban issues and why she believes current planning practice is stuck in the 1990s. We discuss the often jargon-filled language the profession uses, taking a paragraph from Austin’s current zoning code rewrite to illustrate.
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Talking Headways Podcast: Transatlantic Part 1 — The United States

By Jeff Wood | Aug 10, 2017 | No Comments
Here's the first installment of my two-part conversation with Jonn Elledge, the editor of City Metric and the host of the Skylines podcast. In this episode Jonn interviews me about American transportation, particularly the history of urban subways and light rail, as well as transportation politics and possible futures.
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