Talking Headways: A Streetsblog Podcast

This week on the Talking Headways podcast we're joined by Cardozo Law professor Michael Pollack to talk about his new book Sidewalk Nation: The Life and Law of America's Most Overlooked Resource. Michael discusses who manages, owns, and feels ownership of sidewalks and advocates for a Department dedicated to them. We also talk about the nexus between sidewalks and roads, the impact of the Americans with Disabilities Act, and Denver's successful funding and maintenance referendum.
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This week on Mondays at The Overhead Wire we're joined once again by Tracy McMillan to discuss a number of super interesting news items.  We discuss the future of New Orleans in a time of Sea Level rise, getting amphibians across the road safely during mating season, food insecurity amidst transit deserts, the importance of weekend transit service, and a bit on meeting people where they are when planning.
Below are the News items that were discussed and links to resources mentioned.
Main Items
SafeTrec street story - University of California at Berkeley

New Orleans point of no return - The Guardian
How Americans in transit deserts get groceries - The Guardian
The weekend transit problem - Car Free America
How planners could reduce the cost of living - Planetizen
Amphibian crossings - Grist
Extra Items
Maul Shadow Lord Janix Transit Map 
YouTube Ecology Bingeing
China releases horses to stop desertification - Ground Zero Channel
Scotland's 250 year forest plan - Make Tech Future
Nevada let five Beavers back into a dead desert - Daily Discoveries
Do Redwoods Only Grow in California? - Atlas Pro
Referenced Talking Headways Episodes
521: Food Deserts and Policy - Stacy Mitchell of ILSR
459: Crossings - Ben Goldfarb
325: Transport Justice - Karel Martens
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This week we're joined by Stephanie Dockery to discuss the Bloomberg Philanthropies Public Art Challenge.  Stephanie discusses how a bus art can get a cult following, how artists are creating attention in their cities with temporary art, and what happens after the projects disappear.
Find the Bloomberg Connects art app here which contains audio, video, and written resources.
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We're doing a bit of a crossover episode this week as I wanted to do two things, promote the amazing podcast The Brake hosted by Kea Wilson at Streetsblog USA and Dr. Anat Caspi at The University of Washington and her work focused on creating a platform that inventories Washington State's sidewalks. This is a reproduction of The Brake's February 24th episode What It Would Take to Map Every Sidewalk In Your State.   
The Washington State sidewalk inventory is now 100% complete but if you'd like to be part of the coalition to get legislative support for continued maintenance make sure to contact the folks working on OS Connect.
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This week we're joined by Arizona State Professor Benjamin Fong to discuss an item he wrote in Urban Omnibus entitled Where's My Package? We discuss his work trying to suss out how e-commerce companies like Amazon have built their logistics systems and the difficulties of last mile deliveries. Benjamin also shares potentially beneficial legislation, movements that could benefit workers, and the process of siting warehouses that impact small towns to the benefit of big corporations.
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