Talking Headways: A Streetsblog Podcast

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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This week we're Han Solo, but have a lot of great news items to share including SRO legislation, Japan's rail expertise, the idea of onboarding residents to a city, and the quiet that came from the solar eclipse.
Below are the show notes including links to the articles that we discussed.

MAIN ITEMS
SRO legislation - Niskanen Center
Older drivers - Carbon Upfront!
Japan's railways - Works in Progress
The warehouse in plain sight - Places Journal
Onboarding residents - National League of Cities
Free range parenting - The Dispatch
Total eclipse silence - ScienceDaily
Sacramento parking legend - Sacramento Bee
Way-mo cars on the road - Streetsblog NYC
BONUS ITEMS
Boom and bust built into the system - Kings College
Mamdani curb management - Streetsblog NYC
Credit card charges going up for Clipper - SFGate
Federal home loan bank system reform - New York Times
Local government staffing shortages - Smart Cities Dive
City owned grocery - 6sqft
Automated speed enforcement - Global News
Robotaxi polls - The Verge
Water conservation overshadowed by drought - The Conversation
Finland opens longest active transportation bridge - New Atlas
Gas prices and housing supply - Newsweek
Amazon's algorithm makes prices go up - Washington Monthly
Wildlife connections through land use - bioGraphic
Asphalt's health impacts - Arizona State University
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This week we're joined by Tom Flood, Grant Ennis, and Brent Toderian to discuss their new communications project, The Urban Truth Collective.  We discuss pushing back on falsehoods and conspiracies through positive messaging around cities.
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This week on The Talking Headways podcast we're joined by Calvin Thigpen of Toole Design and Ysabel Hoogeveen of Upway to discuss a report entitled Refurbished E-bikes: An Affordable Transportation Solution for Cities and Consumers. We chat about costs for used e-bikes and what could help grow the industry.
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This week on Mondays at The Overhead Wire we're Han Solo, but got some great and interesting news for everyone. We look at a model base for disabled Olympians in Milan, the economic security of American households, and how reverse game theory can create win win situations in cities.  All the items we covered are in the notes below.
Main items:
Accessible cities can exist - Teen Vogue
Economic security of Americans - Governing
City doesn't need a dashboard - Route Fifty
Texas' clean energy future - Grist
BART parking rentals - Metro Magazine
Disorder in the liberal city - City of Yes
Climate gentrification in Atlanta - Capital B News
Reverse game theory - Noema
Bonus Items
Akron Innerbelt plan - Signal Akron
Rail trails and housing markets - Joint Center for Housing Policy
Safer streets for women and girls - The Guardian
Fixing what annoys commuters in NJ - NJ.com
Overriding local zoning - Boulder Reporting Lab
Climate damage impacts - BBC Science Focus
A regional innovation engine - China Daily
Hands off the wheel bad for safety - KSL
What government really costs - Governing
Electricity price hub - HeatMap
Vehicle size impacts - ITDP
One acre, one vote - Grist
Longest outdoor escalator - Parametric Architecture
Mexican high speed trains to Tucson - KJZZ
Financial costs of pedestrian deaths - Streetsblog USA
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