Episode 9: Laura Goodfellow
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This episode of CascadiaCast is with Laura Goodfellow. A runner since middle school, she started combining her workouts with transit routes when she moved to Seattle and took advantage of citywide and regional connections. With marathon training, most of her runs are six to eight miles but often reach into double digits. She has started attending Seattle's pedestrian and transit advisory board meetings to get the inside scoop on local projects. "What makes it fun is I don't have to take long, expensive vacations to faraway places because a weekend feels like a mini-vacation," Laura says. "I go...
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Episode 8: Hunter Bevis
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This episode of CascadiaCast is uniquely co-hosted with Hunter Bevis, my older brother and producer of the aviation podcast . By coincidence, for both of our podcasts this is episode eight! Hunter spent his formative years in North Bend, Washington and now resides in Pasadena, Maryland. He recently made a career change from consulting to flight instructing. We both recently acquired our commercial drone pilot licenses, leading to a great discussion on why I chose this route to expand my skill set. We also talk about recent changes in the unmanned aircraft industry and the regulatory...
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Episode 7: Laura Bernstein
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On this episode of CascadiaCast I had a wonderful conversation with Laura Loe (Bernstein), a queer educator, musician, and gardener from Colombia, New York, Los Angeles, and Chicago who has lived in Seattle since 2009. As an advocate for fair housing policies, she adapted the YIMBY (yes in my backyard) movement to Seattle and has more recently taken on the YIOBY (yes in our backyards) perspective. Laura came to Seattle as a musician and a science teacher, and got involved in local politics during the 2015 City Council race as a campaign manager. She discovered significant barriers to getting...
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Episode 6: Nathan Vass
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On this episode of CascadiaCast I had a lively chat with Nathan Vass, who splits his time between driving for King County Metro and his artistic pursuits in photography and video. He also frequently writes short stories about his experience operating buses on his blog, , and cross-posts many entries to . ...
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Episode 5: Cathy Tuttle
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I had the exciting opportunity to talk with Cathy Tuttle, Executive Director of Seattle Neighborhood Greenways. We took a fascinating dive into her background as a Seattle parks planner, Planning Commission staffer, and local sustainability advocate. A sabbatical in Sweden and her family's challenges in bicycling and walking around Seattle inspired her to advocate for safer streets for everyone. Today her influence is apparent in the city's Bicycle Master Plan, greenways and corridor safety projects across the city, and the policy agenda of the Seattle City...
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Episode 4: Patty Lent
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On this episode of CascadiaCast I chat with Patty Lent, Bremerton Mayor and former Kitsap County Commissioner. is the largest city in Kitsap County and home to the strategic Puget Sound Naval Shipyard. Lent shared that she strongly believes families, Millennials, and the Navy are key to Bremerton's future success as a regional economic and cultural hub. She highlighted the importance of school-to-job pipeline programs and the city's capitalization of its downtown waterfront. We also discussed her vision for to Seattle (and how to get tech companies to pay for it), a recent surge in housing...
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Planning with Grassroots Media - Presentation at NPC 2015
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Episode 3: Michael Maddux
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In this episode I sit down with Michael Maddux, a paralegal and Democratic Party leader running for Seattle City Council in District 4. Michael helped spearhead the formation of permanent parks and recreation funding through the voter-approved in 2013. And hailing from Eastlake, a neighborhood that has not seen its fair share of over the past two decades, Michael has a vision for a more vibrant and equitable city. His ideas include reforming the land use code to better protect neighborhood character while increasing housing stock, improving how police officers and construction workers are...
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Episode 2: Cory Crocker
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This week I'm joined by Cory Crocker, an active University District resident who helps head up . The group is working to secure parks and open space amenities as the neighborhood rapidly grows and faces a population boom with the arrival of a light rail station in only six short years. The U-District has a dearth of open space that the city is , and Cory is passionate about the option of a large central plaza. He's also been working on a streetscape project with a new parklet and possible . We also discussed the medley of transportation and housing options in the neighborhood and recent...
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Episode 1: Ben Schiendelman
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Today we start with Ben Schiendelman, a software developer who moonlights as an activist and policy wonk in the realms of transportation and land use. He founded and cofounded local websites and . We discussed the future of the Puget Sound, including a vision for high speed rail and the potential impacts from climate refugees, along with the prevailing political headwinds that are challenging better urban development today. Ben also shared his views on removing height limits, how Sound Transit should expand, and the upcoming Seattle City Council races.
info_outlineThis episode of CascadiaCast is with Laura Goodfellow. A runner since middle school, she started combining her workouts with transit routes when she moved to Seattle and took advantage of citywide and regional connections. With marathon training, most of her runs are six to eight miles but often reach into double digits. She has started attending Seattle's pedestrian and transit advisory board meetings to get the inside scoop on local projects.
"What makes it fun is I don't have to take long, expensive vacations to faraway places because a weekend feels like a mini-vacation," Laura says. "I go on this running adventure to Vashon Island, to Bainbridge, or to Gig Harbor."
We talk about the urban marathon circuit, pedestrian safety, the state of Seattle transit, King County's new Trailhead Direct service, and multimodal funding constraints. While it's easy to get lost in project details, Laura says, "What's important to me is pushing the shift of seeing transit as desirable." For example, "To get from a meetup, people would offer me a ride home...they thought, 'that poor girl, she has to ride the bus home'. I know it's very generous of them, it comes from a place of kindness. But it also reflects that our society sees transit as an undesirable last resort."
Follow Laura on Twitter and check out the Seattle Transit-Oriented Runners group on Facebook, Twitter, and Meetup.com. She was also recently profiled in a blog post by Sound Transit.