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Episode 180: Mondays at The Overhead Wire - Signal Timing

Release Date: 11/04/2025

Episode 557: Emotional Consumption in Chinese Cities

Talking Headways: A Streetsblog Podcast

This week on the Talking Headways podcast we’re joined by , Founder of Wai Social in Shanghai China. We discuss her summer trip to over 30 different Chinese cities to experience different retail, the impacts of high speed rail, and the social e-commerce ecosystem. We also discuss how competition has made Chinese retail sharper, electric vehicle saturation, and emotional consumption. +++ Get the show ad free ! Follow us on Bluesky, Threads, Instagram, YouTube, Flickr, Substack ... Follow us on Mastadon Support the show on Patreon on our Affiliate site! And get our...

Episode 556: From Bahrain to Connecticut

Talking Headways: A Streetsblog Podcast

This week we’re joined by Cortni Desir, Executive Program Manager for Public Transportation at the Connecticut Department of Transportation at the Mpact transit + community conference in Portland. We discuss her international influences, upgrading bus stops, customer experience, homelessness and transit, and being curious. +++ Get the show ad free ! Follow us on Bluesky, Threads, Instagram, YouTube, Flickr, Substack ... Follow us on Mastadon Support the show on Patreon on our Affiliate site! And get our Cars are Cholesterol shirt at ! And everything else at

Episode 555: Three Principles for Federal Transportation Policy

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This week we’re joined by Corrigan Salerno of Transportation For America. We discuss for a better federal transportation bill, how to create better reporting data for MPOs, and better bus manufacturing. +++ Get the show ad free ! Follow us on Bluesky, Threads, Instagram, YouTube, Flickr, Substack ... Follow us on Mastadon Support the show on Patreon on our Affiliate site! And get our Cars are Cholesterol shirt at ! And everything else at

Episode 180: Mondays at The Overhead Wire - Signal Timing

Talking Headways: A Streetsblog Podcast

This week on Mondays at The Overhead Wire we chat about signal timing tinkering in Houston, the impact of commute times on sleep disorders, Phoenix's lack of water for sprawl, and how many times Raleigh had to bid for contractors to build bus rapid transit. Below are the show notes: Houston signal timing off - Whitmire thinks he knows - Sleep impacted by commutes - Lifting the smog in Santiago - Raleigh BRT contracting - Phoenix has no water for sprawl - Crypto noise - Caltrain puts energy in the grid - China's lower tier cities and retail - The retail hits different - ...

Episode 554: Getting California High Speed Rail Done

Talking Headways: A Streetsblog Podcast

This week we’re back live for another show from Manny’s in the Mission featuring editor Roger Rudick interviewing California High Speed Rail Authority CEO Ian Choudri. They chat about reducing costs, systems in other countries, and take questions from the audience. +++ Get the show ad free ! Follow us on Bluesky, Threads, Instagram, YouTube, Flickr, Substack ... Follow us on Mastadon Support the show on Patreon on our Affiliate site! And get our Cars are Cholesterol shirt at ! And everything else at

Episode 553: Life After Cars

Talking Headways: A Streetsblog Podcast

This week Sarah Goodyear and Doug Gordon of the War on Cars podcast join the show to talk about their new book: . We discuss opposing views, Turtle Jesus, and potential offramps towards car free cities. +++ Get the show ad free ! Follow us on Bluesky, Threads, Instagram, YouTube, Flickr, Substack ... Follow us on Mastadon Support the show on Patreon on our Affiliate site! And get our Cars are Cholesterol shirt at ! And everything else at

Replay: Episode 78 - Measuring Carbon Emissions at Street Level

Talking Headways: A Streetsblog Podcast

This week on Talking Headways we’re flashing back to exactly ten years ago to Episode 78 with Dr. Kevin Gurney, now at Northern Arizona University. We chat about measuring emissions at the street, block, and neighborhood level and the data that enables it. I wanted to flash back to this one this week because I recently saw Kevin in a New York Times article discussing all the work that the administration is cutting, including three of his projects. I’ll link the article in the show notes. But we talked about his work on the podcast ten years ago and it’s important to...

Episode 552: Under a Highway in Birmingham Alabama

Talking Headways: A Streetsblog Podcast

This week on the Talking Headways podcast we’re joined by Ben Donsky of Agora Partners to discuss in Birmingham Alabama, a public space project that connects two sides of the city separated by a highway. We chat about positive public space and what it takes to make projects like this happen. +++ Get the show ad free ! Follow us on Bluesky, Threads, Instagram, YouTube, Flickr, Substack ... Follow us on Mastadon Support the show on Patreon on our Affiliate site! And get our Cars are Cholesterol shirt at ! And everything else at

Episode 179: Mondays at The Overhead Wire - Another Trip to China

Talking Headways: A Streetsblog Podcast

We're Han Solo again but this time I'm sharing some thoughts from my trip to China in addition to the news. We've got stories about traffic lights in Japan, the creation of a new electric company, and housing costs. And of course there's much much more. Below are the show notes: Middle class housing - China builds quickly - Ann Arbor reinvinting power company - Dutch look to regulate bigger vehicles - Mosquito borne illnesses - Seattle light rail testing - New Mexico free childcare - Dallas heat island - CA passes SB79 TOD bill - Return to pre-covid routines brings bad air - ...

Episode 551: Architectural Epidemiology

Talking Headways: A Streetsblog Podcast

This week we’re joined by Adele Houghton of the Harvard School of Public Health and Carlos Castillo-Salgado of the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health to discuss their new book . We chat about how to connect the social and architectural determinants of health before projects get off the ground in order to create more healthy neighborhoods. +++ Get the show ad free ! Follow us on Bluesky, Threads, Instagram, YouTube, Flickr, Substack ... Follow us on Mastadon Support the show on Patreon on our Affiliate site! And get our Cars are Cholesterol shirt at ! And...

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Below are the show notes:

Houston signal timing off - Rice Thresher

Whitmire thinks he knows - New York Times

Sleep impacted by commutes - SciTechDaily

Lifting the smog in Santiago - Guardian

Raleigh BRT contracting - News and Observer

Phoenix has no water for sprawl - High Country News

Crypto noise - The Texas Tribune

Caltrain puts energy in the grid - Metro Magazine

China's lower tier cities and retail - Campaign

The retail hits different - The Overhead Wire

Everything SB79 - Arbitrary Lines

Urban hoofprints - University of Michigan

Highway repair better than expansion - SSTI

US dangerous car standards - Transport and Environment

Land trust affortability - Realtor.com

Waymo and accepting death - Futurism

New census data - Niskanen Center

Secret to Norway's EV success - Energy.digital

China EVs off five year plan - Reuters

Bonus Items

New vehicles top $50K - CNBC

How Vancouver's Translink escaped death spiral - Bloomberg CityLab

Bike sharing boon - Cities Today

Smart phone data and trips - TechExplore

Milwaukee tows reckless drivers - Urban Milwaukee

St. Louis green infrastructure - Reasons to be Cheerful

Stone buildings reduce emissions - BBC

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