Talking Headways: A Streetsblog Podcast

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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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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