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Talking Headways: A Streetsblog Podcast

The Overhead Wire

Talking Headways is a podcast hosted by Streetsblog USA and Jeff Wood of The Overhead Wire. We explore the intersection of transportation, urban planning, city living, and anything else that...

Episodes

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Episode 598: A More Humanized Experience in Honolulu

This week on the Talking Headways podcast, we're joined by Jon Nouchi, Director of Transit at the City and County of Honolulu. At the Mpact...

01:02:22Oct 22, 2026

Episode 200: Mondays at the Overhead Wire - What is Our Future?

This week on Mondays at The Overhead Wire, Tracy McMillan and Chrissy Mancini-Nichols join the show for episode 200!!! We talk about a mobil...

01:15:37Oct 20, 2026

Episode 597: The Gap Between Talent and Passion

This week on Talking Headways is Part 2 of our discussion with Reece Martin in Toronto at the Mpact Transit + Community Conference. We discu...

40:35Oct 15, 2026

Episode 596: Towards a Palpable Sense of Progress

This week on Talking Headways we are sharing Part 1 of a conversation with Reece Martin of The Transit Brief in Toronto at the Mpact Transit...

41:56Oct 8, 2026

Episode 199: Mondays at The Overhead Wire - New Ways to Think About Transport

This week we're back and Han Solo but we're covering lots of things including the thinking differently about our transportation investments...

39:45Oct 6, 2026

Episode 595: Architecture's Role in Population Decline

This week we're joined by the director of UNC Charlotte's school of Architecture Blaine Brownell. We talk about the role architecture and ur...

57:03Oct 1, 2026

Episode 594: People Based Accessibility

This week on the Talking Headways podcast we're joined by recent USC PhD graduate Wendy Zhou to discuss her dissertation, which focuses on d...

32:55Sep 24, 2026

Mondays Flashback: Outdoor Lighting for Pedestrians

This week we're flashing back to Talking Headways episode 379 in which we were joined by Frank Markowitz and Leni Schwendinger to talk about...

50:53Sep 22, 2026

Flashback: Episode 542: Measuring Transportation System Success

This week we're away at a conference, but we're flashing back to episode 542 where we're joined once again by professor Karel Martens. We le...

57:21Sep 17, 2026

Episode 593: Carspreading

This week we're joined by Sofia Navas and James Nix of the NGO Transport & Environment to talk about their recent report: Ever Bigger? Car S...

54:41Sep 10, 2026

Episode 198: Mondays at The Overhead Wire - Creating Systemic Change

This week we're Han Solo, but that won't stop us from sharing some interesting news including daylighting urban streams, why we shouldn't pu...

41:34Sep 8, 2026

Episode 592: New Tricks for Old Bureaucracies

This week on the Talking Headways podcast we're joined by Joshua Schank to talk about his book New Tricks for Old Bureaucracies: Improving P...

56:09Sep 3, 2026

Episode 591: The Urban Pulse

This week on the Talking Headways podcast we're joined by Yale's Karen Seto and University of Connecticut's Zhe Zhu to talk about their stud...

40:49Aug 27, 2026

Episode 197: Mondays at The Overhead Wire - Change Orders!

This week on the Mondays Show we are Han Solo again, but have a lot of interesting news to share. We talk about LA's people mover change ord...

46:29Aug 25, 2026

Episode 590: Coulda Built 36 Paris Metros

This week on the Talking Headways podcast we're chatting with Dallas Developer, DART Board Member, and urban designer Patrick Kennedy about...

43:27Aug 20, 2026

Episode 589: The Bikeable Forest

This week we're finally doing it! We're going to Kingwood Texas and talking about the greenbelt trail system I've been telling everyone abou...

38:03Aug 13, 2026

Episode 196: Mondays at The Overhead Wire - Disassembling to Save The Building

This week we're Han Solo and covering some of the news from the last few weeks. We talk about delivery worker stress, Maryland's need to bui...

43:46Aug 11, 2026

Episode 588: What Does It Cost to Build a Bus?

This week on the Talking Headways podcast we're joined by Lisa Jerram of APTA and Philip Plotch of the Eno Center for Transportation to disc...

57:48Aug 6, 2026

Flashback: Megan Kimble Talks Highway Expansion in Texas

We're on vacation this week but we're flashing back to Episode 482 from two years ago featuring Megan Kimble discussing her book City Limits...

46:37Jul 30, 2026

Mondays Flashback: The Messiness of Family Travel

We're on vacation this week but we're flashing back to episode 422 of Talking Headways from a couple of years ago featuring one of our favor...

56:58Jul 28, 2026