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00:26:28

37 / Desensitized driving — the lost meaning of speed...

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2024/05/29

Road signs seem to get read less than a seventh-grade history textbook. Even the most ubiquitous, exact signs like — STOP — are seemingly up for interpretation (everyone is an artist now, or something). Unfortunately, we're not obeying those crafty yard signs that encourage slowing down, either. Signs that give dynamic feedback — thanks to a radar function that feeds a display board — do make an impact, but not enough. Thorough, safer urban design is the way to lower speeds, and thus lower

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00:14:41

36 / Calming traffic, on the road to safer American...

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2024/05/22

Reflecting on traffic calming infrastructure seen this week in suburban Dublin, Ohio, on Tara Hill Drive.When car-dominated suburbs build infrastructure like neighborhood traffic circles, it's an acknowledgment that we surely know how to design safer streets, and thus every street designed on the contrary is an active choice against resident livability. The road to stronger, safer, and more livable neighborhoods is not a mysterious one. In addition, we briefly touch on an impactful Twitter

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00:16:40

35 / Intercity v. intracity transportation (live from...

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2024/05/15

Live from the move from Tempe, Arizona to Columbus, Ohio: noting constant roadway maintenance, contextualizing intercity v. intracity transportation, and looking forward to getting out of this car. Also, just a tad bit of CNU Cincy FOMO.

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00:59:38

34 / Healthspan, active transportation, & practical...

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2024/05/08

Steve Nash — NBA hall-of-famer and founder of BLOCK training — is in good traffic to chat on the concept of healthspan, and how quality of life and neighborhood design interconnect. We talk baking mobility and movement into everyday life, training intentionally, and stacking habits in a scalable way. Steve shares the framework and ethos behind his current endeavors with BLOCK, and origins in mobility training during his playing days and childhood. Culdesac founder Ryan Johnson is also back on the

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00:32:36

33 / Girls on trains / with Aly Marchant

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2024/05/01

Aly Marchant — my transit-taking girlfriend and a good traffic regular — is back for a walkthrough of being a women on public transportation. She shares recent challenges, protocols to help avoid and navigate uncomfortable situations, our collaboration towards mitigation as a couple, the role of young men, and optimism for female riders.For context: ⁠Gender distribution of public transit travelers in the United States (via Statista).⁠ Connecting with me, Brad: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠On

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00:28:00

32 / Induced demand, Jevons paradox, & wider bike paths.

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2024/04/24

Expanding highways and adding lanes doesn't solve traffic. If it did, the cities that have been doing so for decades would have fixed their traffic woes. But, they're worse than ever. Through the continuously misguided approach to transportation, we've learned a lot about the principle of induced demand, and Jevons paradox. In short, when we increase capacity in the name of efficiency, what we actually increase is demand and use. Thus, efficiency actually goes down. What if we were to

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00:29:27

31 / Scalable development patterns vs. personal...

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2024/04/17

This week, we briefly touch base on three prevailing sentiments, from recent comment sections:There is a massive difference between a personal lifestyle choice, and a scalable development pattern. Folks seem to think the only kind of real estate or housing that one can buy is a detached, single-family home on a large lot. Of course, this is not true. "Not everyone wants to live in a city!" Yes, correct. Just as not everyone wants to live in any specific place. Yet, more people live

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01:17:12

30 / Getting the U.S. back on its feet / with...

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2024/04/09

Dan Burden — America’s most legendary walkability and bikeability expert, and director of innovation at Blue Zones — is in good traffic to share a lifetime’s worth of work on making cities and streets more livable. He’s played a role in walkable design projects in thousands of communities, in all 50 states.Dan is also the mastermind behind the 4,300 mile long TransAmerica bike route, and leader of the famous bike journey from Alaska to Argentina. We discuss: 00:00 Dan Burden is in good

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00:37:30

29 / A Texas-sized mistake: highway expansion in...

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2024/04/02

Megan Kimble — Journalist and author of new book City Limits: infrastructure, inequality, and the future of American highways — is in good traffic to discuss the most infamous part of our cities. Megan contextualizes the current fight over the widening of I-35 through downtown Austin, navigating a freeway-crazed Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT), and extensive research into the relationships between American cities and their highways. We talk the history, present struggles, and future

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00:29:46

28 / Suburban subcategories, rural & urban common...

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2024/03/27

Using the word suburb to describe both small towns and endless sprawl seems like a mistake. Small towns — even when on the periphery of a larger city — sometimes do gentle density even better than cities do. Sprawl is the beast that we are up against. We also touch on the misconception that cities and growth are bad for the environment, and why the rural v. urban debate is a false polarization. A common enemy is involved. We round out this week’s good traffic by listening to republican governor of

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00:53:31

27 / Your next minivan might be a bike / with...

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2024/03/19

Maddy Novich — @cargobikemomma on Instagram — is in good traffic this week to talk raising and transporting a family by bike. Maddy moves throughout New York City daily via one of her many cargo bikes. We discuss the relationship between parenting and car-reliance in the U.S., and how parents can begin replacing car trips with bike trips sooner than they might think.In the episode, you might just find your next minivan. Hint: it's not a Honda Oddessey. We discuss: 00:00 Meeting Maddy,

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00:54:20

26 / Leading one of the most underrated cities in the...

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2024/03/12

Corey Woods — Mayor of Tempe, Arizona — is in good traffic while leading a walkable, healthy, and multi-generational college town, suburb, and rapidly-growing city, all at the same time. We converse on the beauties and challenges of density, tourism, and different forms of transportation in one of the United States’ most underrated cities. Notably, we touch on Prop 478, which is on the table right now to positively amend the Tempe General Plan 2050 to empower needed real estate development and more

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00:27:47

25 / Cults and communes are good at walkability / a...

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2024/03/06

Interest in cults is extremely high, at the moment; Americans' Netflix and podcast queues suggest as much. Why are these notorious communities always so walkable and human-centered in their designs? Can we create community-oriented places without another, separate shared purpose?Aly Marchant - actor, teacher, and my thought-provoking girlfriend - is back in good traffic for a conversation on the cultural zeitgeist. Even Oppenheimer gets a mention on this urban design show.

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00:40:03

24 / Branding a New Urbanism / with CNU president...

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2024/02/28

Mallory Baches — President of the Congress for the New Urbanism (or, CNU), and urban designer — is in good traffic to hash out the details of the New Urbanism movement, and the overall progression of urban design, urban planning, and urban development in the U.S.We discuss: 00:00 On Mallory, and the Congress for the New Urbanism (CNU). 04:10 How have urbanism and urban development evolved in the U.S.? 04:43 What is a “congress” for urbanism? 06:06 A background on new urbanism. 08:36 The history

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00:23:24

23 / Should we be building places for residents or...

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2024/02/21

A Columbus Dispatch article recently came out discussing why suburbanites aren't visiting the mixed-use Short North neighborhood as often. It prompts the question: should we be depending on suburban residents for the success of our city neighborhoods (especially when they have to drive there)? Or, should we be recalibrating the conversation around density and increased residency in/around these neighborhoods? In this vein, we touch on Minneapolis' recent progress (via Pew) in deploying the

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00:50:37

22 / Financial freedom from cars / with Mr. Money...

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2024/02/14

Mr. Money Mustache — a leading voice on financial freedom, prolific writer, and conscious craftsman — is in good traffic to survey the impractical costs of cars, ways to cut down on unnecessary expenses, and how to create more environmentally friendly, livable urban spaces. MMM actionably advocates for forging a lifestyle that centers essentials, better transportation options like biking and walking, and conscious choices toward lowering waste. We discuss: 00:00 At the intersection of personal

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00:52:55

21 / Suburban sprawl & the loneliness epidemic / with...

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2024/02/07

Dr. Tayana Panova — a psychologist focused on the long-tailed effects of American suburbs and sprawl — is in good traffic to talk the X of urbanism (or lack thereof) and psychology. Dr. Panova summarizes how American urban and suburban design over the last century has had profound effects on our mental, social, and physical wellbeing. She centers the need to reshape people in our urban environments; making them more walkable and conducive to human connections. Tayana also previews her upcoming book,

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00:35:02

20 / Crafting the American car-free neighborhood /...

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2024/01/31

Ryan Johnson — CEO and founder of Culdesac — is in good traffic, amidst building the first car-free neighborhood in the United States, in Tempe, Arizona. We talk the evolution of American neighborhoods, working with cities instead of against them, and the future of mobility beyond private car ownership. Ryan also speaks on the potential pathways to living car-free, as well as the math, places, and ebikes that enchant those paths. Appropriately, we’re live from the new good traffic studio at

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00:35:19

19 / Bird scooter bankruptcy & misguided...

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2024/01/24

There's been a mixed and varying reaction to scooters in our cities (even amongst urbanists). With Bird's recent bankruptcy — following a whirlwind few years — it's an interesting time to take stock of our cultural opinion of micromobility as a whole. Did the unregulated, wild-west-esque attempt at democratizing micromobility actually set us back in gaining public support for new ways of moving around the American downtown? A side note: we just moved — we're now live from Culdesac

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01:04:31

18 / Sensorial urbanism / with walking artist...

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2024/01/17

Jonathon Stalls — A walking artist, and leader of Pedestrian Dignity and Intrinsic Paths — is in good traffic (by way of Denver, CO) to talk the power of human mobility and transportation’s most foundational form: walking. Jonathon adds a poetic and expressive element to the inanimate and harsh likes of pavement, engineering, and cities at large. His storytelling is unrivaled in its ability to convey the realness and rawness of human movement in our American cities, outside of the automobile. We

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