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Welcome to the Rail~Volution Podcast. Rail~Volution is a network and an annual conference focused on ways that communities leverage major transit investments (including rail, bus rapid transit, bus, as well as bicycling walking, sharing and emerging options) to connect people with employers and neighborhoods. With the Rail~Volution Podcast, we're delving deeper into aspects of building livable communities, with special focus on equity and community participation.
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Episode 37: Acknowledge History, Shift Power, Embrace Accountability
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This month on the Rail~Volution podcast, we're sharing the closing keynote discussion of the 2020 conference. Moderated by Smart Growth America CEO Calvin Gladney, Roberto Requejo of Elevated Chicago, Dr. Adonia Lugo, and Joshua Schank of LA Metro discuss the challenges and hopes the future of livable communities bring. They discuss equity in decis…
As Transit Oriented Development has evolved over 25 years the transit and mobility landscape has been radically transformed by new technology, land-use patterns, and the sharing economy, especially in recent years. Peter Calthorpe, a pioneer of innovative approaches to urban revitalization, suburban growth, and regional planning, will share new res…
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Episode 35: The Healthy Heart of a Community with Nilda Ruiz and Rose Gray
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On this month’s episode of the Rail~Volution podcast, Nilda Ruiz and Rose Gray of Asociación Puertorriqueños en Marcha (APM) join the show to talk about how they’ve been able to build community through TOD while promoting health, wellness, and a green future.
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Episode 34: Wayfinding in Stroller Land - A 1:1 Conversation
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On this special episode of the Rail~Volution podcast, Verdran Dzebic and Ntianu Eastmond-Visani join us to talk about wayfinding apps and how improved wayfinding can enhance the customer experience.
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Episode 33: Advocate to Elected - A 1:1 Conversation with Francisco Heredia and Braxton Winston
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This month on the Rail~Volution podcast, Mesa Arizona City Council Member Francisco Heredia and Charlotte City Council Member Braxton Winston talk with each other about their journeys from being an advocate to elected officials. They talk about the challenges and opportunities their cities have related to transportation and development of the city.…
This month on the Rail~Volution podcast we are chatting with Stephanie Gidigbi, Director of Policy and Partnerships for the Natural Resources Defense Council. Stephanie joins us to talk about federal policy, connections between transportation and race, and much more!
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Episode 31: Optimizing Transit – for the Pandemic & Community
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This month on the Rail~Volution podcast, we're joined by David Huffaker, Chief Development Officer for the Port Authority of Allegheny County in the Pittsburgh region. David joins us to chat about transit operations during the pandemic, emergency planning, the agency's equity index, and the future of streets.…
This month on the Railvolution podcast, we're joined by Dr. Georges Benjamin, Director of the American Public Health Association. Dr. Benjamin joins us to talk about the determinants of health and how certain investments can change health outcomes for the better.
This month on the Rail~Volution podcast we are chatting with Jim Murley, Chief Resilience Officer for Miami-Dade County Florida. Jim talks about climate change, sea level rise, and how South East Florida is responding with policy and planning.
This month on the Rail~Volution podcast, April Bertelsen, Transit Modal Coordinator with the Portland Bureau of Transportation (PBOT) joins us to talk about the Rose Lanes Project. April chats about implementation, public engagement, and the benefits of the pilot project approach.
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Episode 27: Houston's Complete Communities
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This month we're joined by Houston Mayor Sylvester Turner to talk about the city's Complete Communities program.
This month on the Rail~Volution podcast we're joined by Lindiwe Rennert, Transit Planner at the City of Boston. She chats with us about her work on the Warren Street corridor; the creation of bus priority for the many riders on the corridor and how to get feedback on projects. For more information go to Http://railvolution.org or follow us on twitt…
This month on the Rail~Volution podcast we are chatting with Adrienne Heim and Rafe Rabalais from the SFMTA about the Potrero Yard electric bus and housing project. We chat about modernization, planning, electricity use and much much more!
This month on the Rail~Volution podcast we are chatting with Alice Bravo and Carlos Cruz-Casas, Director and Assistant Director respectively of Miami Dade County’s Department of Transportation and Public Works. We chat about better buses, managing the right of way, privacy and data, and their contactless fare payment system.…
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Episode 23: Opportunities to Listen and Lead
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This month we're joined by Grace Crunican, former GM at BART. Grace chats about her long and distinguished career as a leader in transportation and what it takes to lead, to mentor, and gives lessons for the next generation of advocates and public officials.
This month we're back at the 2019 Rail~Volution conference in Vancouver BC. We chat with GB Arrington and Steve Dotterer about the early days of Rail~Volution and what the conference has meant to transportation in the United States. They also tell stories about conferences past from when Al Gore came to Portland to having to move the conference dat…
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Episode 21: Stepping Back to Step Forward
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This month we're at the Rail~Volution conference and join the final plenary of Vancouver 2019. Mac McCarthy of the Lincoln Institute, Lisa Bender, President of the City Council for Minneapolis, and Odetta MacLeish-White Managing Director of the Transformation Alliance. The panel, moderated by Railvolution lifer GB Arrington discusses leadership, em…
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Episode 20: Transit & Housing - Joint Development in Seattle
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This month on the Rail~Volution podcast, we're joined by Sound Transit's Deputy Executive Director for Land Use Planning and Development Brooke Belman, Land Use Planning Manager Sloan Dawson, and TOD Program Manager Thatcher Imboden to talk about how Sound Transit in the Seattle region coordinates land use and transportation decisions. They talk ab…
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Episode 19: The Village at the Edge of the Rainforest
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This month on the Rail~Volution podcast we are joined By Gordon Price, former member of the Vancouver BC City Council. Gordon talks about everything Vancouver from its humble beginnings to its urban planning lessons as well as what folks should be looking to see when they visit.
This month we're joined by Andrew Owen, Director of the Accessibility Observatory at the University of Minnesota. Andrew talks about his work at the Accessibility Observatory and how we measure how we access important destinations. He mentions the importance of land use, why 30 minutes of time is a good way to look at access, and how transportation…
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Episode 17: The View from North Vancouver, BC
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This month on the Rail~Volution podcast we are joined By Bowinn MA, Member of the British Columbia Legislative Assembly for North Vancouver-Lonsdale BC. Bowinn talks about creating better transportation options for her constituents, new transportation technologies, and the importance of political engagement.…
This month on the Rail~Volution podcast we're joined by Amy Silbermann of the Port Authority of Allegheny County in Pittsburgh and Steven Higashide and Mary Buchanan of TransitCenter to talk about the deeper issues of transit ridership. We talk about the places that are increasing ridership like Pittsburgh and TransitCenter's new report Who's on Bo…
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Episode 15: High Impact Investing in Low Wealth Communities
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This month on the Rail~Volution podcast we chat with Maurice Jones, President of the Local Initiatives Support Corporation or LISC. Maurice talks about how he got into community development, their involvement in a new Bay Area housing initiative, and the potential for investments to make big changes for the better.…
This month on the Rail~Volution podcast we chat with Eileen Evert and Brian Ebersole of Springboard Health to think about the 80% of patient health that happen outside of the hospital including transportation and access to healthy food. They chat about their program NEPA Moves that focuses on sustainable transportation and has piloted transportatio…
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Episode 13: Human Centered Design in a Food Desert
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This month we're joined by Vanan Murugesan, Director of Design and Innovation at Pillsbury United Communities. He talks about how human centered design has impacted how he thinks about community building and building a community centered grocery store.
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Episode 12: Transit and Housing - Peanut Butter and Jelly
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This month on the Rail~Volution podcast we're joined by Laura Loe of Share the Cities. Laura talks about being a bus driver and housing activist and how to talk to parents about opposition to housing.
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Episode 11: Lyft, Ford, Transit and Cities – What Works for Whom?
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This roundtable at the Tuesday morning plenary at the Rail~Volution Conference in Pittsburgh this October featured speakers from Ford, Lyft, The City of Minneapolis and Jarrett Walker + Associates. Emcee: Robin Hutcheson, AICP, Director of Public Works, City of Minneapolis, Minneapolis, MN Jarrett Walker, Principal Consultant, Jarrett Walker + Asso…
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Episode 10: Elephants, Wine Glasses, and the Certainty of Transit
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At the Rail~Volution conference this year, Jarrett Walker gave the Tuesday morning keynote. This is part one of a two part series. Part 2, Episode 11, is the round table that took place after Jarrett's keynote speech.
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Episode 9: Community Organizing, Equity, and Place
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This month on the Rail~Volution podcast, Dr. Manuel Pastor joins us to talk about a whole host of subjects from place based community organizing to the environmental justice screen method and rent control. He brings a new perspective to demographic change in LA and has some thoughts on turning academic work into policy.…
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Episode 8: Thinking About Collective Mobility
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This month we're joined by Kari Watkins, Associate Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Georgia Tech and co-founder and "Chief Motivator" of OneBusAway, an open source platform for real time transit info. Kari talks about her research into the role of technology in the evolving transit experience, how Atlanta has changed in the 7 yea…
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Episode 7: Getting to Mobility as a Service
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This month on the Rail~Volution podcast we're joined by Chloe Spano of Cityway to talk about how cities can better use data to support mobility solutions. We chat about Paris' limits on single occupancy vehicles using real time information to get ready for the Olympics and what is needed to get ready for a future where mobility is a service.…
This month on the Railvolution Podcast, former President and CEO of the Low Income Investment Fund (Liif) Nancy Andrews joins us. Nancy and I chat about community development, poverty reduction strategies, and the Bay Area Transit Oriented Housing Fund.
This month on the Rail~Volution podcast, Patrick Siegman joins us to chat on the topic of parking. We chat about the etymology of the word parking, the legend that is Donald Shoup, and why the topic of parking gets so personal.
This month on the Rail~Volution Podcast, Odetta MacLeish White of the Transformation Alliance joins us to talk about transportation and planning issues in the Atlanta region. Odetta talks about displacement pressures on the Atlanta Beltline, the history of segregation in planning, and the big changes coming to advocacy and equity in the Atlanta reg…
This week we're joined by LA Metro CEO Phil Washington to talk about the many interesting things the agency is working on. He discusses building affordable housing near transit, testing new ideas like microtransit, and the origins of Metro's Office of Extraordinary Innovation.
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Episode 2: The Once and Future Livable Community
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This week we're joined by Mariia Zimmerman of MZ Strategies to discuss the evolution of livable communities at the federal level as well as the past and future of TOD.
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Episode 1: Equity Strategies for a Transportation Corridor
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Today on The Rail~Volution podcast, we’re talking with Former Director of the Central Corridor Funders Collaborative Jonathan Sage Martinson. We’ll chat about advocacy and work that the collaborative did along the Green Line Light Rail between Minneapolis and St. Paul.By Rail~volution
