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Ben Grannis was fed up with distracted drivers and people living on their phones, so he did something about it. He set out on a 7,000-mile bicycle ride around the United States to raise awareness and over $40,000 to end distracted driving and promote digital wellness. Having recently completed his journey, Ben is now sharing his Eyes Up message with young people and interviewing athletes along the way. Ben is a public speaker for audiences of all ages and sizes and works with brands that ali ...
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Cycling advocacy and everyday utility and recreational cycling in the UK, with a focus on the Midlands, Warwickshire, and Nuneaton. Knowing how easy it is to cycle just a few hundred miles away in the Netherlands, it’s frustrating that riding is not yet properly catered for in Britain. We need the infrastructure and we need it fast! Let’s cycle like the Dutch! Hosted by BicycleBen (Twitter: @BicycleBenUK)
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It's a Schur Thing

It's A Schur Thing

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Jason and Jeremy are rewatching projects associated with Michael Schur. He collaborated on The Office, Parks & Recreation, Brooklyn Nine-Nine, and The Good Place. Our first series rewatch takes us to the delightful town of Pawnee, Indiana. If you love Leslie, Ann, Ron, Tom, Donna, April, Andy, Ben, Chris, Jerry, Gerry, Larry, Terry, Gerry, as much as we do, then please join us on this audio journey. Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/itsaschurthing/support
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Welcome to BlueDeck. A weekly podcast featuring an eclectic, uplifting mixture of music from today's most exciting independent artists. If you're ready to add new music to your libraries you have come to the right place. Strap in, sit back and turn it up loud.
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Labelling the Disabling is a podcast hosted by Edward Birt, Chief Operating Officer from The Disability Trust and sociologist and comedian Carol Heijo. Join Ed and Carol as they meet super interesting guests and explore the intersections between disability, human rights, social justice and the NDIS and find out how people are navigating the challenges of everyday life with a disability to get s#@! done. This podcast is brought to you by The Disability Trust with the aim of better understandi ...
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This week on Talking Headways we're joined by Adriana Rizzo of Californians for Electric Rail. We chat about freight and warehousing growth in California's Inland Empire, the benefits of train electrification and a new California CEQA exemption push for overhead wires, and why hydrogen trains are getting more attention. *** Follow us on twitter @th…
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This week on the Mondays show, we're Han Solo but have a lot of interesting items about shorter work weeks, children's brains and the impact of traffic noise, overbuilt retail, and highway expansion and climate change. Below are the links and show notes: News Items Supreme court overturns Chevron - Grist Supreme court on homeless - Governing Traffi…
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On this fourth of July special replay of Talking Headways we’re going back to Episode 382 with Alix Gould-Werth and Alex Murphy discussing their work on transportation insecurity. Anna Zivarts mentioned this work in her book and recently on the podcast and I think it’s really important to share it again. Hope everyone has a great holiday and we’ll …
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This week on Talking Headways we’re chatting with Tracy Hadden Loh of the Brookings Institute about impacts of the pandemic on downtowns, activity centers, and transit usage. We chat about creating activity center cluster maps and a recent report entitled Building Better on Philadelphia. Articles of note from the discussion: Mapping America's Activ…
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We're Han Solo this week on Mondays at The Overhead Wire but that doesn't stop us from covering a lot of ground from the last several weeks. We chat about how climate change could impact infrastructure building, the death of Houston's University Line, and Boston's commuter rail ridership success compared to before the pandemic. We cover a lot more …
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This week on Talking Headways I’m joined by SPUR’s Laura Tolkoff to interview Anna Zivarts about her new book: When Driving Is Not an Option: Steering Away from Car Dependency. We chat about non-drivers, car seats, and the week without driving. *** Join our Happy Hour with Seamless Bay Area by RSVPing. *** Follow us on twitter @theoverheadwire Foll…
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This week we’re joined by Wes Marshall, Civil Engineering Professor at the University of Colorado at Denver to talk about his book Killed by a Traffic Engineer: Shattering the Delusion that Science Underlies our Transportation System. We chat about writing process, the ideas of risk and exposure, and what he learned from pouring over old transporta…
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This week on Mondays at The Overhead Wire we go into depth on the past week in New York City and Governor Kathy Hochul's attempt to end a (de)congestion pricing program that was going to begin on June 30th. We're joined by Ben Kabak of Second Avenue Sagas to go over all the details. Links discussed on the show: Riders Alliance | Transportation Alte…
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This week on Talking Headways we’re joined by Michael Batty, Professor of Planning at the University College London. We chat about his book The Computable City: Histories, Technologies, Stories, Predictions which includes histories of computing, smart city critiques, what the discourse on AI should really be about, and discussions on the future of …
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This week we’re joined by Cleveland journalist Ken Prendergast to talk about intercity passenger rail in greater Ohio. We chat about the competing interests of Brightline and Amtrak and the history of passenger rail planning in the region. Check out Ken's NEO-trans Blog To RSVP for our live SPUR episode, click here. *** Follow us on twitter @theove…
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We’re Han Solo today but no fear we’re flashing back to Episode 211 of the Talking Headways podcast where we chatted with Ralph Buehler about the topic of the German transport concept of Verkehrsverbund. With a lot of talk of regional transportation networks and planning, I thought it might be worth a listen again five years later. *** Follow us on…
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This week on Talking Headways we’re joined by Erin Clark, Chief Real Estate Investment Officer of the Denver Housing Authority. We chat about the redevelopment of Sun Valley, a public housing project built in the 1950s that is being reinvigorated by new investments in public housing, parks, and community. *** Follow us on twitter @theoverheadwire F…
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This week we’re joined once again by Jarrett Walker to talk about the release of the revised edition of his influential book Human Transit. We chat about Ursula Le Guin, expanding access to opportunity, how to think about transit riders, the free transit movement and thoughts on anger as a response to change. *** Follow us on twitter @theoverheadwi…
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This week we're Han Solo but have a lot of news to cover including items on skateboarding, new types of segregation, third places, and some ancient ways to cool cities and streets. Check out the show notes below for more information. Notes: Skateboarding - Reasons to be Cheerful Cityhood - Corner Side Yard Cleveland rail competitors - NEOtrans Thir…
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It's Halloween in Brooklyn. This week we have the very first Halloween Heist! One of the best elements of this series. Holt v. Peralta in a battle of wits. Also, Charles and Amy are working together at a Halloween warehouse party. Amy hates Halloween. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/itsaschurthing/support…
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This week we’re joined by Megan Kimble to talk about her book City Limits: Infrastructure, Inequality, and the Future of America's Highways. We chat about the folks fighting back against highways, the history behind building big roads, and what the future looks like for advocacy. *** Follow us on twitter @theoverheadwire Follow us on Mastadon theov…
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This week were sharing part 2 of our discussion with Jim Kumon. We chat about the challenges of development, how to crowdfund a building, coming to the end of an 80 year economic cycle, how the built environment is an outcome of how we structure capital, and how more information can make it harder to learn new things. Some websites of note: Electri…
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