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Talking Headways: A Streetsblog PodcastEpisode 569: The Annual Prediction Show with Yonah FreemarkThis week we're joined once again by Yonah Freemark. In Part 2, we talk about our predictions from last year and what we got right and wrong on high speed rail and transportation funding, then we make new ones for the coming year that include Seattle and Mexico. +++ Get the show ad free on Patreon! Find out about our newsletter and archive on YouTube! Follow us on Bluesky, Threads, Instagram, YouTube, Flickr, Substack ... @theoverheadwire Follow us on Mastadon theoverheadwire@sfba.social Support the show on Patreon h...
2026-03-0531 minTalking Headways: A Streetsblog PodcastEpisode 568: The Year in Transit with Yonah Freemark Part 1This week we're joined once again by Yonah Freemark to discuss the state of transit in the US and around the world. In Part 1, we talk about the longer term impacts of the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law, improving TOD, what the future of transportation should look like, and discuss updates to Transit Explorer. +++ Get the show ad free on Patreon! Find out about our newsletter and archive on YouTube! Follow us on Bluesky, Threads, Instagram, YouTube, Flickr, Substack ... @theoverheadwire Follow us on Mastadon theoverheadwire@sfba.social Support the s...
2026-02-2652 min
Good for CitiesIs High-Speed Rail Good for Cities?What possibilities and risks does high-speed rail pose for Canadian cities?
On this episode of Good for Cities, host Matti Siemiatycki is joined by Yonah Freemark to unpack the pros and cons of high-speed rail in Canada. They explore how high-speed rail can improve people’s lives by cutting travel times, enhancing access to jobs and services, and boosting economic opportunities, especially for secondary cities that often benefit from stronger regional connections. At the same time, they discuss how local context poses specific challenges for proposed high-speed rail projects in Canada, including environmental conditions, ridership, and construction an...
2026-01-2037 min
The War on CarsShould the Bus Be Free? With Yonah FreemarkShould the bus be free? That's the question everyone following the New York City mayoral race is asking, with Democratic primary winner Zohran Mamdani promising to focus on fast, free buses if he's elected to City Hall. Eliminating bus fares is a big idea, but is it a good one? Like a lot of things in politics, there's no simple answer. That's why we asked Yonah Freemark — a researcher in cities, land use, and transportation at the Urban Institute — to walk us through the pros and cons of making the bus free for everyone. Whatever you think about it, the...
2025-08-121h 00
Bike Talk#2513 State of the Union, Rebuilding a bike-oriented LA, and Bike storage as keyListener Email: John Gibilisco on the Sisyphean undertaking of Omaha bike advocacy (1:40).
#Teslatakedown (2:45).
The MAGAS are cutting all federal funding for bike infrastructure but also reneging on grants to projects like Reconnecting Communities, which would address the harms of highways. With Yonah Freemark, a principal research associate in the Housing and Communities Division at the Urban Institute (4:05).
Boston's bike friendly Mayor Wu is ripping out protected bike lanes to appease the right, according to advocates like Boston Cyclists' Union Communications Manager Mandy Wilkins (15:59).
LA architect Neal Payton on how to rebuild Los Angeles to be more bike oriented after the...
2025-04-0258 minTalking Headways: A Streetsblog PodcastEpisode 524: Yonah Freemark Part 2This week Yonah Freemark of the Urban Institute is back again for Part 2 of our annual discussion. This week we make predictions! We look at what we predicted last year and what might happen in 2025. +++ Follow us on Bluesky, Threads, Instagram, YouTube, Flickr, Substack ... @theoverheadwire Follow us on Mastadon theoverheadwire@sfba.social Support the show on Patreon http://patreon.com/theoverheadwire Buy books on our Bookshop.org Affiliate site! And get our Cars are Cholesterol shirt at Tee-Public! And everything else at http://the...
2025-03-1332 minTalking Headways: A Streetsblog PodcastEpisode 523: Yonah Freemark Part 1This week we're joined once again by Yonah Freemark of the Urban Institute to discuss his annual transit project updates at Transit Explorer. In Part 1, we talk about housing strategies for properties near transit, exciting transit openings in 2025, and which cities could use a subway project. We also talk about government deference to local officials and how we can better use public assets to create more housing. +++ Follow us on Bluesky, Threads, Instagram, YouTube, Flickr, Substack ... @theoverheadwire Follow us on Mastadon theoverheadwire@sfba.social Support the show on Patreon h...
2025-03-0650 min
Amped UpBallots & Budgets: A Review of 2024 Transportation Referenda with Yonah FreemarkAMPO Transportation Planning Manager, Ellen Zavisca, talks with Yonah Freemark from the Urban Institute to get his take on why some transportation ballot measures succeeded and other failed.Learn more about Yonah here: https://www.urban.org/author/yonah-freemarkCheck out his Bluesky threads on 2024 ballot measures:https://bsky.app/profile/yfreemark.bsky.social/post/3laeg52565z2nhttps://bsky.app/profile/yfreemark.bsky.social/post/3laeg52565z2nhttps://bsky.app/profile/yfreemark.bsky.social/post/3laer73onwc2rStreetsblog also has a summary of local transpo...
2025-01-2229 min
Talking Headways: A Streetsblog PodcastEpisode 163: Mondays at The Overhead Wire - Welcome to 2025We're Han Solo this week but have a lot to share from the end of December and the start of 2025. As we get back into the new year we cover new ways to think about housing construction, transit expansion from Yonah Freemark, and worries about the brightness of headlights. Check out the show notes below. Transit Openings 2025 - Transport Politic Radical construction rethink - Common Edge Property tax rethink - Slate Intergenerational living arrangement - Maclean's Canada Forever chemicals in drinking water - New York Times
2025-01-1436 min
good traffic.65 / Funding cuts, DOT mechanics, & Waymo optimism.Quick hits re: the federal-level implications of the recent election on transportation, housing, and urbanism in the U.S.
No political post-mortems or predictions, but rather look at existing policies and their potential impacts. Surface level breakdown of the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA) and the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA), detailing the combined $566 billion in federal transportation spending through 2026. Heading into Thanksgiving, we also stress the importance of communicating urbanism ideas effectively across political divides at the family gathering.
The episode concludes with a clip from Pete Buttigieg discussing road safety goals, in comparison...
2024-11-2028 minBike TalkBike Talk - Us Versus ThemVoices from World Day of Remembrance for Traffic Victims in Los Angeles.
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Transportation under Trump according to Yonah Freemark, principal research associate in the Metropolitan Housing and Communities Policy Center at the Urban Institute.
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Los Angeles Bike Fest with BikeLA Director Eli Kaufman.
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Strong Towns Northampton checks its tone over a bike lane closure. With Danielle McKhan, Jennifer Nery, and Alex Bowman.
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Fighting for bikes means fighting back against the Ontario Premier Doug Ford’s attempt to rip out Toronto’s bike infrastructure- with Norm Di Pasquale, New Democratic Party Candidate for Spadina - Fort York in Toronto, Canada.
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Studying the...
2024-11-2057 min
KQED's ForumWhat Should the Next President Do to Ease the Housing Crisis?Vice President Kamala Harris has released a set of proposals she says will make housing more affordable if she’s elected president in November. Her ideas include tax incentives to encourage more home construction, down payment assistance for homebuyers, and rules to make it harder for corporate investors to buy up single family houses. We’ll examine the plan and how much of a role the country’s housing crisis could play in this fall’s election.Guests:Mike Madrid, Republican strategist; co-founder, The Lincoln Project. His new book is "The Latino Century: How America's Largest M...
2024-08-2057 min
PivotFuture of Travel: Is High-Speed Rail Finally Happening in the U.S.?All aboard for Pivot's special series on the future of travel, examining the big changes coming to the way we get around the world! Will 2024 be the year that high-speed rail becomes reality in the United States? How did the U.S. get so far behind other countries? And what cities have the best train systems? On this episode, Kara and Scott talk trains with Yonah Freemark, the principal research associate at the Urban Institute, who also writes the blog, The Transport Politic.Follow Yonah at @yfreemarkFollow us on Instagram and Threads at @pivotpodcastofficial....
2024-06-1927 min
YIMBY Nation (Yes, In My Back Yard)Season 2 Episode 1: ‘Unequal Ground’: The Impact of Unjust Policies on Access to Educational Opportunities, Upward Mobility, and Better Quality of LifeSend us a textThe housing and communities that people live in can influence nearly every aspect of their lives; from where they work to how they get there, the quality of the schools in their area, and even their longevity. Today, we take a deep dive into how zoning, land use policies, and efforts like NIMBYism affect affordability, equality in education, and economic mobility in our communities. Joining us to discuss this topic is Yonah Freemark, a Principal Research Associate at the Metropolitan Housing and Communities Policy Center at the Urban Institute. Yonah is the Research...
2024-02-2949 minTalking Headways: A Streetsblog PodcastEpisode 471: Annual Prediction Show with Yonah Freemark Part 2Prediction Time! This week on part 2 of our chat with Yonah Freemark, we score our transportation predictions from last year and make new ones for 2025. We talk about the Roosevelt Subway, Transit agency bailouts, open gangway trains, and coming transit elections and extensions. You can find Transit Explorer through the Transport Politic. OOO Follow us on twitter @theoverheadwire Follow us on Mastadon theoverheadwire@sfba.social Follow us on Threads @theoverheadwire Support the show on Patreon http://patreon.com/theoverheadwire Buy books on our Bo...
2024-02-2233 minTalking Headways: A Streetsblog PodcastEpisode 470: Annual Prediction Show with Yonah Freemark Part 1This week on the Talking Headways podcast we're joined once again by transportation and housing expert Yonah Freemark. In part 1 we talk about the equitable distribution of transportation grants, potential for flex funding for transit, and our annual transit openings discussion. You can find Transit Explorer through the Transport Politic. OOO Follow us on twitter @theoverheadwire Follow us on Mastadon theoverheadwire@sfba.social Follow us on Threads @theoverheadwire Support the show on Patreon http://patreon.com/theoverheadwire Buy books on our Bookshop.org A...
2024-02-1541 min
High FrequencyFinale: Crisis and Opportunity: Transforming How We Fund Transit with Yonah FreemarkIn this episode of "High Frequency," host Kapish Singla explores the state of transit funding with Yonah Freemark, senior research associate at the Urban Institute. Based on insights from the recent Urban Institute report, “Surmounting the Fiscal Cliff,” the interview delves into the reasons behind transit’s current fiscal cliff, and the policy choices that have perpetually put transit agency finances on precarious footing. The episode advances sustainable funding solutions that could finally disrupt this vicious cycle of underinvestment, and ensure that the current crisis is transit’s last fiscal cliff.“Transit is key to our society, and transit...
2023-12-1517 min
Science VsWho Killed Affordable Housing?Housing has gotten SO expensive — for many of us, buying something seems totally out of reach. And even renting a decent apartment is a struggle these days. Who, or what, is to blame for these high prices? We track down the culprit with urban planner Prof. Nicole Gurran and attorney Prof. Sara Bronin. Find our transcript here: https://bit.ly/ScienceVsAffordableHousingIn this episode, we cover:(00:00) The Crime(03:48) Suspect 1: Greedy developers(07:20) Suspect 2: AirBnB(14:20) Suspect 3: Zoning(24:00) The Twist!
2023-06-2235 min
Plot of LandEp. 7: The Sad Part Is That It Was SuccessfulReporters: Jameela Hammond @JameelaHammond, Melissa Fundira @MFundiraInterviewees:Ted Liebman FAIA ; Twitter: @liebman_tYonah Freemark, Ph.D.; Twitter: @yfreemarkRosemary Ndubuizu, Ph.D.Kim Phillips-Fein, Ph.D., kimphillipsfein.comDorothy Davis @diasporantouchMarion Ntiru @marionntiruResidents past and presentSasha Ross *Note: residentLionel Fundira *Note: residentCourtney Francis *Note: previous residentBarbara Spiegel *Note: residentRita Ombele *Note:previous residentNikki Leopold *Note: residentEneaqua Lewis *Note: residentLudi Nsimba *Note: residentMorgan Elinson *Note: former residentJudith Berdy *Note: residentMarie Orraca *Note: resident
2023-06-161h 21
Plot of LandEp. 6: Tucked Between Those Two BoroughsReporters: Jameela Hammond @JameelaHammond, Melissa Fundira @MFundiraInterviewees:Ted Liebman, FAIA; Twitter: @liebman_tYonah Freemark, Ph.D.; Twitter: @yfreemarkRosemary Ndubuizu, Ph.D. Affiliate Twitter: @GU_AFAMKim Phillips-Fein, Ph.D.; Affiliate Twitter: @CUHistoryDeptMarion Ntiru @marionntiruResidents past and presentSasha Ross *Note: residentLionel Fundira *Note: residentCourtney Francis *Note: previous residentBarbara Spiegel *Note: residentRita Ombele *Note:previous residentNikki Leopold *Note: residentMarie Orraca *Note: residentEneaqua Lewis *Note: residentLudi Nsimba *Note: residentMorgan Elinson *Note: former residentJudith Berdy *Note: residentAndrew Kerr *Note: former resident
2023-06-161h 05
Future MemoryPlot of Land - Ep. 7: The Sad Part Is That It Was SuccessfulWe’re looking at what happened after subsidized affordable housing programs expired in the 2000s on New York’s Roosevelt Island. Some residents managed to buy in, build equity and stability. Others experienced precarious tenancy or displacement while an ongoing influx of wealthier residents is changing the face of the island. We ask the question, can Roosevelt Island’s past guide state and federal investments in multi-racial, multi-income neighborhoods for the future? Reporters: Jameela Hammond @JameelaHammond, Melissa Fundira @MFundiraInterviewees:Ted Liebman FAIA ; Twitter: @liebman_tYonah Freemark, Ph.D.; Twitter: @yfreemarkRosemary Ndubuizu, Ph.D.Kim Phillips-Fein, Ph.D., kimphillipsfein.comDoro...
2023-04-201h 21
Future MemoryPlot of Land - Ep. 6: Tucked Between Those Two BoroughsNew York’s Roosevelt Island was imagined as an idyllic, multi-racial, multi-income community, developed as part of the social housing movement in the 60s and 70s. But by the 1980s, socially-minded investments in housing were overtaken by neoliberal policy. We talk to current-day and displaced residents to see how this change affected them, while looking back from the point of divergence to find the decisions that created and dismantled housing as a human right. Reporters: Jameela Hammond @JameelaHammond, Melissa Fundira @MFundiraInterviewees:Ted Liebman, FAIA; Twitter: @liebman_tYonah Freemark, Ph.D.; Twitter: @yfreemarkRosemary Ndubuizu, Ph.D. Affiliate Twitter: @GU_AFA...
2023-04-201h 05Talking Headways: A Streetsblog PodcastEpisode 426: The Annual Prediction Show with Yonah FreemarkThis week Yonah Freemark of the Urban Institute is BACK for the Annual Prediction Show. This year we chat about our predictions from last year and next year of course, but also regional rail in France, interesting transportation projects happening around the world, and the high cost and management of big transit projects. OOO Follow us on twitter @theoverheadwire Follow us on Mastadon theoverheadwire@sfba.social Support the show on Patreon http://patreon.com/theoverheadwire Buy books on our Bookshop.org Affiliate site! And get ou...
2023-03-301h 03
ShelterforceFederal and State Dollars Could Be Used to Force Change in Exclusionary TownsStrict zoning policies help keep housing unaffordable. But there are strategies governments can implement to change exclusionary housing policies and promote the construction of more affordable housing.
Gabriella Garriga reads, "Federal and State Dollars Could Be Used to Force Change in Exclusionary Towns," a piece she co-wrote with Luisa Godinez-Puig and Yonah Freemark.
Read the full story at https://shelterforce.org/2023/03/23/federal-and-state-dollars-could-be-used-to-force-change-in-exclusionary-towns/
2023-03-2407 min
Booked on PlanningWalkable City (Part 2)In 2012, Jeff’s book sounded the alarm that cars are the central problem of American life, and that making downtown more walkable is the necessary fix for the typical American City. Ten years later, following COVID, the rise of ride share, and the escalating climate crisis, Speck returned with a 10th Anniversary edition that assesses the impacts of these events and the changes that have taken place since the original book was published.Links:Walkable City Rules: Jeff’s deep dive book from 2018 with more details on how to design walkable citiesHuman Transit is a book by J...
2023-03-2130 min
Booked on PlanningWalkable City (Part 1)In 2012, Jeff’s book sounded the alarm that cars are the central problem of American life, and that making downtown more walkable is the necessary fix for the typical American City. Ten years later, following COVID, the rise of ride share, and the escalating climate crisis, Speck returned with a 10th Anniversary edition that assesses the impacts of these events and the changes that have taken place since the original book was published.Links:Walkable City Rules: Jeff’s deep dive book from 2018 with more details on how to design walkable citiesHuman Transit is a book by J...
2023-03-1437 minTalking Headways: A Streetsblog PodcastEpisode 381: A Next Generation Transport PolicyThis week we're joined by Harriet Tregoning, Director at NUMO, and Yonah Freemark, a senior research associate at the Urban Institute to talk about their report, Charting Out a Next-Generation, Place-Based Federal Transportation Policy. We talk what needs to change about federal policy and the entities that need to pursue it. Follow us on twitter @theoverheadwire Support the show on Patreon http://patreon.com/theoverheadwire Buy books on our Bookshop.org Affiliate site!
2022-05-0551 min
The Mpact Podcast (Formerly Railvolution)Episode 54: Mode Shift for Federal FundingThis month on the Rail~Volution podcast we're joined by Harriet Tregoning, Director at NUMO, and Yonah Freemark, a senior research associate at the Urban Institute to talk about their report, Charting Out a Next-Generation, Place-Based Federal Transportation Policy. We talk what needs to change about federal policy and the entities that need to pursue it.
2022-04-0750 minTalking Headways: A Streetsblog PodcastEpisode 372: The Annual Prediction Show with Yonah FreemarkThis week we're joined by Yonah Freemark, a senior research associate at the Urban Institute. We chat about the impacts of the pandemic on office work, rethinking federal transportation policy, and make our annual predictions on next year's transportation policies and projects. Follow us on twitter @theoverheadwire Shop authors at our Bookshop shop. Support the show at http://patreon.com/theoverheadwire
2022-03-031h 01
Racial Reckoning: The Arc of JusticeCorporate Landlords Buy Up Twin Cities Homes, Outcompeting Potential Black HomeownersThe Twin Cities have the largest gap in homeownership between Black and white residents - 51% - and the gap is widening. The reason? Gentrification and the rise of single family rentals owned by investor companies.--Tiffany Bui reports: In the Twin Cities, the gap between the number of Black residents who own their home and white residents is the widest in the country.Researchers from the Urban Institute found that, Black homeownership has declined dramatically since 2000. This resulted in a 51 percentage point difference between the two gr...
2021-07-0901 min
Monday Morning QBFriday Evening Fireside - Ep 15Welcome to Friday Evening Fireside, a long-form version of Monday Morning QB. Today's edition features three extended interview cuts: WPFW News Director Askia Muhammad with scholar and activist Phyllis Bennis on Benjamin Netanyahu's political future; reporter Chris Bangert-Drowns with urban policy expert Yonah Freemark on Biden administration plans to shrink the racial wealth gap; and reporter Amara Evering with Shelbi Day, Chief Policy Officer at Family Equality, on LGBTQ rights and religious freedoms at the Supreme Court.
2021-06-131h 05
The Climate PodJeffrey Sachs on Biden's Infrastructure Goals | Yonah Freemark on American Jobs Plan's Transportation PrioritiesThis week, two expert guests, Professor Jeffrey Sachs and Yonah Freemark, join the show to talk about the American Jobs Plan and how we can better decarbonize our economy with smart infrastructure spending. Professor Sachs explains how to best aim spending plans to create sustainable jobs, build up a green economy, and reduce inequality in the process. Freemark tells us why transportation emissions keep increasing, how to get fewer cars on the road, and the importance of federal and local coordination on transportation plans. About Our Guests: Jeffrey Sachs is the Director of the Center for Sustainable De...
2021-04-071h 04
Landscape Architecture PodcastBilly Fleming Wilks Family Director, Ian L. McHarg Center Billy Fleming is the Wilks Family Director of the Ian L. McHarg Center in the Weitzman School of Design, a senior fellow with Data for Progress, and co-director of the "climate + community project." His fellowship with Data for Progress has focused on the built environment impacts of climate change, and resulted most prominently in the publication of low-carbon public housing policy briefs tied to the “Green New Deal for Public Housing Act” introduced in 2019. In his role at the McHarg Center, Billy is co-editor of the forthcoming book An Adaptation Bluep...
2021-04-0341 minTalking Headways: A Streetsblog PodcastEpisode 326: The Annual Prediction Show! with Yonah FreemarkThis week we're joined again by Yonah Freemark for the annual prediction show! Yonah chats with us about his new job at the Urban Institute, projects added to his transit inventory, and we make predictions about the coming infrastructure bill.
2021-03-251h 02
RTP's Fourth Branch PodcastDeep Dive 157 – Regulating Land Use During a PandemicThe COVID-19 pandemic has caused significant changes in urban land use. Where possible, companies have shifted to partial or full remote work, leaving some office buildings to sit empty. Firms in the service industry have sought to move dining, working out, and other activities outdoors where possible. It remains to be seen whether some of all of these changes in behavior will be permanent. What role do policymakers have to play in facilitating efficient land use during this uncertain time?Featuring:- Yonah Freemark, Senior Research Associate, Urban Institute- Emily Hamilton, Senior Research Fellow, Mercatus...
2021-01-261h 00
Livable CityIs Density Making us Sick? - Yonah FreemarkThe debate is not a new one and yet it feels like the world wonders for the first time, do dense cities inherently make us more prone to becoming infected with something like a Coronavirus? It turns out, the answer isn’t as simple as it might at first seem to be. I debate this with special guest Yonah Freemark. But the conversation still focuses almost solely on the inherent dangers of living in dense places. The conversation needs to evolve and mature. Livable City seeks to call us towards making cities far more livable, mo...
2020-04-1355 min
Business Scholarship PodcastYonah Freemark on the 2020 Crisis and TransitYonah Freemark, a PhD candidate in urban policy at MIT, joins the Business Scholarship Podcast to discuss the 2020 crisis, its impact on transit, and what should be done to preserve the economic role of transit.
Guest co-host Gregory Shill, associate professor of law at the University of Iowa, joins host Andrew Jennings, a teaching fellow and lecturer in law at Stanford Law School.
2020-03-2328 minTalking Headways: A Streetsblog PodcastEpisode 276: The Annual Prediction Show with Yonah FreemarkThis week we're joined by Yonah Freemark of the Transport Politic for his eighth appearance on the show. We look back at past transit predictions and then make a few more for next year. We talk about building subways around the country and cheer ourselves up about the state of transit as well.
2020-03-1949 min
Travel TomorrowI Only Understand "Train Station"No pants on the subway, train talk with Yonah Freemark, and the Germans know what to say when you don't understand a thing. Instagram | Twitter | Facebook | TravelTomorrowPod@gmail.com
2020-01-2139 min
The Movement Podcast046 All Transit is Local with Yonah FreemarkFrom his academic research at MIT to his blog The Transport Politic, Yonah Freemark has tackled a key question: what can communities and elected officials do to ensure that their local transit projects are successful and meet their community goals?
2019-12-2226 min
Buildings On AirEpisode 26 - March 16, 2019On this episode we introduce a new segment featuring the inimitable Anjulie Rao. Anjulie and Keefer discuss the piece “Refusal After Refusal” by Adjustments Agency, which appeared in Harvard Design Magazine as well as the article “The “B” Word: How a More Universal Concept of Beauty Can Reshape Architecture” by Mark Alan Hewitt in Common Edge.Next Keefer opens up the mailbag with Ann Lui and Craig Reschke of Future Firm. Send in your listener questions to buildingsonair@gmail.com for us to answer!Lastly, we interview Yonah Freemark to discuss his research on upzoning which set th...
2019-03-2100 minTalking Headways: A Streetsblog PodcastEpisode 224: The Annual Yonah Freemark Prediction ShowThis week we're joined by perennial favorite Yonah Freemark of the Transport Politic. We rate his predictions from last year and give predictions for next year, some of which are already in peril! He chats about his zoning paper that has gotten a LOT of attention from housing advocates, high speed rail and California's current dilemma, and Amazon's New York departure. For Yonah's previous episodes, check out 45, 61, 88, 132, or 169
2019-03-0755 minTalking Headways: A Streetsblog PodcastEpisode 169: Annual Prediction Show with Yonah FreemarkThis week we're joined by Yonah Freemark of the Transport Politic for our annual prediction extravaganza! Find out how last year's predictions held up and whether you agree with this year's thoughts on Montreal transit and Bus Rapid Transit in Boston. We also discuss the leaked infrastructure plan from the new administration and talk about our favorite writers focused on urban issues.
2018-01-2548 minTalking Headways: A Streetsblog PodcastEpisode 132: Annual Transit Prediction Show with Yonah FreemarkThis week we're joined by Yonah Freemark of the Transport Politic and Streetsblog's new series Getting Transit Right. This is our annual prediction show where we break down the results of last year's transit predictions and make some more for 2017. In between Yonah and I talk about high speed rail, transit and development, Elon Musk's crazy tunnel ideas, and the future of federal policy.
2017-02-2344 minTalking Headways: A Streetsblog PodcastEpisode 88: The Year in Transit Starts #3 with Yonah FreemarkYonah Freemark joins us to talk about his new mapping tool Transit Explorer and the big transit projects that are opening or under construction in the next year.
2016-01-2840 min
Talking Headways: A Streetsblog PodcastEpisode 45: The Year in Transit Starts (feat. Yonah Freemark)This episode pretty much sums up why this podcast exists in the first place. You thought you knew something about transit? Listening to Yonah Freemark of the Transport Politic and Jeff Wood of the Overhead Wire (and my lovely co-host) geek out on transit starts of 2014 and 2015 is a humbling, and surprisingly animating, experience.
You can study for this episode by reading Yonah's seventh annual compendium of "Openings and Construction Starts Planned for 2015" or you can come straight here and hear him tell it (and then argue with Jeff about it).
You thought...
2015-01-1238 min
Chicago Policy ReviewPolicy Radio | Yonah Freemark on Transit and Infrastructure DevelopmentIn this week’s episode of Chicago Policy Radio, Jim Howes sits down with Yonah Freemark and turns the gears about transit-oriented development and infrastructure investment and how these concepts fit into the present-day narrative on cities.
2014-04-1800 minTalking Headways: A Streetsblog PodcastEpisode 6: Fifty Minutes Talking About Transit in the U.S. and We Never Mention New YorkThis week, podcast co-host Jeff Wood and I got to chat with The Transport Politic's Yonah Freemark about the outlook for new transit projects in 2014. Building off Yonah's thorough (and colorful!) outline of the year's expected transit starts, we talked about the projects we were most excited about, including some that have been a long time coming. And we take a look back at what kind of year 2013 was for transit.
This conversation was so good we went over our usual half-hour time slot and riffed for a good 50 minutes.
2014-01-1350 min