Recorded May 20, 2020

Released May 27, 2020

Read a transcript, with show notes, here.

Welcome to a podcast about urbanism with zero white men in the room! In this premiere episode of RE: Innovation we introduce ourselves and the show, and ask, are Stay Healthy Streets effective, or just sexy?

Mentioned in this episode:

Early Positive Returns on Stay Healthy Streets (The Urbanist)

Some Cities Getting Open Streets Right (Streetsblog USA)

Praise and concerns in District 2 in Seattle (Seattle City Council briefing, May 18, cued to Tammy Morales, D2 city council rep)

Oakland Starts with 74 miles of Open Streets (The Mercury News)

Open Streets in NYC (Gothamist)

Comparing Seattle’s Neighborhood Greenways, the basis for Stay Healthy Streets, with Portland’s 35-year record establishing Neighborhood Greenways. (Seattle DOT, Portland Bureau of Transportation)

Bike Boom in the US (The Guardian)

Find It Fix It, Seattle’s app for reporting infrastructure issues. AKA “FiFi”(City of Seattle)

• Is your city doing good work vetting new tools and tech?
• What’s on your wishlist for a new tool or tech that would meet the “effective, not just sexy” criteria?
• What new tech ideas or implementations have you seen recently that are definitely more sexy than effective?
• Share it all with us at @Jazzyspraxis, @TheUrbanAce, and @SheRidesABike on Twitter.