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In his final episode as host, Josh Cohen reflects and offers gratitude for his three years hosting The Movement Podcast.
In the array of changes necessary to avert climate disaster, the Institute for Transportation and Development Policy’s Heather Thompson believes that we will need not only electrification and density, but also experimentation and political will.
As Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti’s transportation manager, Julia Campbell ensures that LA’s role as a transportation laboratory welcomes all modes, an approach shaped by her experience growing up and attending graduate school in LA.
In order to enable an “avalanche of opportunity” that the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law could allow, former US Secretary of Transportation Anthony Foxx believes that we first need to proactively address the systems and processes that led to our current situation.
Few public transit agencies dedicate an employee to improve how riders experience the system each day. Danny Levy of the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority tackled this unique role by mapping the customer experience and communicating the “why” behind projects.
Experience as a public transit executive influences how Ben Birnbaum of Keyframe Capital now makes investment decisions that shape what the future of mobility, electrification, and automation looks like.
Nedra Deadwyler’s recognition that understanding history is required to build the future led to her creation of Civil Bikes, a provider of bike and walking tours in Atlanta that enables reflection and connection.
Joe Regier of the University of Maryland, Baltimore County uses transit as a way to introduce the university—and its diversity, intelligence, and amenities—to the communities that surround the school.
From mobility entrepreneur to city official to now non-profit executive, Stacey Matlen’s transportation journey now includes helping entrepreneurs navigate complex procurements in order to solve the biggest challenges facing public transit at the Partnership for New York City.
Janet Attarian of SmithGroup believes the human side of our communities is what allows us to build trust, show empathy for each other, and integrate that sense of place into wherever we live and the mobility systems that serve us.
For Stacy Thompson of Boston’s LivableStreets Alliance, a successful street is one that you can use safely and enjoyably, without even having to think about it, just like you get running water from the tap or access to reliable weather on your phone.
The Association for Commuter Transportation’s David Straus explains how Covid-19 has upended how many people get to work, opening up unparalleled opportunity as well as cause for concern for proponents of Transportation Demand Management.
Mobility as a Service, though attractive in its promise to increase mobility access, has proven elusive in practice. In a special episode from Pittsburgh, key stakeholders discuss the creation and implementation of North America’s first comprehensive Mobility as a Service project, Move PGH.
How you define innovation will obviously impact how you implement it. Timothy Papandreou of Emerging Transport Advisors took a different approach to innovation at LA Metro, SF Muni, and Waymo to ensure that innovation solved real problems.
What does it take for a transit agency to win major industry awards twice in three years? Joanna Pinkerton reveals how the Central Ohio Transit Authority adapted and overcame major challenges, including a global pandemic, since her appointment as President and CEO in 2018.
Philadelphia leaders learned a lot of lessons from the 21 communities that launched a community bikeshare system before they did. Andrew Stober explains what the City of Philadelphia did differently prior to launch to ensure that the system met the needs of the community.
Just what are 15-minute cities and what does it mean for planning, community engagement, housing, and mobility? Dan Reed of Toole Design Group shares their perspective on what we’re missing when we distill complex planning issues into pithy concepts like 15-minute cities.
The peril of climate change inspired Meg Merritt of Movitas Mobility’s entry into the public transit industry and continues to motivate her fight to change how we incentivize and penalize different transit modes.
Tomika Monterville of the San Antonio Transportation Department takes us inside her journey to helm this new department, why she’s so excited about San Antonio, and what it’s going to take to be successful there.
According to Mike McGinn, executive director of America Walks and former mayor of Seattle, walking is not just about sidewalk infrastructure, but how we express ourselves as a community and move about that community with dignity.
On issues of zoning, housing, and transportation, Greater Greater Washington’s policy manager Alex Baca recognizes that while the decisions made are political, the outcomes she wants are simply the ability for all to exist and move with dignity.
If we want better mobility in our communities, TransitCenter’s Steven Higashide, author of Better Buses, Better Cities, believes better transit policy starts with a broad multi-racial coalition and ends with buses providing more access to opportunity for all.
Both a provoker of bold ideas and an implementer of practical ones, Geraldine Gardner of the Centralina Regional Council dives into what’s necessary to make regionalism work for over 2 million people across 9 counties surrounding Charlotte, NC.
L’erin reflects on her time as co-host of The Movement Podcast and highlights some things she’s learned and episodes that will stick with her.
In part 2 of a special 2-episode series on mobility access for people with disabilities, Anna Zivarts of the Disability Mobility Initiative at Disability Rights Washington recognizes the limitations on data in her advocacy by complementing it with lived experiences and stories. Comment end
In part 1 of a special 2-episode series focused on the lived experiences of people with disabilities, Zack Hurtz, Micah Lusignan, Krystal Monteros, and Tanisha Sepulveda share their everyday mobility challenges and what they believe is needed for equitable access to mobility for all.
Executive Director of the Alliance for a Just Society, LeeAnn Hall reminds us that it is people’s lived experiences that help define what barriers to access exist and highlights the importance of community leadership to illuminate the solutions.
We won’t achieve equitable mobility without involving local government. Co-host of the GovLove podcast Ben Kittelson takes us inside City Hall to break down how funding decisions are made at the local level and what you can do to change them.
Providing mobility options in the Cincinnati metro area that has over 200 different jurisdictions requires Andy Aiello of the Transit Authority of Northern Kentucky and Wade Johnston of Green Umbrella to show how all those communities benefit both from working together and connection to each other.
Ashton Simpson leads Oregon Walks, a non-profit organization that is advocating for everyone’s right to roam, a right that is too often obscured by political dithering and a reluctance to listen directly to those impacted by unequal access to mobility.
In a special episode celebrating some of the guest teachers of the upcoming Unurbanist Assembly, Mouchka Heller and Jose Richard Aviles explain how equitable access to mobility comes from finally starting to bring unheard voices to the table.
The Shared-Use Mobility Center’s CEO Benjie de la Peña shares how the market is constantly evolving to allow mobility to connect us to opportunity and community, from informal transportation throughout the Global South to the latest in shared micromobility in the US.
Though BikeWalkKC spearheaded the advocacy on decriminalizing walking and biking in Kansas City, they didn’t go it alone. Michael Kelley breaks down the process BikeWalkKC used to change city laws that were inequitably enforced and didn’t improve safety.
Reflecting on his 10 years as CEO of Rail~Volution, Dan Bartholomay highlights the importance of vision and true community engagement to create the alignment —and energy—required for truly impactful transportation projects.
Not only has Mitchell Silver prioritized equitable access to the 14% of NYC land that encompasses its parks, playgrounds, and recreational facilities in his role as commissioner of NYC Parks and Recreation, but he’s endeavored to make the spaces a place for joy and healing.
Most shared mobility systems like bikeshare weren’t started with equity as a foundational element. For those systems, Waffiyyah Murray and the Better Bike Share Partnership stand by to help ensure equitable access to mobility.
As founder of the Queer Advocacy and Knowledge Exchange, Guillermo Díaz-Fañas is working to ensure that the important work of designing infrastructure is done in a way that doesn’t just respond to issues like climate resilience, but to the humans who will you use it.
Implementing regional policy changes doesn’t happen overnight. Chrissy Mancini Nichols shares the little steps she took over a number of years to make major changes to how Chicago funds transportation.
Jameson Auten, Deputy CEO and Chief Operating Officer of the Kansas City Area Transportation Authority, understands that innovation is a trial and error process, and that things will get messier before they get better, but keeping your eye on the outcome, not the process, is the key to success.
Oonee’s Shabazz Stuart celebrates how cities are prioritizing safe, protected bike lanes in their communities, but, as he’s found out several times, if bike infrastructure stops at the street, bike riders may not have a bike when they return from work, school, or an errand.
Director of Transportation for the city of Somerville, Massachusetts Brad Rawson shares what makes Somerville so unique and how they are centering equity in their work by using science and data to remedy systemic injustices in transportation.
Across hundreds of guests and topics, Jeff Wood of The Overhead Wire and the Talking Headways Podcast has learned some fundamental lessons about infrastructure, access, and the nuance necessary to have a productive conversation about a complex topic like transportation.
Move LA founder Denny Zane was instrumental in getting transit funding measures passed in Los Angeles County. He shares the importance of seeing opportunities in otherwise disappointing turnouts to make improvements and try again.
SEPTA’s Leslie Richards has led organizations at the local, regional, and state levels cognizant of two things: that more women should be involved in public service and that the best way to lead is by listening.
Julia Thayne’s and Lilly Shoup’s careers have straddled the public and private sectors. Now, they are building Los Angeles’ Urban Movement Labs in the same way to solve transportation challenges for Angelenos.
As someone who has found her home in public service, Anita Cozart of the District of Columbia’s Office of Planning recognizes that while there is power in one voice, true change requires collective action and a heaping dose of courage.
In a special two-year anniversary episode, L’erin and Josh get updates from former guests, highlight some episodes that resonate with them, and celebrate the power of using one’s voice to advocate for an equitable, accessible, and verdant mobility future.
For Remix’s Rachel Zack and TransForm’s Jamario Jackson, the combination of technology and advocacy to advance mobility justice is more than an academic exercise; it’s a tool to achieve more equitable outcomes, if we’re willing to do the work.
To truly solve climate and poverty issues, the Shared Use Mobility Center’s Sharon Feigon believes it’s not enough to increase access to shared and low-impact mobility options like transit, bikes, and scooters. It will truly require changing how we do things in areas far beyond mobility.
L’erin and Josh discuss the week’s biggest news, including the Senate confirmation of Mayor Pete Buttigieg as the new Secretary of the US Department, parking minimums in Berkeley, and how we could drastically increase the usefulness of public transportation with a relatively small sum.
David Zipper shares how perverse incentives and negative externalities are part of the reason US transportation policy prioritizes decisions that benefit individuals and not those that benefit communities like public transit, sidewalks, and bike lanes.
Lessons in civic engagement from his immigrant parents and early rides on Amtrak and BART in the 1970s shaped California State Transportation Agency Secretary David Kim’s commitment to both public service and equitable mobility which he’s using today to transform the lives of all Californians.
Transit advocate Sunday Parker uses storytelling and pictures to help others overcome the lack of empathy for the systemic and ongoing barriers that impact public transit riders with disabilities, even 30 years after the Americans with Disabilities Act.
Michigan’s Lieutenant Governor Garlin Gilchrist and Chief Mobility Officer Trevor Pawl share how Michigan views the present and future of mobility, which combines the power of technology with ensuring those most impacted by change are involved in the process from the start.
Barb Chamberlain, director of the Active Transportation Division at Washington State DOT, shares how her upbringing shaped her desire to advocate for those whose voices are often ignored and to search for commonalities in order to get things accomplished.
Especially during COVID-19, Benita Hussain shares how getting 100% of US residents with park and greenspace access within a 10 minute walk of their homes is more important than ever and requires leaders to give decision making and design to the community itself.
Az Chougle, executive director of Transit Alliance Miami, has learned that advocacy is a “grand experiment in psychology” where clear goals, crisp communication, and a foundation of equity are necessary to advance your agenda.
After being the victim of an automobile-bicycle crash, Tara Pham co-founded street sensor startup Numina to give communities a better way to understand how people were using the street so that planners can create safer, more equitable, and more livable cities for its most vulnerable users.
Daniel Firth has spent his career helping communities around the world study and implement congestion pricing, one of the most politically challenging transportation tools available. One of the most critical lessons he’s learned can be applied beyond congestion pricing: start with why.
Being an advocate can be scary, especially when you are challenging those in power. Lynda Lopez has spent her career as an advocate confronting and overcoming that fear to both change narratives and center those who are most affected by policy.
As Chief Deputy Secretary of the North Carolina Department of Transportation, David Howard must balance not only the needs of both urban and rural transportation users, but also the potential of innovation with the foundation of transit networks.
The principles of good strength training that Paul Supawanich teaches moonlighting also have served him well in his day jobs as a transportation planner, consultant, technology executive, and, most recently, transportation advisor to San Francisco Mayor London Breed.
As co-founder of community engagement software, PublicInput.com, Graham Stone believes that equity is at the root of the success of any community, and to achieve that, those in power must listen obsessively to the people they serve.
From tactical applications on community engagement and a new car-free development in North Carolina to racial inequities in the streets of Portland and Los Angeles, L’erin Jensen and Josh Cohen cover the week’s news and learn just how much it costs to build a single parking spot.
As a former consultant himself, David Fields knows the risks of communities not aligning around clear goals and values before starting a project, a lesson he’s bringing to his new role as Houston’s first Chief Transportation Planner.
While once thought to be a problem for our grandchildren, climate change is here now. Amanda Eaken of the Bloomberg American Cities Climate Challenge shares how the best leaders are not only attacking climate change today, but rethinking community engagement for the long term.
Josh and L’erin discuss connections between Leadership Upside Down and recent news stories, including how advocacy groups engage with their communities, Denver’s reckoning with environmental racism, California going electric, and how we price our streets.
Amenities that make communities more attractive, more walkable, and better places to live can also lead to gentrification. Dr. Mariela Alfonzo of State of Place shares why using data to make better decisions—and thus create better policy—can mitigate the perils of rising housing costs and displacement.
Dr. Tom Sanchez has spent over two decades studying how to create more livable cities. In that time, he’s learned that the traditional ways we’ve approached problem-solving hasn’t worked, and it’s time for experts of all areas to combine their knowledge to create the equitable cities that work for everyone.
Delegate Robbyn Lewis believes we’re valuing the wrong things like how fast cars can move instead of how healthy our communities are. She shares her advocacy story and what she’s doing now in the Maryland House of Delegates to ensure that our streets are places of community, not division.
Like many of us, mobility shaped L’erin Jensen’s life, from public transit in middle school to an electric scooter last week. In her new role as co-host of The Movement Podcast, she’ll leverage this life experience and her journalism credentials to advance mobility equity.
As the co-chairs of Boston’s New Urban Mechanics, Nigel Jacob and Kris Carter are connecting the city’s strengths of innovation and creativity to an experimental approach to learning in order to make living and working in Boston better for all its residents.
In a complex world, we have to acknowledge that we are not, as activist Audre Lorde said, living single issue lives, meaning our solutions can’t be one-dimensional either. Ariel Ward and Brytanee Brown of At the Intersections share that the equitable solutions lie at the “epicenter of our complexities.”
During James Rojas’s formal planning education and the beginning of his career, he found that planning tools relied on maps and infrastructure and overlooked the role of memory, creativity, and art, an oversight that excluded people and undermined what truly makes a city unique.
Atlanta’s Center for Civic Innovation once earned the imprimatur of “good trouble” from the late Representative John Lewis. Founder and Executive Director Rohit Malhotra shares the story of the Center and their mission to improve equality and build trust between communities and government.
As the American Public Transportation Association’s policy director, Darnell Grisby understands the unique role that transit can play to increase access to opportunity not only for riders, but also for the next generation of diverse industry leaders.
Throughout Naomi Doerner’s career and community involvement, she has married transportation and mobility justice to not only better understand community needs, but to begin to shift power from dominant structures back to the community and its constituents.
Over the past four years and across 10 cities, Lynn Ross of Spirit for Change Consulting has helped reimagine our public spaces for increased engagement, equity, environmental sustainability and economic development. A key lesson: co-creation is the only way forward.
If we want to overcome systemic racism as well as COVID-19 financial impacts, Tennessee Department of Transportation Multimodal Services Director Suzanne Carlson believes we’ll need not individual leaders, but a network of great leaders communicating and supporting each other.
What happens if you do planning work not from behind a desk, but in front of a community? That’s what self-described street level researcher Charles Brown does, allowing him to hear the voices of the people who are truly the experts in their communities.
Three women—Dr. Destiny Thomas, Tamika Butler, and Sahra Sulaiman— who have been doing the work on the inequity in our communities share why reform isn’t enough if we want to eliminate the harm, marginalization, and disenfranchisement of communities of color.
Even before the racial justice protests, Seattle used their Racial Equity Toolkit to help prioritize the 20+ miles of Stay Healthy Streets in response to COVID-19. Still, Seattle Department of Transportation Director Sam Zimbabwe wants to do more to center Black voices in the process.
If we are to truly bring about change and address the barriers to inclusive, equitable and healthy communities, Veronica Davis of consulting firm Nspiregreen says we need to get at the root cause of the most challenging problems in our communities.
To move forward critical mobility goals, Sam Schwartz Engineering’s Joe Iacobucci has found that the best leaders not only have plenty of ideas, but also an understanding of their region’s unique needs and strengths.
For over half her life, Lateefah Simon has served her community as a civil rights and racial justice advocate. Now, as president of the Bay Area Rapid Transit Board of Directors, she brings that same dedication to ensuring that everyone in the Bay Area-—regardless of income—can access mobility.
Disability advocate, transportation planner and engineer, and transit nerd Chris Pangilinan shares an inside look at the work he’s done to improve access for those with mobility impairments and what is still left to do.
To help TransitCenter make cities more just and environmentally sustainable, Tabitha Decker is working to not only expand bus lanes and redesign NYC’s bus network, but also supporting transit agencies and advocates with research and policy recommendations.
Led by Karina Ricks, Pittsburgh’s Department of Mobility and Infrastructure is facilitating the creation of innovative mobility hubs and identifying clear principles for autonomous vehicle testing, all done in partnership with both the community and their private sector partners.
Understanding and investing in what makes NW Arkansas special is a key element of Jeremy Pate’s work at the Walton Family Foundation, one that has resulted in one of the nation’s best greenway and trail systems for users of all abilities and interests.
The last year for Uber and Lyft have been wild: going public, AB5 regulation in California, and now COVID-19 cratering demand. Harry Campbell of The Rideshare Guy shares what he thinks is necessary for ridesharing to survive this challenging time and thrive beyond it.
Eulois Cleckley provides an introduction to Denver’s new department of transportation and infrastructure that focuses on how things move—whether that’s people, vehicles, or water—as well as how he helps keep his team focused on the long term impact of their work.
You might think opening up 70+ miles of streets to the people would take a while, but Oakland mobility policy director Warren Logan shares how alignment—not agreement—helped the city move quickly during the COVID-19 pandemic to make the streets safer for everyone.
Shelley Poticha of the Natural Resources Defense Council works to create a just and equitable world and shares specific examples from Portland, Memphis, and San Antonio on how government and community leaders are working together to align the goals of the community.
Keith Benjamin is transitioning Charleston’s Traffic and Transportation department from one that focuses on maintenance to one that is mindfully using its power to expand access and increase equity, for city staff, vendors, and the community.
An already challenging time for micromobility has become even harder with COVID-19 limiting people’s movements in many cities and countries. But William Henderson, CEO of Ride Report, believes there are still blue skies ahead for cities, micromobility operators, and riders.
Like many industries, public transportation is adapting to the dramatic impact of COVID-19 on our communities. APTA President and CEO Paul Skoutelas shares how their team is supporting critical public transit needs, advocating for federal relief, and engaging with stakeholders.
Mike Lydon and Tony Garcia of Street Plans introduce Tactical Urbanism and how the process of trialing small, cost-effective changes in a community is sometimes more important than the finished product in creating lasting change in communities.
With training as a civil engineer, Toole Design Group’s Bill Schultheiss has a particular window into the responsibility and opportunities available to the profession of civil engineering to create safe streets for all.
Veronica Vanterpool’s experience as an advocate and board member at New York City’s MTA was grounded in equity and sustainability. Now as Chief Innovation Officer of the Delaware Transit Corporation, she’s challenging assumptions on what innovation actually is.
Underutilized public assets like parking lots or former government buildings in every community could be used for housing or redevelopment. Mariia Zimmerman from MZ Strategies shares what the best communities are doing to maximize the public benefit from these public lands.
Whether it was the development of the Indianapolis Cultural Trail or revamping the Central Indiana Community Foundation’s mission to overcome the scourge of systemic racism, Brian Payne’s bold moves are remaking how all residents of Indianapolis access opportunity.
Charlotte’s growth to become one of our nation’s largest cities has not been seamless. In a special episode, learn from some of Charlotte’s leaders and advocates on what is needed to build on its past as it looks to its future.
In just a few short years, how cities and regulators engage with shared mobility companies (and vice versa) has changed. Shared Mobility Strategies’ Pete Gould helps promising new mobility providers ensure they understand the needs and values of the public sector.
Kansas City council member Eric Bunch’s experience as a bus rider and community advocate shaped his resolution to not only make transit fare-free in KC, but to implement policy at the city level to help KCATA buses dwell less at stops and traffic signals.
Andreas Addison’s early-career experience deploying technology as a civic innovator provided key lessons and philosophies influencing his current effort as a Richmond City Council member to make Richmond’s streets safe for all.
Harriet Tregoning leads the New Urban Mobility Alliance, a coalition of public, private, and non-profit organizations shaping how technology can help create sustainable communities. But lessons from her career have shown that before you can apply technology, you first need a shared vision.
The end of the year is a great time to reflect, connect some dots from this year’s conversations, test out a new leadership framework, and share gratitude for a wonderful year building The Movement Podcast.
From 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?
With Southern California boasting both extraordinary congestion and strong political support for transit, Nadine Lee of LA Metro explains how to invest in not only innovation, but also the fundamentals of better transit service, all in an effort to create a transit system that riders love.
From Don Kostelec’s beginnings in the transportation planning field, he’s questioned the orthodoxy that many cities and states just accept about how streets should look. The result? He’s democratizing access for advocates everywhere to create safer communities.
To make a city that works for everyone, the nonprofit 8 80 cities asks that we start with the perspective of an 8 year old and an 80 year old. Amanda O’Rourke shares how 300 communities have engaged at a human level, prototyped a solution, and then scaled from there.
Government officials and advocates are not enough to make cities safe, healthy, and climate resilient. Liz Sisson from investment firm Urban US shares how she translates between the public and private sectors to help ensure city dwellers benefit from urban tech.
Before John Bauters was an elected official in Emeryville, California, he was an advocate. His work in social justice issues impacts how he approaches his role as a city councilmember and helps him identify tactical ways to achieve change in your community.
To build the economy of the future, Phoenix Mayor Kate Gallego manages one of our nation’s youngest and fastest growing cities with a long-term focus, a healthy investment in public transit, and the support of key community partners.
Nidhi Gulati’s work at Project for Public Spaces ensures that the needs of vulnerable populations like women, immigrants, and children are prioritized in how we design our cities and their systems, improving life for everyone.
Like access to mobility, access to lifelong learning has the potential to change lives. Lex Dennis of the Drucker Institute shares how they are working with residents of South Bend, IN to build a lifelong learning platform that is “radically accessible.
Jerome Horne’s love for transit started young so perhaps it’s no surprise that he not only rides transit daily, but he serves as IndyGo’s Ridership Experience Specialist. This role gives him a front-row seat for Indianapolis’s total mobility transformation.
If we are going to get where we want to go, Greg Lindsay thinks we’re going to need more than just courage. We’ll also need to keep the best minds in the public sector, new tools to co-design the future, and a reckoning for private sector actors not serving the public interest.
The gradual privatization of the streets and mobility over the last century has Leah Shahum, the founder and director of the Vision Zero Network, breaking down silos to give communities the tools to think more collectively about how people move.
In her policy roles at Lyft and Lime, Emily Castor Warren had a front row seat for two of the fastest technological adoptions in history: ridehailing and micromobility. The biggest challenge? Ensuring city alignment with the goals of these transportation.
Across the US, bus ridership is floundering. But instead of looking at this problem regionally, transit researcher Simon Berrebi studies bus ridership at a hyperlocal level and created a scalable way for the whole community to make their local transit better.
The San Francisco Bay Area has 8 million people jammed into nine counties, meaning it is not only ripe for public transit, but also ripe for separate fiefdoms by dozens of transit and shuttle systems. Seamless Bay Area’s Ian Griffiths thinks he knows the remedy.
Clear goals, a core value simple enough for everyone in the organization to understand, and a mindful investment in community engagement are what CEO Randy Clarke believes are the necessary elements for Austin-based CapMetro to build towards the future.
When the International Parking Institute recognized its members managed more than just parking, CEO Shawn Conrad helped the Institute not only add Mobility to its name, but also ensure that it’s at the table for important mobility technology conversations to come.
Imagine a mobility hub where you can find not only transportation, but also food, medical care, and other services. Tom Fisher of the Minnesota Design Center discusses his research into how to redesign government services to reflect how we actually live.
Despite advising on the advanced mobility section of Minneapolis’s Transportation Action Plan, Danielle Elkins didn’t start with the shiny technology, but instead with the foundational transit infrastructure that previous generations invested in.
Robin Hutcheson, the director of public works for Minneapolis, shares how the creation of the city’s Transportation Action Plan prioritizes equity, safety, and climate goals and ensures alignment with the Minneapolis 2040 comprehensive plan.
What could your community accomplish if it rethought how it engaged with its citizens on transportation, housing, and economic development? Heather Worthington shares how the City of Minneapolis approached community engagement for their comprehensive plan.
The board that oversees the MBTA operates differently than most public transit boards. Board member Monica Tibbits-Nutt highlights how the board was constructed, who the members represent, and how the board makes decisions to better serve the Boston area.
Public leaders are responsible for our most important community goods like transportation, schools, and greenspace. Leadership consultant Chris Hutchinson ensures leaders have the best tools to be effective and achieve the mobility and community outcomes we desire.
Why is US public transit successful in some places and not in others? Christof Spieler believes the answer lies in how leaders deal with public opinion, why they build transit infrastructure in the first place, and the metrics they use to measure success.
From the private sector to the public sector, Gillian Gillett has found that her willingness to point out that the emperor has no clothes is an important tool to use to get the ball rolling on important issues like transportation, housing, and equity.
City of Los Angeles’ Diego de la Garza and City of Oakland’s Ryan Russo are executives working in the transportation trenches every day. They are not only deploying mobility, but they are doing it equitably. How does thinking bigger than transportation bring us closer to The City of Tomorrow?
Without someone to help translate between the private sector that can move fast and the public sector that is more measured, we may never reach The City of Tomorrow. The ability to translate is the superpower of Jeffrey Tumlin, a principal at consulting firm Nelson Nygaard.
John Yi, executive director of advocacy group Los Angeles Walks, and Jason Zogg, an urban planner at Ford, share tools to interact with the community around us, including the largest public space in our communities: our streets.
Adonia Lugo and Romel Pasqual built CicLAvia, an event that catalyzes vibrant public spaces, active transportation, and good health through car-free street events. The event has helped over 1.6 million people access their streets in a different way and made them open to everyone. What can our streets look like in The City of Tomorrow?
From Sarah Kaufman’s start helping to make NYC transit data more accessible to her groundbreaking research on women’s challenges in mobility, she ensures that diversity, openness, and courage are critical elements in how we’ll build the future.
Rob Puentes of the Eno Center for Transportation recognizes that relying on the federal government to provide solutions for transportation problems is a major barrier to overcoming them. Instead, we need to think about how we frame the problems and the solutions.
Matt Brezina’s superpower of recognizing good ideas and amplifying them helped him see the potential of a “Hands Across America,” but for bike lanes, to highlight the need for better bike infrastructure and make advocacy more salient to more people.
From growing up in an immigrant family in car-centric upstate NY to a fortuitous ice cream cone on a Boston sidewalk, Shin-pei Tsay has felt the impact of public spaces on belonging and committed her career to building spaces to “make you feel like you belong.”
The nation’s mayors are often closest to the challenges in their communities and, thus, the most trusted to solve them. The National League of Cities’ Brooks Rainwater shares how local leaders lead the charge on tackling critical issues like mobility equitably.
Former software engineer David Alpert founded Greater Greater Washington to explore why cities operate the way they do. Along the way, he built a community by blending journalism with advocacy on critical transportation issues in the nation’s capital.
For a transportation business always in motion, the advent of new mobility choices is forcing hard recognitions around equity, standards, and governance. Join industry veteran Marlene Connor for a conversation on how public transit needs to evolve.
In Dan Winston’s role as both Spin’s DC GM and as a local elected official, he has learned that listening to his neighbors allows him to connect not only with the community’s values but also connect the community with important policies like Vision Zero.
Columbus, OH is struggling with high downtown office vacancy rates. Cleve Ricksecker has the answer: let the private sector lead by distributing 45,000 free bus passes to downtown workers, promoting economic integration and delivering an 8% mode shift.
Beth Osborne of transportation advocacy nonprofit Transportation for America gives a roadmap forward to overcome federal USDOT regulations that incentivize new projects over maintaining existing systems and high speed travel over local economic activity.
From college dropout to transit lifer, Mark Donaghy’s path to CEO of the Greater Dayton RTA has shown how empathy for customers and employees informs how GDRTA weaves public sector, private sector, and bikeshare together to serve the entire community.
Sure, traffic bites, but sustainability consultant Robin Rather says framing a transit referendum that way ignores a more impactful frame: transit as key to economic security, ensuring that we are investing the most in those that need the most. For more information about The Movement podcast, head to www.transloc.com and follow host Josh Cohen at www.twitter.com/CohenJP.
Whether it’s scooters, Uber, or zoning, Mary-Ann Baldwin learned from her time as a city councilor that communities have a hard time anticipating change. Learn her advice to combat this barrier, starting with a lesson her dad shared with her at age four. For more information about The Movement head to www.transloc.com, or follow Josh Cohen on www.Twitter.com/CohenJP.
If we really want to effect change, we have to attack the root cause. Join Hayling Price of social sector consulting group FSG as he shares lessons from other industries that we can apply in mobility. Hint: we’re doing the public meetings wrong. For more information about The Movement, head to www.transloc.com and follow host Josh Cohen on Twitter.com/CohenJP.
Jim Aloisi, former Massachusetts Secretary of Transportation, shares how his merry band of “transit geeks” at TransitMatters (where he is a board member) gets in the weeds with a unique brand of technical advocacy providing practical transit solutions. For more information about The Movement podcast, head to www.transloc.com and follow host Josh Cohen at www.twitter.com/CohenJP.
What’s the secret to successfully piloting a regional transit system serving millions of riders annually? For Tri Delta Transit (California) CEO Jeanne Krieg, it’s humility, a clear definition of priorities, and knowing that she has to live with every decision she makes. For more information about The Movement podcast, head to www.transloc.com and follow host Josh Cohen at www.twitter.com/CohenJP.
Welcome to our new TransLoc podcast, The Movement! To achieve the equitable, accessible, and verdant future we all seek, we need both the right conditions and specific leadership skills by our public and private stakeholders. The Movement podcast will profile those doing the hard work to effect change in their communities in order to build more leaders. Join TransLoc's National Director of Policy Josh Cohen as he explores mobility and how it impacts the cities of tomorrow. For more information head to www.TransLoc.com and follow Josh at www.twitter.com/CohenJP.
DjNarda Performs This Exclusive Cinematic Jack House Vibe Mix Live From Croatia On The Movement Channel (02/05/10)
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DjNarda Performs This High Energy Jack House Mix Live From Croatia On The Movement Channel (01/29/10)
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BlogTV @ http://www.blogtv.com/People/DJNarda
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YouTube @ http://www.youtube.com/user/DjNarda