The Brake: A Streetsblog Podcast

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Episodes: 73

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 Jul 1, 2024

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Covering the movement to end car dependency in the United States, one interview at a time

Episode Date
How One Transportation Emergency Can Keep Parents From Achieving Their College Dreams (Abigail Seldin)
May 22, 2025
Where Does 'Motonormativity' Come From — And Which Country Has It Worst? (Marco te Brömmelstroet and Ian Walker)
May 06, 2025
How Media and Culture Contribute to Traffic Violence (Myron Levin)
Mar 25, 2025
How Highways Tear Our Social Fabric Apart — and the Challenge of Measuring It (Luca Maria Aiello)
Mar 11, 2025
Does 'Vision Zero' Need a Reset? (David Harkey)
Feb 25, 2025
The Missing Ingredients In America's 'Minimobility' Revolution (Benjie De La Peña and Karina Ricks)
Feb 11, 2025
Everything You Need to Know About Keeping VRUS Safe In Your State in One Document (Michael Kelley)
Jan 29, 2025
What's Missing From the 'Safe Systems' Approach (Roger Millar)
Jan 14, 2025
When You Can't Drive in America's Hottest City (Mayor Kate Gallego)
Dec 17, 2024
How to Build a Car-Light Neighborhood From Scratch — Even in Texas
Dec 10, 2024
How America's 'Soft Power' is Shaping Mobility Around the World — And How Cities Like Tirana Are Resisting it
Nov 26, 2024
What the U.S. Can Learn From the 'Bike Mayor' of Africa, Manuel de Araújo
Nov 12, 2024
How America's Mayors Are Fighting Back Against Harmful Highways (Andy Schor)
Oct 29, 2024
When Car Dependency Meets Climate Disaster (Sara McTarnaghan and Will Curran-Groome)
Oct 15, 2024
Should We Stop Calling Bike Lanes 'Bike Lanes'? (Nick Ferenchak and Wes Marshall)
Oct 01, 2024
Five Hundred Episodes In, Jeff Wood Isn't Done Exploring Everything Our Cities Can Be (Jeff Wood)
Sep 17, 2024
How Cities Are Getting Creative to Reclaim Public Space for People (Vanessa Barrios)
Sep 03, 2024
Is America Ready for the Equity Impacts of the AV Revolution? (Dr. Andrew Dannenberg)
Aug 20, 2024
What If We Treated Car Crash Sites Like Disaster Zones? (Kevin Krizek and Tina Duhaime)
Aug 06, 2024
What Project 2025 Could Mean for Transportation in America (Beth Osborne)
Jul 23, 2024
How Cities Can Put Equality First Through Sustainable Transportation (Enrique Peñalosa Londoño).mp3
Jul 02, 2024
The Real Reason Why Traffic Engineers Design So Many Deadly Roads (Wes Marshall)
Jun 18, 2024
Why 'Sustainable Transportaiton' Is Not Enough (Thalia Verkade and Marco te Brömmelstroet)
Jun 04, 2024
What All of Us Can Learn From the 30 Percent of Americans Who Can't Drive (Anna Zivarts)
May 21, 2024
How to Fight a Texas-Sized Freeway Battle (Megan Kimble)
May 07, 2024
Why We Can't End Violence on Transit With More Police (Lindiwe Rennert)
Apr 23, 2024
Bike Advocates and EMS Workers Don't Have to Be Enemies (Shelley Bontje and Chris Bruntlett)
Apr 09, 2024
How People on Bikes Can Come Together As Advocates — No Matter Why They Ride (Peter Flax)
Mar 26, 2024
How Many People Does Car Culture Kill, Exactly?
Mar 12, 2024
Does Your City Need a Walkability Study? (Jeff Speck and Chris Dempsey)
Feb 20, 2024
What Are the Challenges — And Joys — Of 'Being Black in Public'? (Jay Pitter)
Feb 06, 2024
Could a Single Law End Impaired Driving As We Know It? (Rana Abbas Taylor)
Jan 23, 2024
Are Boomers to Blame for America's Dirty Transportation System? (Lawrence MacDonald)
Jan 09, 2024
Why 'Bike-partisanship' Is Our Secret Weapon (Rep. Earl Blumenauer)
Nov 14, 2023
How Walking Can Help End the Climate Crisis (Bill McKibben)
Oct 31, 2023
How AI Could Transform Transportation — And Not Just When It Comes to AVs (Renee Autumn Ray)
Oct 17, 2023
What Do 'Livable' Streets Look Like in an Era of Driverless Cars? (Dr. Bruce Appleyard)
Oct 03, 2023
Why Sustainable Transportation Advocates Need to Talk about Long COVID (John Bolecek)
Sep 19, 2023
Which Car-Cutting Strategies Really Work — And Which Ones Will We Accept? (Dr. Kimberly Nicholas)
Sep 05, 2023
How to Take a Freeway Fight to the Next Level (Alex Burns and José Antonio Zayas Cabán)
Aug 15, 2023
What Does 'Inclusive' Transportation Really Mean? (Veronica O. Davis)
Aug 01, 2023
Is This the Best Statewide Transportation Bill Yet? (Sen. Scott Dibble and Rep. Frank Hornstein)
Jul 18, 2023
How To Train an Army of Sustainable Transportation Activists (Carter Lavin)
Jun 06, 2023
How Does Parking Help Explain the World? (Henry Grabar, feat. Gersh Kuntzman)
May 23, 2023
Is the Electric Car A 'Wolf In Sheep's Clothing'? (Agnieszka Stefaniec)
May 09, 2023
How Can Sustainable Transportation Advocates Help End Poverty? (Matthew Desmond)
Apr 25, 2023
How Does Toxic Masculinity Play Out On Our Roads — And How Do We Stop It? (Dr. Tara Goddard)
Apr 11, 2023
What It Takes To Reframe the Narrative About Car Dependency (Grant Ennis)
Mar 28, 2023
What It Takes To Start Your Own Bikeshare Company
Mar 14, 2023
Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Roadside Noise Cameras (Nick Ferenchak)
Feb 28, 2023
Can Athletes Help Solve Urbanism's 'PR Problem'? (Tesho Akindele)
Feb 14, 2023
How Mayors Can Lead The Way To A Sustainable Transportation Future (Mayor John Bauters)
Jan 31, 2023
The (Too-Brief) History of Traffic Violence Memorials in America (Peter Norton)
Dec 13, 2022
Who Gets Hurt When Cities Ban E-Scooters (Charles T. Brown)
Nov 29, 2022
What the Last Decade Has Done for the Walkability Movement (Jeff Speck)
Nov 15, 2022
What It's Really Like to Lose Someone to Traffic Violence (Dan Langenkamp)
Nov 01, 2022
How to Start Grassroots Safe Streets Movement (Elizabeth Creely of Safe Street Rebel)
Oct 04, 2022
Would a Car-Light City Really be 'Quiet'? (Dr. Erica Walker)
Sep 20, 2022
Six Arguments Against Speed Governors — And How to Quash Them (David Zipper)
Sep 06, 2022
Why Arguments Against Free Transit Are Missing the Point (Destiny Thomas)
Aug 23, 2022
What Would a 'Post-Automobility' Future Look Like? (Robert Braun and Richard Randell, Pt. 2)
Aug 09, 2022
Why 'Car Culture' Is About So Much More Than Cars (Robert Braun and Richard Randell)
Jul 26, 2022
Why Americans Don't Drive Less When Gas Prices Soar (Dr. Ian Walker)
Jul 12, 2022
Are Planning and Engineering Students On Board with Sustainable Transportation? (Nick Klein and Kelcie Ralph
Jun 28, 2022
Why Every City Needs A Car Master Plan (Cathy Tuttle)
Jun 07, 2022
How 'Community Mobility Rituals' Can Transform Your Neighborhood
May 24, 2022
Why Sustainable Transportation Advocates Need to Talk About Zoning
May 10, 2022
Episode 6: Should Cities Train Their Own Transportation Advocates? (Keith Barthlomew and Nathan McNeil)
Apr 26, 2022
Episode 5: Where Do Great Bus Stops Come From? (Mary Buchanan)
Apr 12, 2022
Episode 4: When Communities DIY Their Own Transit (Benjie de la Peña)
Mar 29, 2022
Episode 3: What It's Like to Be A Woman in Transportation (And Why It Matters) with Stephanie Lotshaw and Ashley Pryce
Mar 14, 2022
Episode 2: Who Should Get to Decide Whether a Road Goes on a Diet? (Beth Osborne)
Mar 01, 2022
Episode 1: Why There's No Such Thing As a Car Accident (Jessie Singer)
Feb 14, 2022