Podcast

We’re joined by Nancy Andrews, longtime leader in community development finance.

We’re joined by Patrick Siegman to unpack automobile parking – perhaps the most subsidized element of transportation!

We’re joined by Odetta MacLeish-White, Managing Director of Atlanta’s TransFormation Alliance.

We’re joined by LA Metro CEO, Phil Washington, to talk about the evolving role of transit agencies in the life of cities. He discusses building affordable housing near transit, testing new ideas like microtransit, and the origins of Metro’s Office of Extraordinary Innovation.

Mariia Zimmerman recaps her experience with the evolving conversation about transit and livable communities, from the days of proving transit-oriented development as a concept (including some blind spots) to TOD as a mobility hub. The goal: “creating great places where people across all income levels can live.”

We’re talking with Jonathan Sage Martinson, former director of the Central Corridor Funders Collaborative, about the very deliberate steps taken to ensure community participation in defining the outcomes from a new light rail transit line the Twin Cities.