Podcast

A plenary conversation from Rail~Volution 2022 in Miami, with Stephanie Wiggins, CEO of LA Metro;  Leslie Richards, General Manager and CEO of SEPTA in Philadelphia; Diana Stanley, CEO of The Lord’s Place, a homeless services provider in South Florida. Our moderator is Daniel Gibson, Regional Vice President, Miami-Dade, for Allegany Franciscan Ministries.

Tamika L. Butler is a national expert and speaker on issues related to the built environment, equity, anti-racism, diversity and inclusion, organizational behavior, and change management. She is the Principal + Founder of Tamika L. Butler Consulting.

With Shelley Poticha, Chief Climate Strategist, Natural Resources Defense Council; Jane Gilbert, Chief Heat Officer, Miami-Dade County; Elizabeth Wheaton, Chief Sustainability and Resilience Officer, Community Infrastructure Partners; and Laurian Farrell, Regional Director, North America, Resilient Cities Network.

We’re joined by Jacob Graham, Program Manager with MoGo bike share in Detroit, to talk about the Connect D project to better understand the bike share to bus connection.

We’re talking with Tien-Tien Chan, a Principal at Nelson\Nygaard, and Jessica Roberts, a Principal at Alta Planning and Design, about transportation demand management (TDM) – what it is and how it has changed in recent years to embrace far more than the daily commute.

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We’re talking with Greg Stuart, Executive Director of the Broward County, Florida, Metropolitan Planning Organization, about the evolution of the county and how a pattern of suburban growth is shifting toward more walkable, bikeable and transit-ready neighborhoods.

Jim Murley, Chief Resilience Officer for Miami-Dade County, joins us, describing how South Florida takes a comprehensive approach to resilience. We spoke to him in spring 2020, as the county was beginning to respond to COVID-19. We’re replaying this episode in anticipation of Rail~Volution 2022, October 30 to November 2 in downtown Miami. 

We talk with Kim Cella, Executive Director of Citizens for Modern Transit, and Sheila Holm, Community Outreach Director with AARP St. Louis, about placemaking and activation of transit stops in the St. Louis region.

On this episode, Elias Valencia, a planner with the City of Phoenix, and Victor Vidales, a local resident and business owner, talk about the creation of the South Central TOD Community Plan, which was passed by the City of Phoenix city council in March of 2022.

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With Lea Hargett, Chief Strategy Consultant, JOG Associates, and Johnny Opara, President and CEO, JO Companies.

We’re joined by Yonah Freemark and Harriet Tregoning for a discussion of the ways federal policy and funding could do more to support better outcomes for people.

Listen in on a conversation between Mary Kate Morookian and Aidil Ortiz about how “hard to reach” community members are helping shape an update to the Durham Transit Plan. Morookian is a transit planner in Kimley-Horn’s Raleigh office and Ortiz is founder and owner of Aidilisms, a consultancy that focuses on connection, culture and equity, based in Durham, North Carolina.  

On this episode, we talk with Adie Tomer, Senior Fellow at Brookings Metro, about why transit-oriented development (TOD) is a key strategy for tackling climate change.

Join us for a 1-1 Conversation with Grace Perdomo, Executive Director of Transit Alliance Miami, and Carlos Cruz-Casas, Deputy Director of the Miami-Dade County Department of Transportation and Public Works, about how a nonprofit organization led a major bus network redesign in cooperation with county transit officials.

A conversation with Monica Tibbits-Nutt, former Vice-Chair of the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority (MBTA) Fiscal and Management Control Board, Christof Spieler, former board member of Houston METRO, and Grace Crunican, former General Manager of San Francisco Bay Area Rapid Transit District (BART).