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With the Mpact Podcast, we’re delving deeper into what it takes to build more just and sustainable communities around transit. Look for a new podcast around the start of every month.

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| September 12, 2024

Episode 84: Wins and Co-benefits from Climate Work

A 1 to 1 Conversation about climate resilience, transit, sustainability and the intersection of all of the above, with Julie Eaton Ernst, Climate Resilience Practice Leader at HNTB, and Dr. Cris Liban, Chief Sustainability Officer at LA Metro.

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| May 5, 2022

Episode 55: Portrait of a Developer

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

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| April 7, 2022

Episode 54: Mode Shift for Federal Funding

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.

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| March 3, 2022

Episode 53: A New Conversation About Transit in Durham

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.  

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| February 3, 2022

Episode 52: Climate Friendly Neighborhoods

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.

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| January 6, 2022

Episode 51: A Grassroots Bus Network Redesign

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.

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| December 9, 2021

Episode 50: Transit Board Members: Leading the Charge for Policy Change

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).

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| November 4, 2021

Episode 49: Growing Transit Systems for a New World

This episode presents a conversation between transit agency CEOs: Debra Johnson, CEO and General Manager of the Regional Transportation District (RTD) in Denver and Peter Rogoff, CEO of Sound Transit in Seattle, moderated by Adelee Le Grand, CEO of the Hillsborough Area Regional Transit Authority (HART) in Tampa. This was the Wednesday plenary at the 2021 Rail~Volution virtual conference.

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| October 7, 2021

Episode 48: Bringing Joy With Transit And TOD

A 1-1 Conversation between Collie Greenwood, Deputy General Manager of Operations at MARTA, and Jacob Vallo, Senior Director of TOD & Real Estate at MARTA.

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| August 5, 2021

Episode 46: New Solutions to New Challenges

On our latest podcast, we get to know Rail~Volution’s new CEO, Tamar Shapiro. 

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| July 8, 2021

Episode 45: No More Transit Hunger Games

On this episode of the Rail~Volution Podcast, Kevin Corbett, President and CEO of NJ TRANSIT, talks with WSP’s Dan Baer about the turn-around at NJ TRANSIT, a process Corbett compares to “getting out of the transit hunger games.” 

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| June 24, 2021

Episode 44: Rethinking City Transportation

We’re joined by Christopher Puchalsky and Andrew Simpson from the Philadelphia Office of Technology, Infrastructure and Sustainability to talk about The Philadelphia Transit Plan, regional rail improvements, transit service levels and agency coordination.

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| June 3, 2021

Episode 43: Coordinating Better Transit

We’re joined by Robert del Rosario, Director of Service Development and Planning at AC Transit in the Bay Area in California. Find out how regional operators are coordinating in unprecedented ways to try to “do this recovery correctly.”

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| May 5, 2021

Episode 42: A Framework for Inclusive Healthy Places

On this episode, we’re joined by Sharon Roerty and Maki Kawaguchi, who describe the origins and uses of a framework for understanding, creating and measuring public spaces.

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| March 31, 2021

Episode 41: A New Conversation about Development Finance

On this episode, Dan Nissenbaum describes how the Low Income Investment Fund (LIIF) is working to deliver capital to projects that advance racial equity.

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