Podcast

Vedran Dzebic is head of R&D for Entro, a signage and wayfinding company with expertise in transportation. Ntianu Eastmond-Visani is a mom, with a background in retail and a passion for making the New York subway system easier to navigate for caregivers with kids and strollers.

Episode 34 Transcript

This Rail~Volution podcast introduces a new format we will use from time to time – of two guests speaking with each other. Let’s listen as Francisco Heredia a city council member in Mesa, AZ, and Braxton Winston, a city councilmember in Charlotte,  NC, talk about their work as advocates and elected officials as well as their vision for transit in their communities.

We’re joined by Stephanie Gidigbi, a community champion and systems strategist. Among her many professional roles, she is developing a racial resilience training program, including focus on transportation equity.

Hear about the factors involved in one transit agency’s response to COVID-19 and their efforts to improve the quality of the transit experience for their riders, with David Huffaker, Chief Development Officer for the Port Authority of Allegheny County.

Dr. Georges Benjamin, Executive Director of the American Public Health Association, joins us to explore the linkage between health, transportation and the built environment.

Jim Murley, Chief Resiliency Officer for Miami-Dade County, joins us, describing how South Florida takes a comprehensive approach to resiliency. We spoke to him earlier this spring, as the county was beginning to respond to COVID-19. Due to the pandemic, the Rail~Volution conference in Miami is rescheduled to October 2022.

April Bertelsen, transit modal planner with the City of Portland Bureau of Transportation, joins us to share all the details about the Rose Lanes initiative to create a bus priority network. This is the second in a series about bus priority. Please also see Episode 26, “Corridors Where Bus is King,” with Lindiwe Rennert, a transit planner with the City of Boston Transportation Department

We’re joined by Houston Mayor Sylvester Turner. He describes the city’s Complete Communities program and why he has made it a priority.

We’re joined by Lindiwe Rennert, Transit Planner with the City of Boston Transportation Department.

This episode brings together two hot topics – bus expansion and affordable housing. We’re joined by Rafe Rabalais, Long-Range Asset Development Manager, and Adrienne Heim, Public Information Officer, both with San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency (SFMTA).

Our guests this episode are Alice Bravo and Carlos Cruz-Casas, Director and Deputy Director, respectively, of the Miami-Dade Department of Transportation and Public Works. This episode was recorded during the 2019 Rail~Volution transit and community development conference in Vancouver, BC.

We’re joined by Grace Crunican, who most recently led Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART). Having worked on both coasts and with cities, states, the federal government and agencies, Grace has experience to share. Listen for her stories about coalition building, breaking down “stove pipes,” women in leadership, and how she has tried to give her staff “exposure to a bigger picture” so that they can be “pulled toward” the next opportunity.

We’re joined by Steve Dotterrer and GB Arrington, both of whom were involved with Rail~Volution from the get-go (and before). They share the origins of the conference, how it has evolved and their hopes for the future of the revolution.

Live from Vancouver, the future of the livability revolution: a conversation moderated by GB Arrington and featuring Odetta MacLeish-White, Mac McCarthy and Lisa Bender.

Three staff members from Seattle’s Sound Transit describe their evolving approach to planning transit-oriented communities.