Podcast

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).

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.

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.

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

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.” 

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.

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.”