Podcast

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.

On this podcast we’re joined by Gordon Price for an insider’s view of Vancouver, how it developed and what might be next on the horizon.

How easy is it to get the places we want to go? Andrew Owen, director of the Accessibility Observatory at the University of Minnesota, gives us a new way to look at places – through the lens of accessibility.

We’re joined by Bowinn Ma, a transportation engineer who represents North Vancouver-Lonsdale in the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia. She also is the parliamentary secretary for TransLink, the regional transportation authority.

On this episode we’re talking transit ridership with Amy Silbermann, Director of Planning for Port Authority of Allegheny County, the transit agency in Pittsburgh, and Steven Higashide and Mary Buchanan, co-authors of Transit Center’s Who’s On Board 2019, a report based on surveys of transit riders.

On this episode we’re joined by Vanan Murugesan, Director of Design and Innovation at Pillsbury United Communities, a human services organization in Minneapolis that recently opened a nonprofit grocery store, North Market.

We’re excited to welcome Laura Loe to the Rail~Volution podcast. She currently is a community activist with Share the Cities in Seattle and a bus driver.