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Beyond Streets
Rethinking How We Move, Build, and Live
Beyond Streets explores the everyday impact of transportation on our lives, neighborhoods, and futures. More than roads and rails, transportation is a mirror of our values — safety, connection, opportunity, and access. In each episode, we go beyond the headlines and into communities, talking with organizers, policymakers, builders, and residents who are reimagining what it means to move through the world. From housing to health, climate to equity, we uncover how smarter, people-first transportation can unlock better futures — and what’s standing in the way. If you're ready to ask bold questions, challenge ineffective systems, and explore what's truly possible, you're in the right place.
Beyond Streets
Beyond Streets Hosts Hang: What's Certain in these Uncertain Times
In this host-only episode, we dive into one of the most elusive forces in transportation and public life today: certainty—or the lack thereof.
With some decent dad jokes, candor/wit, and the occasional turmeric-ginger tonic, we unpack what it means to move forward on transportation policy, planning, and research when funding is unpredictable, infrastructure is politicized, and communities are just trying to make it work. From the shifting fate of Safe Streets for All to LA's budget realities and Oakland’s “pothole vigilantes,” this conversation threads together the personal, political, and policy-driven forces shaping how cities build—and maintain—livable streets.
Expect some takes on:
- How cities adapt when federal support wavers
- What it means to weigh benefits vs. burdens
- The politics of potholes, parklets, and Purple Lines
- Whether or not pilot projects are back
- And why defining value starts with community voice
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