Reinventing Transport
Paul Barter
Mobility Cities Public-Space
- 32 minutes 10 secondsSave Manila's (mostly informal) public transport
Metro Manila depends on informal, lightly-regulated public transport which now faces a catastrophe as a result of this pandemic.
The Mobility Coalition, an alliance of eight Metro Manila transport advocacy groups, has ideas on what to do.
Paul Barter spoke with Robie Siy who is active in the Mobility Coalition and who writes the weekly Mobility Matters column for the Manila Times.
Learn more and read the full show notes here.
7 May 2020, 9:41 am - 48 minutes 25 secondsHeavyweight champions for better buses
Cities need bus improvement champions - 'heavyweights' even.
For Reinventing Transport this time around I discussed bus improvements with public transport planning veteran Colin Brader of ITP.
Colin has worked on numerous public transport projects around the world and is one of the authors of the 2019 EBRD report, "Driving change: reforming urban bus services".
Learn more and read the full show notes here.
5 November 2019, 7:11 am - 43 minutes 35 secondsUpward and outward urban growth and why transport folks should care
Where in the world is urban growth mainly outward onto new land? Where is it mostly upward in the form of taller buildings?
These questions (and others) are tackled in a unique way by the important World Resources Institute (WRI) working paper, "Upward and Outward Growth: Managing Urban Expansion for More Equitable Cities in the Global South".
I spoke with co-author, Anjali Mahendra about the paper and why transport folks like you and me should pay attention. The result of our conversation is Reinventing Transport episode #17.
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10 September 2019, 2:38 pm - 26 minutes 10 secondsShaping public transport
If you care about promoting public transport, you need to understand the key choices about organising and regulating it. They shape the industry and they really matter.
This edition shares the key alternatives and gives a sense of what's at stake. The focus is buses but most of the ideas also apply more widely.
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30 July 2019, 1:06 pm - 30 minutes 19 secondsEnding parking minimums - why, where, who, how
Minimum parking requirements are under siege and that is a very good thing.
This episode examines parking minimums and the pushes in many cities to abolish them.
It does so with the help of excerpts from my other site and podcast, Reinventing Parking.
Learn more and read the full show notes here.
3 July 2019, 2:36 am - 36 minutes 19 secondsJakarta's transport is daunting not hopeless
Yoga Adiwinarto of ITDP Indonesia wants you to know that Jakarta's urban transport situation is not hopeless. There is progress and even a useful lesson or two for other large cities in middle-income countries. Paul and Yoga discussed urban transport in Jakarta for Reinventing Transport episode #14.
Learn more and read the full show notes here.
21 May 2019, 2:24 pm - 25 minutes 41 secondsSimplify and Connect - a key to better bus networks
Reinventing Transport #13 is an explainer for the idea that public transport networks can often be improved at low cost by being simplified. Your long waiting times for buses might be because there are too many bus lines!
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23 April 2019, 11:55 am - 33 minutesElectric two-wheelers: how big will they be?
Stefan Bakker sees a big future for electric vehicles with two wheels. They get less attention than electric cars or electric buses but two-wheeled electric vehicles are increasing faster and are making more of a difference already. This is Reinventing Transport #12.
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28 March 2019, 8:16 am - 36 minutes 49 secondsEnd mass car ownership without draconian policies?
Could we end the era of mass car ownership without a huge fight and without draconian policies. That's the focus of Reinventing Transport #11. It is also a tribute to Chris Bradshaw who passed away in November 2018.
Learn more and read the full show notes here.
27 February 2019, 8:42 am - 37 minutes 13 secondsAuckland shows car-dependent cities how to change
This encouraging episode looks at how the car-dependent metropolis of Auckland in New Zealand has been changing course since 2003 or so. It's part of my December 2018 discussion with Matt Lowrie and Patrick Reynolds of the Greater Auckland blog.
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22 January 2019, 8:11 am - 24 minutes 36 secondsThe blog that's changing Auckland and what you can learn from it
I interviewed Patrick Reynolds and Matt Lowrie, two of the bloggers on the Greater Auckland blog in New Zealand's largest city. It was a wide ranging conversation which will eventually become two Reinventing Transport episodes and one Reinventing Parking episode.
Auckland is a striking example of a rather car dependent city that has actually been changing some of its key trends and taking some remarkable steps towards becoming a different kind of city in which other transport options are steadily improving.
This episode focuses on the Greater Auckland blog itself and its role in Auckland's transport (and planning) policy conversations and debates. It has been amazingly effective and influential.
There are lessons for transport activists anywhere.
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