Episode 487: Killed by a Traffic Engineer

An episode of the Talking Headways: A Streetsblog Podcast podcast, hosted by The Overhead Wire, titled "Episode 487: Killed by a Traffic Engineer" was published on June 13, 2024 and runs 52 minutes.

June 13, 2024 ·52m · Talking Headways: A Streetsblog Podcast

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This week we're joined by Wes Marshall, Civil Engineering Professor at the University of Colorado at Denver to talk about his book Killed by a Traffic Engineer: Shattering the Delusion that Science Underlies our Transportation System. We chat about writing process, the ideas of risk and exposure, and what he learned from pouring over old transportation engineering journals.

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