Why The Overhead Wire w/ Jeff Wood

In this episode, I connect with Jeff Wood, founder of The Overhead Wire, a sustainable transportation and urbanism consulting firm and weekly news curation service. Jeff is also the founder and primary host of the Talking Headways Podcast, which is associated with Streetsblog USA Jeff gives us some background about the firm, its name, and a view into the current situation in San Francisco. Additional Helpful Links: San Francisco Open Streets article SF Covid-19 Response Reconnecting America New Zealand's Response: Funding Popup Bike Lanes Active Towns Podcast episode with Mike Lydon Austin's Transit Plan: Project Connect The Rail~Volution Podcast Active Towns Podcast Episode with Kea Wilson Four Easy Steps to Support My Efforts: 1. Become an Active Towns Ambassador by "Buying Me a Coffee" or by pledging as little as $1 per month on Patreon 2. If you enjoyed this episode, please give it a "thumbs up," leave a review on Apple Podcasts, and share it with a friend. 3. Subscribe to the podcast on your preferred listening platform and the Active Towns YouTube Channel 4. Pick up some Active Towns #StreetsAreForPeople Merch at my store Credits: All video and audio production by John Simmerman Music: Joyful Ride by Simon Jomphe Lepine via AudioBlocks.com Resources used during the production of this episode: - My awesome recording platform is Ecamm - Adobe Creative Cloud Suite For more information about my Active Towns effort or to follow along, please visit my links below: - Website - Twitter - Newsletter - Podcast landing pages - Facebook - Instagram Background: Hi Everyone, my name is John Simmerman. I’m a health promotion professional with over 30 years of experience and my area of concentration has evolved into a specialization of how the built environment influences human behavior related to active living and especially active mobility. In 2012 I launched the non-profit Advocates for Healthy Communities as an effort to help promote and create healthy, active places. Since that time, I've been exploring, documenting, and profiling established, emerging, and aspiring Active Towns wherever they might be, in order to produce high-quality multimedia content to help inspire the creation of more safe and inviting, environments that promote a "Culture of Activity" for "All Ages & Abilities." My Active Towns suite of channels feature my original video and audio content and reflections, including a selection of podcast episodes and short films profiling the positive and inspiring efforts happening around the world as I am able to experience and document them. Thanks for tuning in; I hope you have found this content helpful. Creative Commons License: Attributions, Non-Commercial, No Derivatives, 2020 Advocates for Healthy Communities, Inc. is a nonprofit 501c3 organization (EIN 45-3802508) dedicated to helping communities create a Culture of Activity. To donate, click here. ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★