#public-transit
16 episodes
#3327: Tel Aviv & Jerusalem: From Rival Cities to One Corridor
Two cities, 45 minutes apart, operating like separate planets. What global case studies teach us about real urban synergy.
#3274: Who Wins When Cars Leave the Street?
Removing cars doesn't create abundance—it creates a knife fight over eight meters of asphalt.
#3240: How to Design Cities for People, Not Cars
The thinkers and interventions reshaping urban streets — without banning cars.
#3193: Connected Villages: The Real Alternative to Suburban Sprawl
What if suburbs didn't require a car for everything? Exploring transit-first city planning that actually works.
#3144: When Walls Talk: Graffiti's 17,000-Year Story
From Pompeii to Melbourne 2025 — how cities decide what stays on walls and what gets scrubbed.
#3121: Can You Benchmark Government Value for Money?
A century of attempts to measure whether citizens get a good deal on taxes — and why none have fully worked.
#3086: How 2 Cities Banned Cars From Their Centers
Pontevedra and Ghent removed cars from their cores. Emergency response times actually got faster.
#3084: How Jerusalem’s Light Rail Broke Walking
Why a 90-minute walk for a package reveals everything broken about how cities manage construction.
#3029: Why Jerusalem's Light Rail Takes So Long
The visible pace of Jerusalem's light rail construction hides a complex web of incentives, archaeology, and municipal rules.
#3018: Designing a Trip to East Asia for Real Understanding
How to design an itinerary from Tel Aviv to Singapore, Hong Kong, and Japan that produces genuine cultural understanding.
#3008: Israel's Rail Network: Ambition Meets Geography
Why Israel's "high-speed" train isn't high-speed, and what actually determines whether rail makes sense in a small country.
#2748: What Cities Look Like Without Cars
How Barcelona, Paris, and others are redesigning streets for people instead of vehicles — and what we can learn from them.
#2717: Lower Greenville: From Streetcar Suburb to Food Mecca
How one Dallas street went from farmland to counterculture hub to dining destination.
#908: Why Did We Forget How to Build Cheap Subways?
Why does a mile of subway cost billions today? Herman and Corn explore the hidden complexities and rising costs of modern urban transit.
#575: The End of the Car: Can We Really Quit Private Transport?
Is the private car a failed experiment? Herman and Corn discuss why EVs aren't enough and how we can design cities for people, not machines.
#406: Policing Shekels, Losing Dollars: The Transit Friction Crisis
Exploring how aggressive transit enforcement creates high-stress cities and why "policing shekels" might be costing us the future of green mobility.