Look Both Ways with David & Wes is the transportation podcast by David Zipper & Wes Marshall.  Today, we're tossing our regularly scheduled programming out the window in order to recap the transportation news that made us laugh, cry, and shout in 2025 — and then we share what we'll be looking out for in 2026. And yes, we still have some rail drinks at the end...   Some additional resources:David’s biggest laugh of the year (pedestrians told to keep to the left in Melbourne) David’s favorite dress from Toronto’s 2025 bike wars David’s most promising innovation: DADSS David’s favorite article of the year, about vehicle blind zones changing over time David’s most thought-provoking book: More and More and More by Jean-Baptiste Fressoz   Music by Charlie Van Stee(courtesy of bensound) Email us at lookbothwayspod@gmail.comor find us at www.davidzipper.com and www.wesmarshall.org   

Look Both Ways with David & Wesis the transportation podcast by David Zipper & Wes Marshall.  Today, we're talking about:🔹 Memorable road trips🔹 Boston trying to kill Waymo?🔹 The purported death of big eBike player Rad🔹 New words for Access?Then, we take listener questions and partake in some rail drinks... Some additional resources: ‘Attack on our way of life’: Debate around autonomous vehicles heats up in Boston The rise and fall of Rad Power Bikes: From breakout success to the brink of shutdown CPSC Warns Consumers to Immediately Stop Using Batteries for E-Bikes from Rad Power Bikes Due to Fire Hazard; Risk of Serious Injury or Death   Music by Charlie Van Stee(courtesy of bensound) Email us at lookbothwayspod@gmail.comor find us at www.davidzipper.com and www.wesmarshall.org   

Look Both Ways with David & Wesis the transportation podcast by David Zipper & Wes Marshall.  Today, we talk about:🔹 How we learn about transportation in a new city🔹 Threats to funding transit via the Highway Trust Fund🔹 What the hell do we all mean when we say Access?🔹 Transportation trends in Europe aren't going the way we'd hopeThen, some listener questions and rail drinks...   Some additional resources: Elements of Access: Transport Planning for Engineers, Transport Engineering for Planners (2017) by David Levinson, Wes Marshall, & Kay Axhausen Politico Article: Trump administration proposals seek to eliminate transit funding Politico Article: Graves pans DOT proposal axing mass transit account   Music by Charlie Van Stee(courtesy of bensound) Email us at lookbothwayspod@gmail.comor find us at www.davidzipper.com and www.wesmarshall.org 

Look Both Ways with David & Wesis the transportation podcast by David Zipper & Wes Marshall.  Today, we talk about:🔹 Where we went and what we saw🔹 Mamdani’s New York City transportation agenda🔹 Back to the Future is Overdue🔹 Dive into the mailbagThen some rail drinks... Music by Charlie Van Stee(courtesy of bensound) Email us at lookbothwayspod@gmail.comor find us at www.davidzipper.com and www.wesmarshall.org 

Look Both Ways with David & Wesis the transportation podcast by David Zipper & Wes Marshall.  Today, we talk about:🔹 Trick-or-Treating🔹 "The Traffic Noise Externality"🔹 A Proliferation of Anti-Car Books🔹 The Trials & Tribulations of a Young Engineer Trying to Do BetterThen, we have some rail drinks... Here is David's article on the Anti-Car Books:www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-10-10/car-brain-is-making-the-us-unhealthy-and-dangerous-evs-won-t-fix-it And "The Traffic Noise Externality: Costs, Incidence and Policy Implications" paper by Enrico Moretti & Harrison Wheeler: www.nber.org/papers/w34298 Music by Charlie Van Stee(courtesy of bensound) Email us at lookbothwayspod@gmail.comor find us at www.davidzipper.com and www.wesmarshall.org 

Look Both Ways with David & Wesis the transportation podcast by David Zipper & Wes Marshall.  Today, we talk about:🔹 Getting Our Driver's Licenses🔹 The USDOT Withholding Transit Funding🔹 An Amish Paradise Includes eBikes??🔹 Why Transit Vehicles Cost So Much More in the USAt the end, we have some rail drinks... Here is David's article (the first of its kind) on Why US Cities Pay Too Much for Buses:www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-09-26/us-cities-are-paying-too-much-for-new-transit-buses And some other resources that might help your cause:- www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/transportation-secretary-sean-duffy-cta-funding-safety/- www.nytimes.com/2025/10/01/nyregion/trump-nyc-subway-gateway-infrastructure-funding.html- www.brookings.edu/articles/paying-less-for-public-transit-buses/ Music by Charlie Van Stee(courtesy of bensound) Email us at lookbothwayspod@gmail.comor find us at www.davidzipper.com and www.wesmarshall.org 

Look Both Ways with David & Wesis the transportation podcast by David Zipper & Wes Marshall.  Today, we talk about:🔹 How we Go About Finding a Neighborhood to Live In🔹 Robotaxis are Coming... What Should Cities Do?🔹 Whatever Happened to MaaS?🔹 Evolving Bike Lanes, Bikelash, & John ForesterAnd then some rail drinks... If you are interested, here is David's new article on Cities & Self-Driving Cars:www.vox.com/future-perfect/461393/self-driving-cars-cities-congestion-avs-parking and his old one on MaaS:www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-08-05/the-struggle-to-make-mobility-as-a-service-make-money Here is Wes' paper on how cities with more protected & separated bike lanes are safer for everyone:https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2214140518301488 (if you don't like academic papers, this video explains our results: www.youtube.com/watch?v=YwYeNz1jCkM) as well as the back-and-forth...www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2214140519305481www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2214140519306310 Music by Charlie Van Stee(courtesy of bensound) Email us at lookbothwayspod@gmail.comor find us at www.davidzipper.com and www.wesmarshall.org 

Look Both Ways with David & Wesis the transportation podcast by David Zipper & Wes Marshall.  Today, we talk about:🔹 Our First Times (Riding Transit)🔹 Exporting Car Bloat 🔹 The Surprising Popularity of Traffic Cameras🔹 99% Invisible & Making a City 10% Better for No MoneyAnd stick around to the end for some rail drinks... If you are interested, here is David’s article on the popularity of automated traffic enforcement:www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-08-28/automated-traffic-enforcement-is-more-popular-than-you-think Music by Charlie Van Stee(courtesy of bensound) Email us at lookbothwayspod@gmail.comor find us at www.davidzipper.com and www.wesmarshall.org 

Look Both Ways with David & Wesis THE transportation podcast by David Zipper & Wes Marshall.  Today, we talk about:🔹 David’s European Travels🔹 Rainbow Crosswalks in the Crosshairs🔹 The Misery Index (& Paratransit)🔹 The US/Canada Road Safety Gap And it’s 5 O'Clock Somewhere so stick around to the end for some rail drinks... If you are interested, here is Wes’ paper about Paratransit:www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2590198225000260 And David’s article on the growing divide in road safety between the US and Canada:www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-08-13/the-us-and-canada-are-going-in-different-directions-on-traffic-safety Music by Charlie Van Stee(courtesy of bensound) Email us at lookbothwayspod@gmail.comor find us at www.davidzipper.com and www.wesmarshall.org 

Look Both Ways with David & Wesis the transportation podcast by David Zipper & Wes Marshall.  Today, we talk about:🔹 Calgary?🔹 Tesla’s $243M Autopilot Loss🔹 The Boring-est Company🔹 The Humble Speed HumpAnd stick around to the end for some rail drinks... If you are interested, here is David’s article on speed humps:www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2025-08-05/all-hail-the-humble-speed-hump-the-best-cheap-traffic-safety-fix Music by Charlie Van Stee(courtesy of bensound) Email us at lookbothwayspod@gmail.comor find us at www.davidzipper.com and www.wesmarshall.org   

Look Both Ways with David & Wesis the transportation podcast by David Zipper & Wes Marshall.  Today, we talk about:🔹 Which of us likes cars less (or more)🔹 Bike helmet mandates🔹 Abundance in transportation🔹 The risk of a transit doom loop And then we have a couple rail drinks... Music by Charlie Van Stee(courtesy of bensound) And in case you want to read David’s article on Abundance:www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-04-03/when-the-abundance-movement-talks-about-transportation Or Wes’ paper on bike helmets and safety:www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/17457300.2024.2441501 Email us at lookbothwayspod@gmail.comor find us at www.davidzipper.com and www.wesmarshall.org   

This is episode 1 of Look Both Ways with David & Wes, a new transportation podcast by David Zipper & Wes Marshall