Episode 573: Civil Rights Enforcement in Transportation Projects
From Talking Headways: A Streetsblog Podcast by The Overhead Wire
April 2, 2026 · 53 min
About this episode
Laurel Paget-Seekins discusses civil rights enforcement in transportation projects and the implications of transit agency power dynamics.
This week on the Talking Headways podcast we're joined once again by Laurel Paget-Seekins of Public Advocates . Laurel discusses transit agency power dynamics, loss of public sector capacity, and how the administration is looking to gut civil rights enforcement mechanisms for transportation projects. Links to Laurel's website Laurel in Transit and the Transit Data Primer +++ Get the show ad free on Patreon ! Find out about our newsletter and archive on YouTube ! Follow us on Bluesky, Threads, Instagram, YouTube, Flickr, Substack ... @theoverheadwire Follow us on Mastadon theoverheadwire@sfba.social Support the show on Patreon http://patreon.com/theoverheadwire Buy books on our Bookshop.org Affiliate site! And get our Cars are Cholesterol shirt at Tee-Public ! And everything else at http://theoverheadwire.com
People in this episode
Host: The Overhead Wire
Guest: Laurel Paget-Seekins
Topics covered
- civil rights
- transportation
- public sector
- transit agency
- enforcement mechanisms
Keywords
- civil rights
- transportation projects
- public sector capacity
- transit agency
- enforcement mechanisms
Mentioned in this episode
Organizations: Public Advocates, Talking Headways, Transit Data Primer, Patreon, YouTube, Bluesky, Threads, Instagram, Flickr, Substack
Products: Cars are Cholesterol shirt
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