Ana’s Fight To Fix Her Country’s 34,000 Annual Road Deaths

Ana Carboni is a cycling advocate living and working in a super-challenging environment. Brasilia is the purpose-built capital of Brazil. It has some famous modern architecture including its sculptural parliament building. But Brasilia was designed in the 1950’s, entirely around the automobile. Th…

New European Cycling Industries CEO Gets Proactive on Advocacy

New European Cycling Industries CEO Gets Proactive on Advocacy Our guest this month is Paul Walsh. Paul is originally from Ireland, has lived in Brussels for over 20 years and brings more than 12 years of experience working in Brussels-based industry associations. He holds a master's degree in A…

Why It’s Time for 30 Now!

Why It’s Time for 30 Now! Jullietta Jung and Jennifer Kent are launching a new campaign in Australia that is equally relevant around the world. 30Now will be calling for the speed limit on all local streets to be lowered to 30 kilometres per hour (20 miles per hour). Jennifer Kent is Associate P…

How Skye Duncan is Globally Multiplying Lessons She Learned in NYC.

Our guest this month is Skye Duncan, a brilliant communicator who is Executive Director of the Global Designing Cities Initiative (GDCI). This innovative and impactful organisation is primarily funded by Bloomberg Philanthropies with a worldwide team of over 45 expert staff. It has its roots in Ne…

Grant Ennis Explains the Dangers of Corporate Disinformation

Welcome to season three of The Squeaky Wheel Podcast! We’re starting the year with an amazing guest who’s from San Francisco, USA, but lives in Paris, France and lectures for a university based in Melbourne, Australia! Grant also speaks five languages and has previously worked for international a…

Peter Norton Warns Don’t be Dazzled by the “Magic” of Automated Vehicles

This month we’re very excited to be speaking with Associate Professor Peter Norton who is a historian at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville, Virginia, USA. Peter has authored two highly successful and thought-provoking books, “Fighting Traffic, The Dawn of the Motor Age in the American …

Are we being killed by traffic engineers? Shocking revelations from Wes Marshall

Our guest this month is Wes Marshall, Author of the thought provoking book, “Killed by a Traffic Engineer.” This book has certainly ruffled feathers amongst some elements of the traffic engineer “establishment.” So much so that some state DOT’s (Departments of Transport) in the USA have banned the …

How Prue Oswin achieved better outcomes for safe children’s travel

After graduating with degrees in Geography and Environmental Engineering, Prue Oswin spent eight years as a water engineer before switching to active transport in 2009.  Ever since then, Prue has been deeply involved in making her home region of the Sunshine Coast in Queensland a better place to w…

National Transport Conference Special Edition Featuring Keynotes Lucy Saunders and Giles Perkins

We recorded this month’s episode at the National Transport Conference, that is run each year by the Transport Professionals Association. Both the conference and association have just been rebranded and relaunched by the organisation formerly known as the AITPM. Both Irene and Phil headed to Adelai…

Sam Johnson Reveals the Amazing Potential of the World Bank

The World Bank might not be the first organisation that active travel advocates think of as an important potential partner. But with billions of dollars at their disposal they’ve already been enabling some amazing projects around the world, in part through the work of the highly motivated expert wh…