#9 - Andrew Koskinski: Engineering transport in San Francisco

I can’t think of metropolitan landscape that offers more varied and exciting opportunities for designing transport infrastructure than San Francisco, with its steep hills, its bay, its rapidly changing economy and its tantalisingly separated land masses. In this episode I catch up San Francisco-based transport engineer and old friend Andrew Kosinski and we geek out on transport-related talking points including:

• Bridgoff: Bay vs. Golden Gate
• Tearing down freeways
• Bringing cycling into San Francisco
• Is driving a right and it is a freedom?
• The phenomenon of ‘parklets'
• Tunnelling through ships
• Building towers on weak and shifting sands
• The creative bubble of silicon valley and the unintended consequences
• Autonomous vehicles
• Using firms like Uber to replace under-productive bus routes
• Becoming passive consumers of cities