# Episode 573: Civil Rights Enforcement in Transportation Projects

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Podcast: [Talking Headways: A Streetsblog Podcast](https://stenobird.com/podcast/talking-headways-a-streetsblog-podcast-170084)
Published: 2026-04-02T04:44:00+00:00
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## Resource

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

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