{"podcast":{"title":"City Cast Pittsburgh","slug":"city-cast-pittsburgh-4712991","podcast_index_feed_id":4712991,"rss_url":"https://feeds.megaphone.fm/citycastpittsburgh","website_url":"https://pittsburgh.citycast.fm/","image_url":"https://megaphone.imgix.net/podcasts/08ca3b06-5df5-11ec-bca0-7b688233f2b7/image/7edb638a5263471e7b224efa1ff18b6b.jpg?ixlib=rails-4.3.1&max-w=3000&max-h=3000&fit=crop&auto=format,compress","author":"City Cast","episode_count":1112,"summary":"Join Megan Harris and the City Cast Pittsburgh team every weekday morning for a fast-paced daily news podcast that will get you talking and make you question what’s going on here in Western Pennsylvania. City Cast Pittsburgh is a smart new way to connect with neighbors in the Steel City you know and love. Add us to your feeds and subscribe to our daily newsletter, at pittsburgh.citycast.fm.today!","last_synced_at":"2026-07-21T16:17:53.031972+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/city-cast-pittsburgh-4712991"},"episode":{"title":"‘Your City Could Be Better’: Why Are Chattanoogans ‘Doing It Their Damn Selves’? — Presented By City Cast Pittsburgh","slug":"your-city-could-be-better-why-are-chattanoogans-doing-it-their-damn-selves-presented-by-city-cast-pittsburgh","published_at":"2026-07-19T07:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/city-cast-pittsburgh-4712991/your-city-could-be-better-why-are-chattanoogans-doing-it-their-damn-selves-presented-by-city-cast-pittsburgh","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/city-cast-pittsburgh-4712991","url":"https://pdst.fm/e/traffic.megaphone.fm/CC8864836609.mp3","audio_url":"https://pdst.fm/e/traffic.megaphone.fm/CC8864836609.mp3","summary":"Sometimes it can feel like the Pittsburgh government is two (or more) steps behind the needs of its neighborhoods. Enter the residents of Chattanooga, Tennessee. What Chattanoogans don’t have, they make up for in advocacy, whether by showing up to city council and organizing for change or just doing things themselves. City Cast CEO David Plotz sits down with creator and city lover Hope Henchey about how she and her neighbors are sneakily and secretly fixing up their city. You’ve heard of the Nashville bench builders — now get ready for the Chattanooga pothole fillers, sidewalk layers, and (literal) trail blazers. Mentioned on the show: Atlas Obscura feature on the community-built benches in Chattanooga Efforts by Strong Chattanooga to make a path through the woods in a sidewalk-less neighborhood Review of Hoboken's streak of zero traffic fatalities  Is there something your city is doing that we should be talking about? Email David now!  We’re also on Instagram: @yourcitycouldbebetter Looking to advertise on Your City Could Be Better? Check out our options.","meta_description":"Sometimes it can feel like the Pittsburgh government is two (or more) steps behind the needs of its neighborhoods. Enter the residents of Chattanooga, Ten…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":1634,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/city-cast-pittsburgh-4712991/episodes/your-city-could-be-better-why-are-chattanoogans-doing-it-their-damn-selves-presented-by-city-cast-pittsburgh/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/city-cast-pittsburgh-4712991/your-city-could-be-better-why-are-chattanoogans-doing-it-their-damn-selves-presented-by-city-cast-pittsburgh.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}