This week we're joined by Corrigan Salerno of Transportation For America. We discuss three transportation principles for a better federal transportation bill, how to create better reporting data for MPOs, and better bus manufacturing.

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This week on Mondays at The Overhead Wire we chat about signal timing tinkering in Houston, the impact of commute times on sleep disorders, Phoenix's lack of water for sprawl, and how many times Raleigh had to bid for contractors to build bus rapid transit.

Below are the show notes:

Houston signal timing off - Rice Thresher

Whitmire thinks he knows - New York Times

Sleep impacted by commutes - SciTechDaily

Lifting the smog in Santiago - Guardian

Raleigh BRT contracting - News and Observer

Phoenix has no water for sprawl - High Country News

Crypto noise - The Texas Tribune

Caltrain puts energy in the grid - Metro Magazine

China's lower tier cities and retail - Campaign 

The retail hits different - The Overhead Wire

Everything SB79 - Arbitrary Lines

Urban hoofprints - University of Michigan

Highway repair better than expansion - SSTI

US dangerous car standards - Transport and Environment

Land trust affortability - Realtor.com

Waymo and accepting death - Futurism

New census data - Niskanen Center

Secret to Norway's EV success - Energy.digital

China EVs off five year plan - Reuters

Bonus Items

New vehicles top $50K - CNBC

How Vancouver's Translink escaped death spiral - Bloomberg CityLab

Bike sharing boon - Cities Today

Smart phone data and trips - TechExplore

Milwaukee tows reckless drivers - Urban Milwaukee

St. Louis green infrastructure - Reasons to be Cheerful

Stone buildings reduce emissions - BBC

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This week we're joined once again by Sam Sargent of VTA for part 2 of a conversation about transit agencies and special projects and programs. Sam chats with us about Austin's light rail plans, Caltrain electrification and moving diesels to Peru, and gives some thoughts on visionary transit leadership such as Randy Clarke at WMATA.

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This week on Talking Headways we're joined by Adriana Rizzo of Californians for Electric Rail. We chat about freight and warehousing growth in California's Inland Empire, the benefits of train electrification and a new California CEQA exemption push for overhead wires, and why hydrogen trains are getting more attention.

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This week on the Mondays show, we're Han Solo but have a lot of interesting items about shorter work weeks, children's brains and the impact of traffic noise, overbuilt retail, and highway expansion and climate change.  

Below are the links and show notes:

News Items

Supreme court overturns Chevron - Grist

Supreme court on homeless - Governing

Traffic and children's brains - BBC Future

Retail vacancies - Slate

Highway expansion and climate - LA Times

Colorado creating tenant value - Shelterforce

Four day work week - Barcelona Metropolis

VMT Place Types - CTOD

Bonus Items

Children's play and climate change - Houstonia Magazine

Stable housing for kids - NPR

NJ Transit funding - NorthJersey.com

Listener Questions + Comments

SBA Small Business resilience - SBA

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On this fourth of July special replay of Talking Headways we're going back to Episode 382 with Alix Gould-Werth and Alex Murphy discussing their work on transportation insecurity.  Anna Zivarts mentioned this work in her book and recently on the podcast and I think it's really important to share it again.  Hope everyone has a great holiday and we'll see you with a new episode next week.

This week, Alix Gould-Werth of the Washington Center for Equitable Growth, and Alex Murphy, assistant professor of sociology at the University of Michigan, talk about their transportation security index.

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This week on Talking Headways we're chatting with Tracy Hadden Loh of the Brookings Institute about impacts of the pandemic on downtowns, activity centers, and transit usage. We chat about creating activity center cluster maps and a recent report entitled Building Better on Philadelphia.

Articles of note from the discussion:

Mapping America's Activity Centers - Brookings

Ensuring the intertwined post-pandemic recoveries of downtowns and transit systems - Brookings

Building Better - Brookings

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We're Han Solo this week on Mondays at The Overhead Wire but that doesn't stop us from covering a lot of ground from the last several weeks. We chat about how climate change could impact infrastructure building, the death of Houston's University Line, and Boston's commuter rail ridership success compared to before the pandemic. We cover a lot more but listen in to find out!

Below are links to the items we discussed on today's show!

Banks realize climate risk - Wired Magazine

Risk of property insurance increase - Moving Day

Talking Headways Podcast - In a Bad State

Metro shelves University Corridor - Houston Public Media

Mexico city running under water - New York Times

Bogota water restrictions - Bloomberg CityLab

Boston commuter rail comeback - Route Fifty

Small future of housing - Fast Company

Cities come alive after hours - Washington Post

Medical insurer pledges for housing - Yahoo News

Denmark's fix for mortgage rate jumps - Business Insider

Colorado's new approach to highways - New York Times

Wyoming road failure opens housing discussion - Whitehall Ledger

Bonus Items

Health impacts of station areas - MedicalXpress

Put lazy money to work - Governing

Curbing costs from "betterments" - The Urbanist

Bike lanes reduce traffic speeds - Rutgers

Homeless Angelino takes over previous house - Los Angeles Times

Homeowners want prices to go up - The American Prospect

A conditional contract - Equipment World

$100K for every new Canadian home - Toronto Star

Connecting North and South Stations - Boston Globe

Deep sea mining not necessary - Frontier Group

Self driving, but not at dusk or dawn - Australian Broadcasting News

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This week on Talking Headways I'm joined by SPUR's Laura Tolkoff to interview Anna Zivarts about her new book: When Driving Is Not an Option: Steering Away from Car Dependency.  We chat about non-drivers, car seats, and the week without driving.  

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This week we're joined by Wes Marshall, Civil Engineering Professor at the University of Colorado at Denver to talk about his book Killed by a Traffic Engineer: Shattering the Delusion that Science Underlies our Transportation System. We chat about writing process, the ideas of risk and exposure, and what he learned from pouring over old transportation engineering journals.

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This week on Mondays at The Overhead Wire we go into depth on the past week in New York City and Governor Kathy Hochul's attempt to end a (de)congestion pricing program that was going to begin on June 30th. We're joined by Ben Kabak of Second Avenue Sagas to go over all the details.

Links discussed on the show: Riders Alliance | Transportation Alternatives

Also huge shout to Streetsblog NYC for some great reporting on this topic

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This week on Talking Headways we're joined by Michael Batty, Professor of Planning at the University College London. We chat about his book The Computable City: Histories, Technologies, Stories, Predictions which includes histories of computing, smart city critiques, what the discourse on AI should really be about, and discussions on the future of urban forms.

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This week we're joined by Cleveland journalist Ken Prendergast to talk about intercity passenger rail in greater Ohio.  We chat about the competing interests of Brightline and Amtrak and the history of passenger rail planning in the region.

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This week on Talking Headways we're joined by Sam Sargent of VTA, formerly Caltrain and Capital Metro, for part 1 of a conversation about transit agencies and special projects and programs. This week Sam chats with us about VTA's history, current projects and future prospects in the South Bay.

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We're Han Solo today but no fear we're flashing back to Episode 211 of the Talking Headways podcast where we chatted with Ralph Buehler about the topic of the German transport concept of Verkehrsverbund.  With a lot of talk of regional transportation networks and planning, I thought it might be worth a listen again five years later. 

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This week on Talking Headways we're joined by Erin Clark, Chief Real Estate Investment Officer of the Denver Housing Authority. We chat about the redevelopment of Sun Valley, a public housing project built in the 1950s that is being reinvigorated by new investments in public housing, parks, and community.  

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This week we're joined once again by Jarrett Walker to talk about the release of the revised edition of his influential book Human Transit.  We chat about Ursula Le Guin, expanding access to opportunity, how to think about transit riders, the free transit movement and thoughts on anger as a response to change.

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This week we're Han Solo but have a lot of news to cover including items on skateboarding, new types of segregation, third places, and some ancient ways to cool cities and streets. 

Check out the show notes below for more information. 

Notes:

Skateboarding - Reasons to be Cheerful

Cityhood - Corner Side Yard

Cleveland rail competitors - NEOtrans

Third Places - Vox

Second Best - Bloomberg CityLab

Access Maps - New Urban Order

Ancient water tunnels - Al Jazeera

Like two mortgages - Moving Day

Brightline to Vegas - Smart Cities Dive

Agglomeration after pandemic - Business Insider

Bonus Items

Harnessing land - Los Angeles Times

Interstate speed limits - Streetsblog USA

Taiwan urban mining - Time Magazine

Zoning rule in CA shut down - Los Angeles Times

Taxes raised for child care - Associated Press

CO gas truce for transit funds - CPR

Cincinnati Solar Array - WVXU

E-bikes reduce VMT - CTV News

CA TX on same path - Real Estate Economics Journal

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This week we're joined by Megan Kimble to talk about her book City Limits: Infrastructure, Inequality, and the Future of America's Highways. We chat about the folks fighting back against highways, the history behind building big roads, and what the future looks like for advocacy.

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This week were sharing part 2 of our discussion with Jim Kumon. We chat about the challenges of development, how to crowdfund a building, coming to the end of an 80 year economic cycle, how the built environment is an outcome of how we structure capital, and how more information can make it harder to learn new things.

Some websites of note:

Electric Housing

Incremental Development Alliance

Passive House Crowdfund

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This week on Mondays at The Overhead Wire we're joined by Tracy McMillan to talk about aging in place, Nashville's big transit plan, potential Alzheimer's causes in car exhaust, Milan's famous weeks, and the Colorado legislature's search for more housing and TOD. 

Articles

Aging in place - New York Times

Nashville's transit plans - Nashville Tennessean

Alzheimer's and car exhaust - Clean Technica

Colorado density laws - Colorado Politics

Milan's commercial weeks - Domus Web

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This week we're joined by Jim Kumon, Principal at Electric Housing, to discuss his work as a developer and urban policy educator in the Twin Cities. We chat about his sustainable development project, what St. Paul learned from Minneapolis 2040 and how zoning reform and transportation intersect.

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Sundial Building

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This week we're joined by Gabe Klein, Executive Director of the Joint Office of Energy and Transportation. We chat about the Joint Office's white paper focused on best practices and solutions for electric vehicle charging entitled: Community Charging: Emerging Multifamily, Curbside, and Multimodal Practices. 

White Paper Link

The EV Charging Infrastructure Playbook - Link

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Happy Mondays!  This week on Mondays at The Overhead Wire we're Han Solo again but we have a lot to catch up on.  We're going over some of the news we didn't get to when we were away in China for a month.  We cover LA's spongy infrastructure, an idea to connect zoning reform to transportation funding, and the transition from governments incentivizing retail businesses to warehousing infrastructure.  Of course there's more but listen in to hear everything we share.

Main News

Also below is are the links to the items we covered on the show:

Los Angeles Spongy City - Wired Magazine

Local governments new plans for public housing - Vox

Toronto streetcar speeds up - Blog TO

Smaller houses for smaller prices - New York Times

Zoning for transportation funds - FAS

Canadian feds will stop investing in roads - CBC News

Cell phone distracted drivers - Vox

Rent killing sex? - Discourse Lounge

Mexico City water shortage - CNN

Retail attraction strategies - Time

Deadliest Intersections - Stacker

Reviewing smooth cities - The Nation

Transport equity tool - Streetsblog CA

Health benefits ULEZ/LTNs - Guardian | Guardian

Climate boomtowns - The Atlantic

Profit sharing for cities - Governing

The Great Asynchonization - Transportist

Death of the small car - Autopian

Fire department policy - Thesis Driven

AI Generated visuals - MIT News

Houston Mayor - Texas Monthly

Building deconstruction - Smart Cities Dive

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This week we're Han Solo but have a lot of great news to share. We talk about the smartest city in the world, Toronto's TOD ambitions, electric car range and much much more!

Below are items we shared on the show:

Main Items

Toronto's TOD - Brandon Donnelly

The smartest city - Reasons to be Cheerful

Less range - InsideEVs

Future of cooling is past - Atmos

Grocery robot - The Verge

DOT repaints Pulse crosswalk - Orlando Sentinel

Homes made by robots - LA Business Journal

Mercator Africa - NPR

Bonus Items!

Tax the rich - Commonwealth Beacon

Construction Bubble - Yanko Design

EV charger pollution - Electrive

EVs cost more - Heatmap

Heatwave aging - New York Times

Tampa transit - Florida Politics

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This week we're joined by Sara Stickler, President and CEO of WTS International. We discuss how WTS highlights women's expertise in transportation and how they create opportunities from mentorship to leadership and education. We also chat about some of their legislative priorities on workplace policy as well as some of the barriers women face in the field.

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This week we're featuring a one to one conversation between Billy Terry, Executive Director of the National Transit Institute at Rutgers University, and India Birdsong Terry, General Manager and CEO of the Greater Cleveland Regional Transit Authority. They discuss leadership, hiring, and culture change at Ohio's largest transit agency. 

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This week on Mondays at The Overhead Wire Jeff talks about his month long trip to China. Subways, multi-use paths, urbanism and more! We chat about Chinese mall culture, great food, and a really cool station design in Shenzhen.

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This week we're sharing a San Francisco Planning and Urban Research (SPUR) forum on how a statewide coalition of transit advocates were able to organize a funding bridge to avert a fiscal cliff for transit operators in the state. The discussion led by SPUR's Laura Tolkoff, shares how they did it and what's next.

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Rebecca Long / Director, Legislation & Public Affairs, Bay Area Metro      

Cyrus Hall / Independent Sustainable Transportation Advocate      

Zack Deutsch-Gross / Policy Director, Transform CA      

Raayan Mohtashemi / Legislative Aide, Office of California State Senator Scott Wiener      

Monique Webster / Regional Government Affairs Manager, SFMTA

Adina Levin / Policy Director and Co-Founder, Seamless Bay Area

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This week we're joined by Heidi Simon, Director of Thriving Communities at Smart Growth America. Heidi talks about lessons learned from Complete Streets Leadership Academies as state and local officials and advocates work to create safer streets through quick build projects.

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This week we're joined by vehicle designer Dan Sturges to talk about his book Near to Far: A Design for a new and Equitable Transportation System. We talk about new ways of thinking about vehicle design, mobility for low density areas, as well as pop culture perceptions of small vehicles.

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This week we're featuring a 1 to 1 conversation between Adelee Le Grand of Intellectual Concepts and Scott Wilkinson of AlphaVu. They chat about how transit agencies can get a better handle on how riders and non-riders alike feel about their service.

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This week we're joined by skateboard advocate Aaron Breetwor, brand manager for Comet Skateboards. Aaron chats about using skateboards for transportation, designing streets for safer skateboarding, and this last years incident at the Dolores Street hill bomb.

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Prediction Time! This week on part 2 of our chat with Yonah Freemark, we score our transportation predictions from last year and make new ones for 2025. We talk about the Roosevelt Subway, Transit agency bailouts, open gangway trains, and coming transit elections and extensions. 

You can find Transit Explorer through the Transport Politic. 

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This week on the Talking Headways podcast we're joined once again by transportation and housing expert Yonah Freemark. In part 1 we talk about the equitable distribution of transportation grants, potential for flex funding for transit, and our annual transit openings discussion.

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This week on the Talking Headways podcast we're joined by professor Daniel Wortel-London to discuss his new book The Menace of Prosperity: New York City and the Struggle for Economic Development, 1875–1981.  We talk about urban growth and missed opportunities by reformers to allow cities to capture more of their value. We discuss Henry George and the land tax movement, what running a city like a business should really mean, and the origins of "highest and best use". There are also cameos by Lewis Mumford and Jane Jacobs.

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This week on Mondays at The Overhead Wire we're Han Solo.  The news continues and so do we.  We chat about productive transit subsidies, transportation flex funding, and a coming connection between trees and health!  Join us below for the show notes:

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News Items

Keys to happiness - Business Insider

Transit subsidy - Streetsblog USA

Truck insurance - Streetsblog USA

Flex funding - New York Focus

Rotterdam flood management - Guardian

Non subsidized affordable housing - CalMatters

Indian railway electrification - Energy Monitor

A mogul battles the subway - Hollywood Reporter

Alzheimers design - Guardian

Trees and health - Washington Post

Bonus Items

Bike friendly cities safe for all road users - Momentum Mag

Paris SUV Tax - Le Parisien

NYPHA bribery scandal - Motherboard

Power outages longer in poor areas - Route Fifty

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This week we're joined by Elaine Clegg, CEO of Valley Regional Transit in Boise Idaho.  We chat about how the Boise bus system is changing, the impact of fast regional growth, energy infrastructure and favorite transportation board games.

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This week we're joined by Dr. Kathryn Howell, Director of the National Center for Smart Growth at the University of Maryland. We talk about her daily e-bike commute, organizing around the Purple Line, the importance of eviction data, and commercial displacement.

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This week on the podcast we're Han Solo but we've got some great news and information for you including items on Beverly Hills residents being denied permits for underground pools, we've got money for transit operations in a house bill, and we're noticing the Introvert Economy is in full swing.  Come join us, we were told there would be no math in podcasting, but it turns out that's just not true.

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Main News

Transit agencies are climate agencies - Heat Map

Beverly hills permits blocked - Guardian

Federal ops funding - Smart Cities Dive

Introvert economy - Bloomberg

Environmental culture war - The Atlantic

TfL open loop - Railway Technology

Universal basic mobility - NextCity

Delivery's pollution problem - Smart Cities Dive

Insurance creeping up - Fast Company

Prevent building collapse - The Conversation

Bonus Items

Compact cities reduce emissions - ITDP

New York + pool - Dwell

Seoul climate card - ITS International

Boomer empty nesters - Redfin

Buy, don't build affordable housing - The Citizen

FEMA disaster resilience zones - Smart Cities Dive

KC free transit - KCUR

Right on red - CNN

Road diet success - WFYI Cincinnati

Barcelona sustainable journeys - Smart Cities World

Climate change potholes - BBC Future

OK City tall building - CNN

Puppies and Butterflies

Jet Lag: The Game on Youtube

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This week we're joined by Angie Schmitt, Owner and Principal at 3MPH Planning and Consulting. We chat about changing travel behavior in cities, the impact of recent social isolation on social trust, and polarization in policy solutions.

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This week we're joined by Beth Osborne, Vice President for Transportation and Thriving Communities at Smart Growth America.  We chat about the Greenhouse Gas Emissions Measure Rule that will make State DOTs and MPOs measure emissions on the federal highway system. We also talk about how Beth thinks we have things lining up for positive change, politics of implementing rules, and how the NTSB treats air travel and surface transportation so differently.

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This week on Mondays we're Han Solo! We've got a great set of news items for your consideration.  We talk about manufactured housing, dangerous driving, Winnipeg transit, and a Pew study about housing supply in Minneapolis with some interesting results. 

Below are links to the items we shared on the show.

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Manufactured housing - Fast Company

Auto companies paid Tesla - Frontier Group

Emissions big wins - Wired Magazine

Winnipeg master plan - The Free Press

Dangerous driving - NYT Magazine

Land use reform works - Route Fifty

Reduce speeds for climate - Policy Options Politiques

Pittsburgh innovates on stormwater - Allegheny Front

Bonus Items

Greyhound land - CNN

Rents and death - CNBC

Vernacular cooling - Washington Post

Medellin cooling - European Sting

Why EVs haven't taken off - Business Insider

Nashville transit plan - Governing

Sugar Taxes - NPR

Agency consolidation - SF Chronicle

Atlanta e-bike incentives - Atlanta Journal Constitution

Drinking water nanoplastics - Los Angeles Times

Walmart drone deliveries - Transport Topics

Room matching - Fox 5 San Diego

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This week we're joined by John King, Urban Design Critic at the SF Chronicle, to talk about his book Portal: San Francisco's Ferry Building and the Reinvention of American Cities. We chat about the history of the Ferry Building in San Francisco which was one of the busiest city transportation hubs in the world in the early 1900s and how the building has evolved over time parallel to the ups and downs of cities.

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We're back from the new year but no so back that I have enough material for a Mondays show.  So as we started doing at the end of last year, I'm going to throw in a throwback Talking Headways from time to time to go back to some episodes I found interesting and perhaps mention more than a few times during current interviews.

This episode specifically is with Clayton Nall about his book The Road to Inequality: How the Federal Highway Program Polarized America and Undermined Cities and originally was released 6 years ago in July of 2018. Clayton is now a professor at UC Santa Barbara but his book and work still ring true.

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This week we're joined by Dr. Shima Hamidi, Assistant Professor at Johns Hopkins University to talk about the report: A National Investigation of the Impacts of Lane Width on Traffic Safety.  We chat about the data they collected for 1,100 streets, how narrowing streets can create more space for bikes and peds and how the study and determined narrower lanes are safer.

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This week we're joined by Ryan Russo, Executive Director of the National Association of City Transportation Officials (NACTO). Ryan shares with us more wisdom from the revised Urban Bikeway Design Guide and discusses the transformation of street systems and managing space for people and deliveries.

NACTO Urban Bikeway Design Guide Online | Physical Book

Urban Delivery by Bike Practitioner Paper

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This week is the netherweek between Christmas and New Years but we've got a great show for you from the podcast Transit Unplugged. In this specific episode Paul Comfort interviews WMATA General Manager Randy Clarke.

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This week we're joined once again by Congressman Earl Blumenauer of Oregon's 3rd District. We chat about connections between health care, food and transportation, progress on the Inflation Reduction Act and IIJA infrastructure bills, and future directions for transportation funding.

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This week on Mondays at The Overhead Wire we celebrate the end of the year with stories from Colorado on the governor's transit wishes for next year, learning about the new federal Emerging Project Agreement, Salt Lake's downtown success, and how Europe wants to ban large US trucks. Hang in there with us as we finish 2023 off right.

New Stories

Colorado governor climate links - CPR

Emerging project agreements - Philadelphia Citizen

Bogota BRT politics - New York Times

Salt Lake City's booming downtown - Governing

Jakarta's sinking solution - Boomberg CityLab

US trucks in Europe - Transport & Environment

Colfax BRT land use - Denver Urbanism

Two schemes for fighting poverty - Governing

Deadly indoor air pollution - Salon

Bonus Items

Seattle climate goals don't match bike network - Urbanist

Free rides reduce emissions - CPR

Sports teams entertainment districts - Guardian

Congestion pricing - Bloomberg CityLab

Housing and death certificates - Route Fifty

MAAS tied to carbon credits - City Fix

Nighttime traffic deaths - New York Times

Canada pre-designed housing - Bloomberg CityLab

SoCal commute burden - Los Angeles Times

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