Mondays 143: Strictly Limiting Single Occupancy Vehicles

This week on Mondays at The Overhead Wire, we’re Han Solo. But that doesn’t preclude us from sharing the news from the last few weeks including items on work from home serendipity, weaponizing environmental law, and the suspension of Cruise self driving vehicles. Listen in below and check out the show notes below the fold.

Show Notes

Main Items

City serendipity – New York Times

Weaponizing environmental law – Governing

DMV revokes Cruise license – Motherboard

Stanford can’t stop people driving alone – Almanac

Curb management – CNN

Norway looks away from EVs – Vox

Halifax waterfront – Happy Cities

Highway cap pollution – CPR

Wawa design – Slate

Austin parking minimums – Texas Tribune

Essen green city – BBC Travel

Can seawalls save us? New Yorker

Bonus Items

Heart rate data for cycling – Global Cycling Network

Wendy’s redesign for delivery era – Fast Company

Black workers commute longer – Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia

Pollution rule – Grist

ADUs for mortgages – HUD

Desert city piping water from Mexico – Guardian

$6.6B subway – New York Post

Nightmare hurricanes – Washington Post

CTC chair ok with highway widening – Streetsblog CA

LA homeless real estate agent – NPR

Moving the redwoods – NYT Magazine

Cars cancelling energy savings – KPBS

Boulder deconstructs hospital – Colorado Sun

Builder’s Remedy unintended consequence – San Jose Mercury News

EPA reviews salmon killing tire chemical – Transport Topics

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