This week at Mondays at The Overhead Wire, we’re joined by Streetsblog USA’s Kea Wilson to chat about the new USDOT directives from the Trump administration. We talk about rescinded memos, funding memos, and Kea thinks Jeff might be trying to hard to find logic in the reasoning for using birth and marriage rates to

This week on Talking Headways we’re joined by Member of the Welsh Senedd (Parliament) Lee Waters and Dr. Jennifer Kent of The University of Sydney. They talk about how Wales set climate targets, did a roads review, got to a 20 mile per hour speed limit across the country, and what it might take for

There’s an opinion item in the Charlotte Observer that I think is interesting when it comes to the current fight over urban transportation policy even though it gets some basic facts about Charlotte’s transit planning wrong. Usually I don’t like to promote things I know have factual errors (specifically giving the then Republican mayor way

This week on Talking Headways we’re joined by Mike Eliason of larch lab to discuss his new book Building for People: Designing Livable, Affordable, Low-Carbon Communities. We chat about single stair buildings, development on arterials, building back after climate disasters, and the problem with RFPs. To listen to this episode, visit Streetsblog USA.  Or find

AT&T has decided to sell all of their properties and equipment used to support land lines to a private equity firm for $850m. They’ll lease the properties back until they end service sometime in 2029. I’m not really sad about the end of landlines, but it’s probably a signifier of the end of an era

I’m interested in how the remote work debate plays out. For years I heard people opposed to transit say that telework was the future, death of distance was the rage, and that we won’t need transit if people can work from home. But now that some are able to work from home, many companies and

This week on Mondays at The Overhead Wire we’re Han Solo, but that doesn’t stop us from talking about all the podcasts we’ve got coming up, news about the LA wildfires, modular homes, and surveillance technology. More news than you can use this week on the Talking Headways podcast feed. Find links to the show

This week on Talking Headways we’re joined by Jon Kramer, CEO of engineering and planning firm OHM Advisors. Jon chats about going from Intern to CEO over a 30 year period, competing against large engineering firms, and the state of engineering education. You can listen to this episode by visiting Streetsblog USA or find it

This week on Talking Headways we’re joined by Bridget Marquis, Director of Reimagining the Civic Commons. Bridget chats with us about connecting public assets, the importance of creating metrics that matter, and better ways to think about community engagement. You can listen to this episode at Streetsblog USA and in our archive. below is a

Two everlasting symbols of California are the sequoia and redwood trees. People know the giants from popular culture and national parks but the trees, which are not the same species but related, should also be seen as examples of the ultimate in evolutionary sustainability. The earliest known sequoia fossil is from over 200 million years