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. To listen to this episode, go to Streetsblog USA or find

Last week we shared an item about NRDC suing Caltrans over highway expansion in California that the State DOT says will reduce emissions. Obviously that claim has been getting a lot of pushback because more lanes often means more driving and even more congestion. But the lawsuit is likely to set a huge precedent in

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

I share a lot of Susan Crawford’s items from her substack Moving Day because it really is sounding an alarm on the issues climate change will soon make us reckon with. Today she’s shares a study that looks at how insurance costs have gone up since 2020 in areas that are at high risk of

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. You can listen to this episode at Streetblog USA or find it in our

Projects dead or dying strewn everywhere. All attacked by killer rabbits. That would be my title if I had to characterize the absurdities that are happening in New York and now Houston. I can only make Monty Python references at this point because my disappointment is high and I need something funny to arrest the

Two things we’re thinking about today. First, we’ve been talking and sharing a lot about the insurance industry and the impacts of climate change on housing markets. We’ve also discussed car insurance and the rising expense of cars and increased exposure to collisions. So today, Lloyd Alter discusses why cars should be designed for disassembly

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

An article in the Las Vegas Review Journal noted that local home builders believe that there’s only 8 years of land available for building in the region. It was the source of jokes on Twitter because the idea that these home builders couldn’t go vertical was quite funny to many posters. But it is an

The (de)congestion pricing saga continues as MTA Chair and CEO Janno Lieber has held a press conference and seemingly pushed back on Governor Hochul’s last minute rug pull by saying the agency isn’t giving up on (de)congestion pricing. On the other side of the Atlantic Ocean in Wales, the country’s leading car insurance company has