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

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

Well that blew up today’s news… Yesterday New York Governor Kathy Hochul announced that she was going to kill (de)congestion pricing just a month before the first toll would have been collected. The $15 toll to enter Manhattan below 60th street would likely revolutionize transportation policy in not just New York City but North America

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.

Interesting news out of Boston as the commuter rail lines of the MBTA are now at close to full pre-pandemic ridership. One of the changes since before the pandemic is running more mid-day train service because all the trains aren’t tied up in peak hour rush. They are also adding later night and weekend service