Back in August we shared a paper on state capacity that was written up in The American Prospect that basically said when transportation departments are looking to resurface roads, the places with more public sector capacity are likely to have more bids and lower construction costs. I thought at the time it’s something that likely

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

One of the things we’ve been thinking about a lot is the idea of transportation infrastructure as a public utility. Now more than ever I believe streets and rights of way are public utilities considering the value of this urban space we use for human transportation and goods movement, water management, and electricity and internet

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. Show note links below:

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. Some websites of note from this episode: Electric

A local group of advocates in San Francisco has launched a campaign for a ballot measure that would tax ride hailing companies such as Uber, Lyft, and Waymo to pay for more Muni service as city revenues suffer from the pandemic re-sort. A ballot measure for regional funding is expected to be sussed out and

After cancelling the 710 highway widening, LA Metro found itself with $743 million to spend elsewhere. A 35 person task force was put together and came up with a plan for spending the money on active transportation, transit, complete streets, safety and more. I’ve been reading Megan Kimble’s book City Limits on Texas’ highway fights

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 To

Piggybacking on yesterday’s item in the Premium newsletter on car insurance driving inflation, I stumbled across this piece on Twitter from November of last year discussing Prop 103 in California which regulates insurance rates. It’s interesting and long but perhaps worth the read if you’ve been itching to dive in on the topic and how

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