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

New research from RMIT Centre for Urban Research discusses how Melbourne hasn’t seen an equal increase in transportation investment compared to housing growth. An 88% increase in housing has only gotten a 5% increase in transport services. I found this general idea and discussion really interesting because it reminded me of the chicken and egg

This week we’re joined by Sara Stickler, President and CEO of WTS International. We discuss how WTS highlights women’s expertise in transportation and how they create opportunities from mentorship to leadership and education. We also chat about some of their legislative priorities on workplace policy as well as some of the barriers women face in

It looks like most if not all subscribers got yesterday’s email after we had an issue with Microsoft Outlook delivery in the last few weeks. If you are missing some emails that you wanted to read the news from, let me know and I’ll forward them along. All the longer form intros are at The

Last week we posted a very popular piece about how fire departments should be rethinking how they approach safety to encompass more than just fire safety in buildings.  Since they are often the first responders in car collisions and calls about homelessness, their prescriptions for urban policy might change. This means thinking about what it

This week we’re featuring a one to one conversation between Billy Terry, Executive Director of the National Transit Institute at Rutgers University, and India Birdsong Terry, General Manager and CEO of the Greater Cleveland Regional Transit Authority. They discuss leadership, hiring, and culture change at Ohio’s largest transit agency. This podcast was produced in partnership