This week we’re chatting with Stacy Mitchell of the Institute of Local Self Reliance about her recent article in the Atlantic entitled The Great Grocery Squeeze. We chat about the deregulation mood of the 70s and 80s and what that’s meant for shopping, access, and how much we drive. To listen to this episode, visit

I’ve ragged on NEPA and CEQA regulations in these newsletters many times before as being too restrictive on good projects that would help the environment. But I would never call for the removal of NEPA implementation regulations over night which is what the Trump administration is proposing in an interim final rule. After the Chevron

This week on the Talking Headways podcast we’re joined by Ren Yee of UN Studio at the Mpact Transit + Community conference in Philadelphia. We chat about the cognitive workload of pedestrians and creating safe opportunities for mind wandering and absorbing information. To listen to this episode, find it at Streetsblog USA or in our

Kea Wilson of Streetsblog USA and I did a Mondays show yesterday where we talked a bout about some of the USDOT memos and rescission of policy direction on diversity, environmental justice, and climate change. We also talk a little about some of the stuff that’s supposed to catch people’s attention for distraction like USDOT

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 We talk about rescinded memos, funding memos, and Kea thinks Jeff might be trying to hard to find logic in the reasoning for using birth and marriage rates to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