City rankings are a bunch of nonsense. Most livable city is always dependent on personal preferences and the interpretation of metrics that can be hard to compare apples to apples between cities. Top cities to buy a home and lists like it pop out at us from websites and on social media every day. Long

This week on Mondays at The Overhead Wire we’re joined by Kate Gasparro, host of the Building Better Cities podcast! We talk about the first transit system invented by mathematician Blaise Pascal, whether design is making the housing shortage worse, LA Metro’s new Care Based Services Division, and whether Chicago should have taken back it’s

This week Talking Headways is being hosted by our friend Anna Zivarts who guides a panel of elected officials and advocates to talk about the impacts of the Week Without Driving. They look back at 2025’s activities and look forward to this year’s version. Listen to this episode at Streetsblog USA or find it in

This week on the Talking Headways podcast we’re joined by Jake Berman to talk about his book, The Lost Subways of North America: A Cartographic Guide to the Past, Present, and What Might Have Been. We discuss transit histories through the lens of racial dynamics, monopolies, ballot measures, and overlooked cities. Listen to this episode

Uber has been “operationally profitable” for ten quarters according to Andrew Miller. But how did they get there? By exploiting workers and extracting money from customers through algorithms that determine a willingness to pay. This came after functionally getting rid of competition to be the only game in most towns. This was also an exploitation

We’re back for a new year of Mondays at The Overhead Wire!  This week we’re chatting about faster transit, cable cars in the Paris region, congestion pricing and more! Below you’ll find links to the items we discuss during the show…

This week on the Talking Headways podcast we’re back at the Mpact Transit + Community Conference in Portland Oregon at the Mpact Innovators Poster Sessions. We talk with young professionals about the transportation implementation and policy work they’ve been doing in the field including designing new transportation hubs, rethinking parking, and improving bus service. You

Recently journalist and writer David Roberts, who hosts the podcast Volts, had on an interesting guest to talk about misinformation. The guest, Samuel Bragg, and David discussed how the lack of trust in information and truth producing institutions has led to more tribalism and social identity leading to beliefs rather than “truth”.  And because we

This week on the Talking Headways podcast we’re joined by Carter Lavin to discuss his new book If You Want to Win You’ve Got to Fight: A Guide to Effective Transportation Advocacy. We discuss the mess and practice of politics, how we have more power than we think as advocates, and how we can get

In an unsealed lawsuit by the FTC that was dropped by the Trump Administration, evidence was revealed that PepsiCo has been conspiring with WalMart to keep the price of Pepsi’s soft drinks lower at the big box store for the last ten years. Stacy Mitchell of ILSR shared this on Bluesky. Why does this matter