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Mondays 183: Changing Social Identities

January 12, 2026

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…


(Unedited) Podcast Transcript 561: Poster Sessions at Mpact in Portland

January 7, 2026

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


Social Identities for Active Transportation

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


(Unedited) Podcast Transcript 560: If You Want to Win, You’ve Got to Fight

December 17, 2025

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



(Unedited) Podcast Transcript 559: The Unfinished Metropolis

December 10, 2025

This week on the Talking Headways podcast, we’re joined by Benjamin Schneider to talk about his book The Unfinished Metropolis: Igniting the City-Building Revolution. Ben chats about the unfinishedness of cities, the larger origins of NIMBYism, and how much our economy and built environment cater to cars. Listen to this episode at Streetsblog USA. Find


Transportation as Housing Policy

According to a YouGov survey, Americans believe that housing isn’t affordable, but they disagree on why. More than any other reason, people believe mortgage rates or the costs of building materials are culprits. I know from renovating spaces recently that labor costs are one of the big reasons things, at least here in the Bay


Mondays 182: Affordable Housing on Top

December 8, 2025

This week we’re Han Solo but we’re sharing news about fire departments and their impacts on cities, how Boston and Denver are considering putting housing together with other public services like libraries and police stations, and a bill that would allow transit agencies to get projects environmentally certified in state. And much much more!!! Below



One Simple Trick to Add Bike Lanes

The City of Toronto has plans for 20km more bike lanes, pushing back on Premiere Ford’s wishes to rip them out to appease car drivers. To get around any prohibitions and limits, the city will reduce car lane widths in order to give bikes more space, technically within the mandate that the number of vehicle


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