This week on Mondays at The Overhead Wire, we’re Han Solo. But that doesn’t preclude us from sharing the news from the last few weeks including items on work from home serendipity, weaponizing environmental law, and the suspension of Cruise self driving vehicles. Listen in below and check out the show notes below the fold.

This week on the Talking Headways podcast we’re joined by Danielle Arigoni, Managing Director for Policy and Solutions at The National Housing Trust. We chat about Danielle’s new book Climate Resilience for an Aging Nation as well as housing policy that benefits everyone. You can find Danielle’s book at our Bookshop Affiliate site or at

This week on the Talking Headways Podcast we’re joined by transit expert and former general manager for three transit systems Ron Kilcoyne. Ron joins us to talk about the importance of running frequent transit service in order to attract riders and how agencies in the Bay Area are underserving the population. Find Ron’s Streetsblog SF

This week on Talking Headways we’re chatting with professor Des Fitzgerald about his new book The Living City: Why Cities Don’t Need to Be Green to Be Great. We chat about what trees mean to people, the proliferation of moguls that want to build new cities, and the idea of what makes the good city.

This week we’re joined by Chris Fabian of Resource X to talk about his work on priority based budgeting. We discuss how cities create budgets that reflect their policy goals and what it takes to find resources for big ideas. You can listen to this episode at Streetsblog USA or find it in the hosting

This week on the Mondays show we’re Han Solo! But that doesn’t stop us from sharing a lot of news!  The Prime Minister of England has pulled the plug on high speed rail, what the pandemic drop in traffic means for access, designing for autism and much much more! Listen to the episode here: Below

This week we’re joined by Abby Thorne-Lyman, Former Director of Real Estate at BART, to talk about BART’s development projects and priorities, and the importance of real estate to BART’s future. To listen to this episode, visit Streetsblog USA or find it in the archive. Below is a full unedited AI generated transcript of the

This week we’re joined by UC Davis professor Kari Watkins and epidemiologist Dave Ederer to talk about their paper The Safe Systems Pyramid: A New Framework for Traffic Safety. We talk about the connections between transportation and public health and how it allows us to think differently about transportation safety. Find David’s full dissertation on

This week on the Mondays show we catch up on some of the news from the last month and go over what’s coming up on the Talking Headways podcast. We talk about post-pandemic transportation, sea level rise impacts on shipping and drinking water, and the world’s smallest skyscraper. Show Note Links Below the fold…

This week we’re joined by Bob Searns to talk about his book Beyond Greenways: The Next Step for City Trails and Walking Routes. We talk about grand ideas for walking trails that circle whole regions and more local routes that make up a new mode of green infrastructure in cities. To listen to this episode,