Two things we’re thinking about today. First, we’ve been talking and sharing a lot about the insurance industry and the impacts of climate change on housing markets. We’ve also discussed car insurance and the rising expense of cars and increased exposure to collisions. So today, Lloyd Alter discusses why cars should be designed for disassembly
This week we’re joined by Wes Marshall, Civil Engineering Professor at the University of Colorado at Denver to talk about his book Killed by a Traffic Engineer: Shattering the Delusion that Science Underlies our Transportation System. We chat about writing process, the ideas of risk and exposure, and what he learned from pouring over old transportation
An article in the Las Vegas Review Journal noted that local home builders believe that there’s only 8 years of land available for building in the region. It was the source of jokes on Twitter because the idea that these home builders couldn’t go vertical was quite funny to many posters. But it is an
The (de)congestion pricing saga continues as MTA Chair and CEO Janno Lieber has held a press conference and seemingly pushed back on Governor Hochul’s last minute rug pull by saying the agency isn’t giving up on (de)congestion pricing. On the other side of the Atlantic Ocean in Wales, the country’s leading car insurance company has
This week on Mondays at The Overhead Wire we go into depth on the past week in New York City and Governor Kathy Hochul’s attempt to end a (de)congestion pricing program that was going to begin on June 30th. We’re joined by Ben Kabak of Second Avenue Sagas to go over all the details. Links
Well that blew up today’s news… Yesterday New York Governor Kathy Hochul announced that she was going to kill (de)congestion pricing just a month before the first toll would have been collected. The $15 toll to enter Manhattan below 60th street would likely revolutionize transportation policy in not just New York City but North America
This week on Talking Headways we’re joined by Michael Batty, Professor of Planning at the University College London. We chat about his book The Computable City: Histories, Technologies, Stories, Predictions which includes histories of computing, smart city critiques, what the discourse on AI should really be about, and discussions on the future of urban forms.
Interesting news out of Boston as the commuter rail lines of the MBTA are now at close to full pre-pandemic ridership. One of the changes since before the pandemic is running more mid-day train service because all the trains aren’t tied up in peak hour rush. They are also adding later night and weekend service
This week we’re joined by Cleveland journalist Ken Prendergast to talk about intercity passenger rail in greater Ohio. We chat about the competing interests of Brightline and Amtrak and the history of passenger rail planning in the region. Check out Ken’s NEO-trans Blog for more. To listen to this episode, visit Streetsblog USA or our
We’re Han Solo today but no fear we’re flashing back to Episode 211 of the Talking Headways podcast where we chatted with Ralph Buehler about the topic of the German transport concept of Verkehrsverbund. With a lot of talk of regional transportation networks and planning, I thought it might be worth a listen again five
