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The Overhead Wire Daily | July 17th, 2024 | Rent Caps

July 17, 2024

I want to circle back to something that was posted Monday on a rent cap proposal and discussed more yesterday. I see a lot of hand wringing over the policy of rent control generally on social media so I wanted to jump in and see what the idea is overall. First there are a lot


The Overhead Wire Daily | July 11th, 2024 | Two Systems and Two Wheels

July 11, 2024

One interesting item at least for me today is the Associated Press piece on delivery company Door Dash and the pressure they are feeling to reduce dangerous driving by drivers on two wheels. What strikes me about this is that often vehicle laws in the Untied States are written with cars in mind, and so


(Unedited) Podcast Transcript 490: Electrify the Rails

This week on Talking Headways we’re joined by Adriana Rizzo of Californians for Electric Rail. We chat about freight and warehousing growth in California’s Inland Empire, the benefits of train electrification and a new California CEQA exemption push for overhead wires, and why hydrogen trains are getting more attention. You can listen to this episode


The Overhead Wire Daily | July 9th | Access as Policy

July 9, 2024

Two items today (Lincoln Institute | New York Times feat. Economic Renaissance Group) point at an economic growth surge amongst historically strong but weakened midwestern and southeastern industrial cities and counties. The two pieces point at two different potential reasons for the change; industrial policy and finance and a surge in startups that could signal


Mondays 155: Four Day Workweek

This week on the Mondays show, we’re Han Solo but have a lot of interesting items about shorter work weeks, children’s brains and the impact of traffic noise, overbuilt retail, and highway expansion and climate change. Below are the links and show notes: News Items Supreme court overturns Chevron – Grist Supreme court on homeless



The Overhead Wire Daily | June 27th | Work Week Transportation

June 27, 2024

Barcelona Metropolis shares the idea of moving to a four day work week in hopes of increasing the amount of leisure time people have, which in turn could boost civic participation and reduce emissions from transportation. They took note of a month in Valencia Spain in holidays in the month of April meant four weeks


(Unedited) Podcast Transcript 489: Post-Peaky Transit

June 26, 2024

This week on Talking Headways we’re chatting with Tracy Hadden Loh of the Brookings Institute about impacts of the pandemic on downtowns, activity centers, and transit usage. We chat about creating activity center cluster maps and a recent report entitled Building Better on Philadelphia. To listen to this episode, go to Streetsblog USA or find


The Overhead Wire Daily | June 26th | Highway Leadership

Last week we shared an item about NRDC suing Caltrans over highway expansion in California that the State DOT says will reduce emissions. Obviously that claim has been getting a lot of pushback because more lanes often means more driving and even more congestion. But the lawsuit is likely to set a huge precedent in


Mondays 154: Dead University Line

June 25, 2024

We’re Han Solo this week on Mondays at The Overhead Wire but that doesn’t stop us from covering a lot of ground from the last several weeks. We chat about how climate change could impact infrastructure building, the death of Houston’s University Line, and Boston’s commuter rail ridership success compared to before the pandemic. We


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