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The Overhead Wire Daily is a newsletter focused on bringing people news about cities daily. This particular substack is a recreation of the basic version of my daily newsletter started in 2006. As the slow death of Twitter continues, I'm branching out...
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Cap and Fund the Bus (opens the original)
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I’m feeling hopeful today.In California, the way cap and trade is structured, transit can’t benefit directly from selling emissions offsets as it can only be done in the existing market. But in the future it would be nice if agencies were allowed to calculate their net emissions benefits and sell those to a broader carbon market.Thanks for reading The Overhead Wire Daily! Subscribe for free to receive new posts and support my work.<form class="subscription-widget-subscrib
Episode 594: People Based Accessibility (opens the original)
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This week on the Talking Headways podcast we’re joined by recent USC PhD graduate Wendy Zhou to discuss her dissertation, which focuses on dynamic accessibility. We talk about how static maps without a time based dimension don’t tell the whole story on access and the idea of a people based accessibility.Listen to this episode at Streetsblog USAFind this episode and all episodes in <a href="https://streetsblog.libsyn.com/episode-594-people-based-accessibi
Episode 593: Carspreading (opens the original)
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This week we’re joined by Sofia Navas and James Nix of the NGO Transport & Environment to talk about their recent report: Ever Bigger? Car Size at a Crossroads. We discuss the increasing size of vehicles and why they keep growing. The safety issues that are tied to vehicle size increases, and the amount of parking and public space that could be lost.Listen to this episode at Streetsblog USAFind this episode and all previous episodes <a href="http
Episode 198: Mondays at The Overhead Wire - Creating Systemic Change (opens the original)
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This week we’re Han Solo, but that won’t stop us from sharing some interesting news including daylighting urban streams, why we shouldn’t put everything on transit, Barcelona’s e-bike subsidy, and Charlotte’s value created. You can listen to this episode at The Overhead Wire or in your podcatcher of choice.Thanks for reading The Overhead Wire Daily!
Episode 592: New Tricks for Old Bureaucracies (opens the original)
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This week on the Talking Headways podcast we’re joined by Joshua Schank to talk about his book New Tricks for Old Bureaucracies: Improving Policy Outcomes in the Public Sector. Joshua talks about the inner workings of LA Metro, benefits of openness and transparency as well as strategic planning. We also share frustrations about meetings, transit board structures,
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