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Episode 166: Mondays at The Overhead Wire - More Trains, Less Kings

25 Feb 2025 · 41 min

This week on Mondays at The Overhead Wire we're Han Solo! But don't worry, we cover a lot of ground including congestion pricing's sparing match with a wannabe King, Canada's high speed rail plans, microplastics, and a big bike experiment in Denver.

For more links to items discussed on the show, see below:

USDOT wants end to congestion pricing - Streetsblog NYC

Seattle social housing gets yes vote - Cascade PBS

Canada plans HSR - CBC News

Woodlands eco-burb - Planetizen

Denver bike experiment - Denverite

Microplastics - Washington Post

Vehicle plastics found in Alps - Guardian

100 fewer killed with 20mph speed limits - BBC

Right on red danger for peds - Smart Cities Dive

Capital Gains slowing housing? - Fortune

Miami's trash nightmare - Washington Post

BONUS ITEMS

Caltrain More Efficient - Metro Magazine

Black residents pay price for climate change - Time Magazine

Languages lost to climate change - NOEMA

Brake dust more harmful now - Yale e360

EVs generally produce less non-exhaust emissions - Virginia Tech

(Thanks Nick for that one!)

Autonomous cars don't understand blind - University of Maryland

Safe planning for women - NZZ

Better barriers needed - Traffic Technology International

Atlanta's housing plans - Guardian

Rail accuses trucking of road subsidies - Roll Call

Cambridge ends single family zoning - Harvard Crimson

Senators wants $1K EV tax - Reuters

Cairo's garbage city the envy of world - African Arguments

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Links in the notes 20

• https://nyc.streetsblog.org/2025/02/19/breaking-trump-withdraws-federal-approval-for-congestion-pricing-hole-blown-in-transit-repair-budget
• https://www.cascadepbs.org/politics/2025/02/seattle-poised-pass-excess-compensation-tax-social-housing
• https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/trudeau-announces-high-speed-rail-quebec-toronto-1.7462538
• https://www.planetizen.com/features/134332-retro-silient-americas-first-eco-burb-woodlands-turns-50
• https://denverite.com/2025/02/05/denver-paid-to-bike-experiment/
• https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2025/02/03/microplastics-human-brain-increase/
• https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/feb/04/vehicle-tyres-found-to-be-biggest-source-of-nanoplastics-in-the-high-alps
• https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c78w1891z03o
• https://www.smartcitiesdive.com/news/right-turns-on-red-light-put-pedestrians-at-risk-mineta-study/738332/
• https://finance.yahoo.com/news/outdated-irs-tax-law-unchanged-080100554.html
• https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-solutions/2025/01/28/miami-waste-to-energy-incinerator/
• https://www.metro-magazine.com/10234938/caltrains-electric-fleet-more-efficient-than-expected
• https://time.com/7210649/climate-housing-black-communities-essay/
• https://www.noemamag.com/the-languages-lost-to-climate-change/
• https://e360.yale.edu/digest/brake-pads-lung-damage-study
• https://news.vt.edu/articles/2025/02/vtti-research-particulate-matter-emissions.html
• https://today.umd.edu/autonomous-cars-dont-understand-how-blind-people-move-around-a-research-team-is-trying-to-boost-safety
• https://www.nzz.ch/english/in-swedens-north-a-city-where-women-feel-safe-ld.1869654
• https://www.traffictechnologytoday.com/opinion/opinion-do-we-need-new-barrier-safety-standards-for-evs.html
• https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/feb/09/atlanta-affordable-housing

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