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Episode 168: Mondays at The Overhead Wire - Lego Not Legos
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Episode Episode 168: Mondays at The Overhead Wire - Lego Not Legos
This week on Monday's we're Han Solo, but don't let the smuggler fool you, we've got some great loot in the cargo hold. We chat about states focusing on shifting road funds to active transportation, a Brooklyn apartment building put together like a lego set, and a battery fire used to oppose batteries. Lots of great items this week, below are the show notes!
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Show Notes:
States push shift to active modes - Associated Press
Apartment complex built like Lego - Fast Company
State capacity crisis - Niskanen Center
Paris roads car free - Reuters
Battery foes radicalized - Heatmap
E-bike love - The Atlantic
User pay myth - Union of Concerned Scientists
Bonds non taxable - Tax Policy Center
When climate adaptation goes private - Moving Day
Minimalism suffocating architecture - NSS Magazine
Clearing in the Woods - Landzine
Bonus Items
Milwaukee could create transit authority - Urban Milwaukee
Recycling buildings - The Guardian
Amtrak CEO steps down - Associated Press
Saving fireplace tiles - New York Times
Quick build Sacramento - Sacramento Bee
Sound transit picks Dow Constantine - Urbanist
Bill for new transit authority in Charlotte - Charlotte Observer
Council member to FTA - WFAE Charlotte
Rivian Spinoff - Heatmap
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Links in the notes 20
- https://support.patreon.com/hc/en-us/articles/360041347732-How-to-use-your-audio-RSS
- https://apnews.com/article/green-transportation-climate-transit-bikes-trump-buses-a3915d4859e9fd44bb7e81d993fb549f
- https://www.fastcompany.com/91299658/this-brooklyn-apartment-complex-was-built-like-a-lego-set
- https://www.niskanencenter.org/the-state-capacity-crisis/
- https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/paris-residents-vote-favour-making-500-more-streets-pedestrian-2025-03-23/
- https://heatmap.news/plus/the-fight/spotlight/halstead-kansas-battery-concurrent-llc
- https://www.theatlantic.com/family/archive/2025/03/e-bike-family-parenthood/682052/?gift=1aj1DbKqq8ihPoCV99tjJYa1jBWjCexk1I-hWxHPpE8&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share
- https://blog.ucs.org/dave-cooke/the-user-pay-myth-we-all-pay-for-our-roads-not-just-drivers/
- https://taxpolicycenter.org/taxvox/if-congress-makes-muni-bonds-taxable-what-could-happen-states-and-cities
- https://susanpcrawford.substack.com/p/what-happens-if-climate-adaptation
- https://www.nssmag.com/en/lifestyle/40378/is-minimalism-suffocating-architecture
- https://landezine.com/clearing-the-woods-dan-handel-on-forest-metaphors/
- https://urbanmilwaukee.com/2025/03/16/transportation-could-milwaukee-create-a-regional-transit-authority/
- https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2025/mar/19/its-beautiful-dont-you-think-the-urban-miners-unearthing-treasure-in-belgiums-homes-and-garages
- https://apnews.com/article/amtrak-gardner-ceo-resigns-musk-a57e28dfe402dabe3fad68294c1e6818
- https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/23/us/altadena-tiles-eaton-fire-la-history.html
- https://www.sacbee.com/news/local/article302693769.html
- https://www.theurbanist.org/2025/03/24/sound-transit-picks-dow-constantine-as-ceo/
- https://www.charlotteobserver.com/news/politics-government/article302783834.html
- https://www.wfae.org/politics/2025-03-25/charlotte-city-council-member-bokhari-resigning-to-take-key-trump-administration-transit-job
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