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Episode 180: Mondays at The Overhead Wire - Signal Timing
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Episode Episode 180: Mondays at The Overhead Wire - Signal Timing
This week on Mondays at The Overhead Wire we chat about signal timing tinkering in Houston, the impact of commute times on sleep disorders, Phoenix's lack of water for sprawl, and how many times Raleigh had to bid for contractors to build bus rapid transit.
Below are the show notes:
Houston signal timing off - Rice Thresher
Whitmire thinks he knows - New York Times
Sleep impacted by commutes - SciTechDaily
Lifting the smog in Santiago - Guardian
Raleigh BRT contracting - News and Observer
Phoenix has no water for sprawl - High Country News
Crypto noise - The Texas Tribune
Caltrain puts energy in the grid - Metro Magazine
China's lower tier cities and retail - Campaign
The retail hits different - The Overhead Wire
Everything SB79 - Arbitrary Lines
Urban hoofprints - University of Michigan
Highway repair better than expansion - SSTI
US dangerous car standards - Transport and Environment
Land trust affortability - Realtor.com
Waymo and accepting death - Futurism
New census data - Niskanen Center
Secret to Norway's EV success - Energy.digital
China EVs off five year plan - Reuters
Bonus Items
New vehicles top $50K - CNBC
How Vancouver's Translink escaped death spiral - Bloomberg CityLab
Bike sharing boon - Cities Today
Smart phone data and trips - TechExplore
Milwaukee tows reckless drivers - Urban Milwaukee
St. Louis green infrastructure - Reasons to be Cheerful
Stone buildings reduce emissions - BBC
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Links in the notes 20
- https://www.ricethresher.org/article/an-urbanists-guide-to-houston-removing-signal-priority-from-the-red-line-is-a-mistake-20251008
- https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/19/us/politics/houston-mayor.html
- https://scitechdaily.com/scientists-expose-how-housing-and-commutes-steal-sleep/
- https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/oct/02/lifting-black-cloud-smog-bound-city-cut-dangerous-levels-air-pollution
- https://www.newsobserver.com/news/business/article312404797.html
- https://www.hcn.org/issues/57-10/the-dried-out-subdivisions-of-phoenix/
- https://www.texastribune.org/2025/10/09/texas-hood-county-crypto-noise-incorporate-city/
- https://www.metro-magazine.com/10248674/caltrains-electric-trains-now-earn-money-while-powering-the-grid
- https://www.campaignasia.com/article/what-60-days-in-chinas-lower-tier-cities-revealed-to-me-about-retail/505225
- https://theoverheadwire.com/2025/10/the-retail-hits-different/
- https://mnolangray.substack.com/p/everything-you-need-to-know-about
- https://news.umich.edu/revealing-the-carbon-hoofprint-of-meat-consumption-for-american-cities/
- https://ssti.us/2025/10/21/repairing-highways-is-better-for-the-economy-than-expanding-them/
- https://www.transportenvironment.org/articles/accepting-us-car-standards-would-risk-european-lives-warn-cities-and-civil-society
- https://www.realtor.com/advice/sell/dc-homeowners-pay-it-forward-affordable-housing/
- https://futurism.com/advanced-transport/waymo-ceo-car-death
- https://www.niskanencenter.org/new-census-data-a-true-picture-of-americas-housing-stock/
- https://energydigital.com/news/how-is-norway-leading-in-the-electric-vehicle-transition
- https://www.reuters.com/business/autos-transportation/china-excludes-evs-latest-five-year-plan-industry-grapples-with-oversupply-2025-10-28/
- https://www.cnbc.com/2025/10/13/new-car-prices-auto-loan-delinquencies.html
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