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Episode 163: Mondays at The Overhead Wire - Welcome to 2025
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Episode Episode 163: Mondays at The Overhead Wire - Welcome to 2025
We're Han Solo this week but have a lot to share from the end of December and the start of 2025. As we get back into the new year we cover new ways to think about housing construction, transit expansion from Yonah Freemark, and worries about the brightness of headlights.
Check out the show notes below.
Transit Openings 2025 - Transport Politic
Radical construction rethink - Common Edge
Property tax rethink - Slate
Intergenerational living arrangement - Maclean's Canada
Forever chemicals in drinking water - New York Times
Why it's hard to stop driving - Slate
Headlights getting brighter - The Ringer
The great abandonment - The Guardian
Hidden cause of Food Deserts - The Atlantic
Bonus Items
Virtual power purchase agreements - Smart Cities Dive
Car dependence and life satisfaction - Travel Behavior and Society
Illegal to stop in Philly bike lanes - Philadelphia Inquirer
Location key to walking more - Men's Health
DC tackled a child care crunch - NPR
Universal Pre-K - New York Magazine
Miami condos sinking - Miami Herald
AT&T to end landline service - Urban Milwaukee
MNDOT won't remove I-94 - Minneapolis Star Tribune
Corn isn't a good solar panel - Need to Know
NACTO Launches urban bikeway guide - NACTO
Raleigh can't find BRT contractor - News and Observer
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Links in the notes 20
- https://www.thetransportpolitic.com/2025/01/06/transit-expansion-in-the-united-states-a-2024-roundup-and-a-look-ahead-to-2025/
- https://commonedge.org/a-radical-and-totally-practical-rethinking-of-u-s-housing-construction/
- https://slate.com/business/2025/01/property-tax-reform-homeowners-revolt-local-government-budget-resource-inequality.html
- https://macleans.ca/society/why-i-joined-an-intergenerational-housing-experiment/
- https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/06/climate/forever-chemicals-pfas-sewage-drinking-water.html
- https://slate.com/technology/2024/12/car-commute-public-transit-behavioral-science.html
- https://www.theringer.com/2024/12/03/tech/headlight-brightness-cars-accidents
- https://www.theguardian.com/news/2024/nov/28/great-abandonment-what-happens-natural-world-people-disappear-bulgaria
- https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2024/12/food-deserts-robinson-patman/680765/
- https://www.smartcitiesdive.com/news/boston-area-institutions-renewable-energy-virtual-power-purchase-agreement-solar-wind-sustainability/734276/
- https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S2214367X24002175
- https://www.inquirer.com/transportation/bike-lane-stopping-bill-signed-20241204.html
- https://www.menshealth.com/uk/fitness/a63179968/walkable-neighbourhoods/
- https://www.npr.org/2024/12/12/nx-s1-5203084/child-care-pay-equity-tax-dc
- https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/bill-de-blasio-universal-prek-ten-years-later.html
- https://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/environment/climate-change/article296831519.html
- https://urbanmilwaukee.com/2024/12/17/att-will-end-traditional-landline-service-in-wisconsin-by-2030/
- https://www.startribune.com/mndot-scrap-parkway-plan-keep-i-94-between-st-paul-and-minneapolis-as-a-freeway/601197627
- https://leahy.substack.com/p/how-solar-could-free-up-298-million
- https://nacto.org/2025/01/07/nacto-launches-new-urban-bikeway-design-guide/
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