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Episode 183: Mondays at The Overhead Wire - Changing Social Identities
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Episode Episode 183: Mondays at The Overhead Wire - Changing Social Identities
We're back for a new year of Mondays at The Overhead Wire! This week we're chatting about faster transit, cable cars in the Paris region, congestion pricing and more!
Below you'll find links to the items we discuss during the show...
Closing labor force gap - Los Angeles Times
Congestion pricing air pollution - Phys.org
Congestion pricing benefits - NYT
Leaving DART is hard - D Magazine
Paris cable car - Metro
Speed matters - Italian (urban) letters
Quiet sells - Wall Street Journal
Road salt remains - WHYY
California speeding penalties - Los Angeles Times
Pusing green can backfire - Grist
Misinformation - Volts
Bonus Items
Carmakers and operators liable in China - Cleantechnica
Euro cities clamp down on big cars - AS
Eileen Higgins wins Miami Mayorship - Talking Headways episode
LA Streamlining - Los Angeles Times
Oldes social housing - Deutsche Welle
Dutch answer to water - Inside Climate News
Atlanta's housing progress - Rough Draft Atlanta
Where the prarie remains - Noema
Kotek calls for new transport bill - Bike Portland
Houston residents spend on transport - Houston Public Media
Santa Fe links minimum wage to cost of housing - KRWG
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Links in the notes 20
- https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2025-12-09/skilled-construction-labor-force-gap-housing-affordability-crisis
- https://phys.org/news/2025-12-nyc-congestion-pricing-air-pollution.html
- https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2026/01/05/upshot/congestion-pricing-one-year.html
- https://www.dmagazine.com/frontburner/2025/12/plano-farmers-brand-highland-park-irving-leaving-dart/
- https://metro.co.uk/2025/12/16/europes-longest-urban-cable-car-unveiled-dazzling-capital-city-25527507/
- https://marcochitti.substack.com/p/speed-matters
- https://www.wsj.com/real-estate/home-prices-traffic-noise-b68466d8?st=pB86wS&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
- https://whyy.org/articles/road-salt-remains-waterways-winter-storms/
- https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2025-12-29/new-california-program-could-impose-strict-penalties-on-worst-speeders
- https://grist.org/politics/why-forcing-people-to-go-green-can-backfire/
- https://www.volts.wtf/p/the-cure-for-misinformation-is-not
- https://cleantechnica.com/2025/12/05/chinas-most-updated-autonomous-driving-framework-makes-both-carmakers-operators-owners-included-liable-in-a-crash/
- https://en.as.com/latest_news/the-bigger-the-better-right-some-european-cities-are-clamping-down-on-big-cars-the-larger-it-is-the-more-it-pollutes-f202512-n/
- https://usa.streetsblog.org/2023/03/09/talking-headways-podcast-a-miami-dade-voice-for-bus-rapid-transit
- https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2025-12-09/la-city-council-passes-ordinance-to-streamline-affordable-housing
- https://www.dw.com/en/a-euro-a-year-to-rent-in-germany-fuggerei-makes-it-possible/video-75136343
- https://insideclimatenews.org/news/16122025/new-orleans-architect-finds-dutch-answer-to-living-with-water/
- https://roughdraftatlanta.com/2026/01/02/atlanta-affordable-housing-progress/
- https://www.noemamag.com/where-the-prairie-still-remains/
- https://bikeportland.org/2026/01/07/kotek-calls-for-repeal-of-transportation-bill-in-speech-to-industry-advocates-398849
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