Monday's Most Read # 1 - Triumph of the Spanish City link.theoverheadwire.com/dryk7 Works in Progress Magazine

Monday's Most Read # 2 - We’ll Miss Gas Taxes When They’re Gone link.theoverheadwire.com/he6nx Governing

Monday's Most Read # 3 - ‘Our Roads Are More Than Just Highways’: Democrats Urge U.S. Senate Not to Defund Multimodal Programs link.theoverheadwire.com/pghqf Streetsblog USA

An interesting review of what the California High Speed Rail authority is doing to try and get the line operational - link.theoverheadwire.com/7afqg

The Car Trap and How I Escaped It. featuring @riocobre.bsky.social link.theoverheadwire.com/mjqv6

This is insane. The terms of DOJ's slush fund appear to transfer control of $1.8 billion beyond US government entirely. Unless I'm misreading this, that would circumvent Congress *entirely* and put the money outside of *any* constitutional and/or legal constraints ofany kind. Straight up theft.

Missing housing. Responds to “Middle.” Last seen over 50 years ago in cities everywhere. Help find it. Please contact your elected officials. 555-456-CITY #UrbanTruth #MissingMiddle

Again why are Democrats doing this bill before the midterms? It’s got so much dumb stuff in it like this. @repricklarsen.bsky.social This bill never gets done on time and yet this time they are trying to finish early? For what?

Three goals. Clean sheet. Three points. OUR HOUSE. SF City 3-0 Davis Legacy FINAL

Vibes in San Francisco were so great today 🌁 ❤️ Skipped B2B this year but seemed like all the best costumes migrated over to the @sfcityfc.com game.

1. My e-bike assistance means I'm doing ¾, ½, or ¼ of the exercise, depending on the setting 2. What a pity it'd be if we de-carbonized transportation, made our streets safe, and reclaimed 30% of the total land in our cities for trees, grass, and housing instead of parking and overbuilt-roads 🧵

KAI OPPENHEIM GIVES US THE DREAM START!!!! ⚫🟡 1-0 ⚪⚪ 3'

Yet another "lost cause"... "[Getting rid of fuel efficiency standards] and the general anti-EV stance of the Trump administration and the Republican Congress feel more like lost-cause signaling than sustainable policy, though." link.theoverheadwire.com/he6nx

What a debacle.

NATIONAL LINKS: Washington State is the first in the nation to pass statewide scissor stair reform. States are prioritizing highway expansion over maintenance. An argument for prioritizing time-based accessibility in urban planning.

We're here in Barstow with a big coalition of environmental justice advocates, labor, and residents from the ports to Barstow calling on Barstow to electrify the BIG! Learn more about the project here: calelectricrail.org/the-b-i-g-is...

This was my 1st coverage of 2026 after my shoulder replacement in January. It was fun to shoot video & ride (carefully). But I almost cried a few times when I realized how the tone among advocates has changed. I'm almost 60 and never thought this day would come. NYC Is gonna be great for my kid.

It turns out that fining people for speeding makes them less likely to speed.

HELL YEAH. I WIN. I HAVE OUTLIVED THE KARS 4 KIDS SONG

Very exciting transit expansion coming over the next few days to Montréal: the REM automated metro's Anse-à-l’Orme Branch. Extension will add 4 stations & 14 km to the city's west. REM already carries 75,000 daily riders, about the same as Atlanta's MARTA (Montréal's metro carries ~1 million/day).

This is a form of psychosis. These people will burn the world if they have their way.

Check out my chat with Jeff over at @theoverheadwire.com @usa.streetsblog.org!

I didn’t include it in this story, but Trevon Hayes’ death is not only the 20th traffic fatality I’ve counted this year; it’s also the 85th traffic death I’ve counted since 2024. 85 preventable deaths in a “Vision Zero” city. It’s an unacceptable status quo. www.sacbee.com/news/local/t...

Talking Headways Podcast: Sidewalk Nation usa.streetsblog.org/2026/05/14/t... via @usa.streetsblog.org, @theoverheadwire.com, and @michaelcpollack.bsky.social

Doctors call for more standard safety reporting from autonomous vehicle companies - opmed.doximity.com/articles/an-... "Almost everyone who signs this letter has held a steering wheel. Most have held bodies destroyed by cars."

New #TalkingHeadways! Law Professor Michael Pollack on who manages, owns and feels ownership of sidewalks — "America's most overlooked resource." link.theoverheadwire.com/jk79c @usa.streetsblog.org

LOST: Missing Middle Housing. Please help. Last seen 50+ years ago in cities everywhere. Please contact your elected officials to help find this housing. 555-456-CITY #UrbanTruth #MissingMiddle

This could be 6 cars instead.

Super interesting piece in @planetizen.bsky.social about building development over rail maintenance yards in China. Especially wild pictures link.theoverheadwire.com/67dtu Cangqian Depot Deck, completed in 2021.

Highlighting super-interesting academic research and trying to make it understandable and useful for a wider audience — without sacrificing nuance and integrity! — is just about my favorite thing I do on my channel

Imagine if we had rural and natural trails like this through Minnesota, or through all of the US! Beautiful!

Single payer healthcare makes sense because the risk of getting hurt or sick is random; so price discrimination is unfair to unlucky people. Pricing risk to homes, OTOH, is good and useful. If you choose to buy a house in a flood plain or fire risk zone, you *should* pay higher insurance premiums!

Susan Handy says many wise things in this piece. A related issue I'll raise is we manage what we measure, so if we want to do things differently, we need to measure different things. Traffic speeds are easy to measure, which is one reason we focus there. Measuring better transport options is harder.

Between Minneapolis and Rochester on some October day.

Zhou observed that most measures of regional accessibility are built on unrealistic assumptions about business hours, transit operating hours, and personal working hours. She developed an alternative measure that combined smartphone GPS records with operating hours info. 1/2

Hours after I held a press conference exposing Mayor Bass’s secret deal to allow rental homes to be turned into vacation rentals, filings were published showing that Airbnb is spending big on a PAC to get her reelected.  This is what pay-to-play politics looks like. 🧵⬇️

Feeling overwhelmed with all of this. LISTEN. Another Louisiana resident (Marshawn is the only name we have) testifies against the state’s racial gerrymander, speaking truth to power up and down the hearing room and predicts how this story will end. Speak your truth, fight and believe.

Cool to see 19 new wind turbines generate as much electricity as 400 (!) old turbines in CA's Altamont Pass. The U.S. could more than double its onshore wind capacity with no new land via repowering, per a Stanford study: www.quittingcarbonmedia.com/a-repowered-... via @justingerdes.bsky.social

Wednesday's Most Read # 1 - Price Ph.D. student develops new way to measure urban accessibility link.theoverheadwire.com/hycef @uscprice.bsky.social @geoffboeing.com

Wednesday's Most Read # 1 - Price Ph.D. student develops new way to measure urban accessibility link.theoverheadwire.com/hycef @uscprice.bsky.social @geoffboeing.com

Tuesday's Most Read # 2 - The Unhappy Hosts of the World Cup link.theoverheadwire.com/j3pyd @theatlantic.com @henrygrabar.bsky.social

Wednesday's Most Read # 3 - Sherrill Announces NJ TRANSIT Rapid Action Plan link.theoverheadwire.com/7v6m4 NJ Business Magazine

F This. What a waste of money. Just build more walkable cities and stop making everyone drive everywhere.

Electrifying the ports to Barstow would not only reduce pollution, it would help transit. The Metrolink 91/Perris Valley & IE-OC Line and future CA High-Speed Rail share tracks with BNSF, and could be electrified with BNSF's consent, as they already have given for LA-Fullerton.

Watching a series of former Confederate states rush to eliminate any vestige of black representation in the House pretty much answers the question whether the Voting Rights Act was still necessary.

#WALeg legalized scissor stairs this year! The efficient design conserves square footage and helps buildings fit onto smaller lots. @markusja.bsky.social www.sightline.org/2026/05/13/w...

Really good piece. I’ve wanted to do an episode on the conservative case for better urbanism for a while but it’s basically impossible to find a conservative who doesn’t hold odious views about some other issue - and I wouldn’t want to platform such folks. Read Matthew’s take instead.

When Disney promised to convert Autopia to electric vehicles, it wasn't just an act of corporate goodwill. Turns out California had issued an air quality "notice of violation" concerning modified engines. I've got exclusive details: www.climatecoloredgoggles.com/p/disneyland...

I’m sorry, but no. I’m not affiliated with the campaign so I can be honest: I am sick of treating voters like recalcitrant children. Nithya is polling at 20%. Rae is polling at 4%. Voting for Rae is just helping Spencer Pratt. If you can’t see that then you need to grow up and get real.