Episode 166: Mondays at The Overhead Wire - More Trains, Less Kings

This week on Mondays at The Overhead Wire we're Han Solo!  But don't worry, we cover a lot of ground including congestion pricing's sparing match with a wannabe King, Canada's high speed rail plans, microplastics, and a big bike experiment in Denver. For more links to items discussed on the show, see below: USDOT wants end to congestion pricing - Streetsblog NYC Seattle social housing gets yes vote - Cascade PBS Canada plans HSR - CBC News Woodlands eco-burb - Planetizen Denver bike experiment - Denverite Microplastics - Washington Post Vehicle plastics found in Alps - Guardian 100 fewer killed with 20mph speed limits - BBC Right on red danger for peds - Smart Cities Dive Capital Gains slowing housing? - Fortune Miami's trash nightmare - Washington Post   BONUS ITEMS Caltrain More Efficient - Metro Magazine Black residents pay price for climate change - Time Magazine Languages lost to climate change - NOEMA Brake dust more harmful  now - Yale e360 EVs generally produce less non-exhaust emissions - Virginia Tech (Thanks Nick for that one!) Autonomous cars don't understand blind - University of Maryland Safe planning for women - NZZ Better barriers needed - Traffic Technology International Atlanta's housing plans - Guardian Rail accuses trucking of road subsidies - Roll Call Cambridge ends single family zoning - Harvard Crimson Senators wants $1K EV tax - Reuters Cairo's garbage city the envy of world - African Arguments +++ Follow us on Bluesky, Threads, Instagram, YouTube, Flickr, Substack ... @theoverheadwire Follow us on Mastadon [email protected] Support the show on Patreon http://patreon.com/theoverheadwire Buy books on our Bookshop.org Affiliate site!  And get our Cars are Cholesterol shirt at Tee-Public! And everything else at http://theoverheadwire.com