National Links: ‘We Buy Houses’ Fails Everyone
This week: billboard bans in France, Chicago’s bus battery troubleshooting and how an Arizona town wound up waterless.
Author: Jeff Wood
National Links: Flood Zones and Texas-Sized Regulation
The Overhead Wire’s weekly news compilation explores why American railroads oppose electrification and how two Belgian cities sought to reduce car use downtown.
National Links: Induced Demand Justifies Freeways
Induced demand denial, local solutions for affordable housing, “Livable Streets 2.0” and more in this week’s National Links.
National Links: Going Car-Free in Middle America
Car-free living in the heartland, junk traffic science, 15-minute-city conspiracies and more in this week’s National Links.
National Links: Biodiverse Cities and Transit Construction Costs
How can cities be generators, not destroyers, of biodiversity? This and much more answered in this week’s National Links.
National Links: Best New Bike Lanes in the Country
Top bike projects of 2022, rent control in Boston, aligning climate priorities with city budgets and more national links for the week of February 5, 2023.
National Links: Reducing Lithium Mining and Low Traffic Neighborhoods
A comprehensive study on the effectiveness of low-traffic neighborhoods in London and how reducing and reusing lithium can curb climate change – these topics and more on this week’s compilation of National Links.
National Links: Should Cities Use Cool Pavements?
Doubts are raised about cool pavements, engineers need more transportation education and other great reads await in this week’s National Links.
National Links: Sprawl vs Density in Colorado
This week’s compilation of “National Links”: the financial impact of cars, why widening highways doesn’t work and a controversial climate project in Copenhagen.
National Links: Yes, Your Neighbor’s Noises Annoy You
Why noisy neighbors bother us, where cities will be building next, Los Angeles’ warmer future and other (inter)national links for January 9th, 2023.