Author: Jeff Wood

Jeff Wood

Jeff Wood

Jeff Wood is an urban planner focused on transportation and land use issues living and working in the San Francisco Bay Area. Jeff's news archives can be found at The Overhead Wire and he tweets @theoverheadwire. You can also listen to his Talking Headways podcast episodes at Streetsblog USA

Time-lapse photo of a Houston freeway at night shot through a chain-link fence.

National Links: No Narrowing Lanes

Changing USDOT policy, the pitfalls of car-centric city life, data-driven housing initiative and the effects of coal-burning pollution.

Looking skyward at palm trees, framing an A-frame building

National Links: A Billionaire Urbanist?

A neighborhood in Lansdowne, Pennsylvania, modifies its pandemic-era tradition of socially distanced block parties. Plus, pedestrian-only streets in Paris.

An urban tree and lawnscape.

National Links: E-Bike Bliss

This week: Stories about the transformative power of e-bikes, a persistent myth about transportation funding, designed forests, urban beauty and more.