Author: 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

National Links: Reform is Hard in Auto Oriented Cities

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Jeff Wood • September 16, 2026

Charlotte’s light rail systems, dead malls, and municipal wealth funds

Photo by H. Jiahong Pan for the Minnesota Reformer

National Links: Revealing the Urban Streets

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Jeff Wood • September 9, 2026

Urban waterways, e-bike subsidies, and systemic change waves

Inside of Watt Cycleworks, an e-bike shop located in southeast Minneapolis. Photo: Sarah Friedman.

National Links: An Emerging West African Megaregion

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Jeff Wood • August 19, 2026

Overperforming downtowns, e-bikes, a $2B people mover at LAX, and urbanism polling well

The two massive parking lots between University Avenue and the Midway Target. Source: Cole Hanson

National Links: Solving the Problems of Parking Lots

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Jeff Wood • August 4, 2026

Parking lots, Bay Area transit, wildfire smoke, and more.

National Links: Long Term Choices

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Jeff Wood • July 1, 2026

Walkable neighborhoods, car ownership, and street safety

National Links: Bricks for Cooling

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Jeff Wood • June 18, 2026

Bus shelters, transit oriented development, and urban development without subsidies

An Amtrak train winds its way through the forests of Vermont on the Ethan Allen Express. The northern terminus is Vermont's small capital, Burlington, serviced with one round trip daily. Credit: Ludus56 on Wikimedia Commons.

National Links: A Different Way to Think About Access

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Jeff Wood • May 28, 2026

Scissor stairs, electrotech, people- based maps, and fixing roads.

Presenting Talking Headways: Week Without Driving

Anna Zivarts, Jeff Wood and Ian R Buck • May 15, 2026

In this episode from the Talking Headways Podcast, Anna Zivarts leads a roundtable about the Week Without Driving event.

Woodley Street - rural section heading west

National Links: Different Economic Development Thinking

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Jeff Wood • May 6, 2026

VMT mitigation, inflation worse than reported, weekend transit, and more

I-94 today at Prior Avenue in St. Paul. A Waymo semi-autonomous vehicle is shown. These will respond to similar incentives as human-driven vehicles in the future.

National Links: A Parking Enforcement Legend

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Jeff Wood • April 29, 2026

Waymo, a parking enforcement legend, and city vibrations