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

Per one of our links this week, fear of apartments may be restricting the housing supply. Another link proposes that we instead fear apartments without windows. Photo by Isaac Quesada on Unsplash.

National Links: Who Can Afford to Drive?

• March 24, 2023

This week: walking is good for kids’ brains, apartment-phobia and its discontents, and what to say to people who think windows should come at a premium.

Some bus services let people request to get on and off in between distant stops. But riders, and even drivers, aren't always aware of these policies. Photo by Marius Matuschzik on Unsplash.

National Links: ‘We Buy Houses’ Fails Everyone

• March 17, 2023

This week: billboard bans in France, Chicago’s bus battery troubleshooting and how an Arizona town wound up waterless.

According to an article in Nature Climate Change, homes in U.S. flood zones may be overvalued by hundreds of billions of dollars. Photo by Don Becker of the U.S. Geological Survey, used under a Creative Commons license.

National Links: Flood Zones and Texas-Sized Regulation

• March 10, 2023

The Overhead Wire’s weekly news compilation explores why American railroads oppose electrification and how two Belgian cities sought to reduce car use downtown.