National Links: Sitting on the Porch
The Overhead Wire’s weekly compilation of national and global news: transportation and medicine, the power of porches and a drop in interactions within cities.
Tag Archives: covid-19
Commuting to Downtown Minneapolis Is Both Easier and More Complex Since COVID
How have commuting patterns and multimodal transportation habits changed in downtown Minneapolis since COVID?
Charts of the Day: Impacts of Land Use on Pandemic-Era Light Rail Station Ridership
Contributor Eoin Roux analyzes light rail station ridership within the context of the previous two years of the pandemic.
National Links: Designing Pedestrian Dignity
Why green space doesn’t make suburbs more environmentally friendly than cities, how Japanese toddlers are more helpful to their parents and more on global urban trends.
National Links: Pixar’s Subversive Urbanism
Every day at The Overhead Wire, we collect news about cities and send the links to our email list. At the end of the week we take some of the most popular stories and post them to Greater Greater Washington, a group blog similar to streets.mn that focuses on urban issues in the D.C. region. […]
National Links: Will Remote Work Mean More Driving?
Remote telework could mean more driving to meetings, plus righting the racial wrongs of transportation policy.
National Links: Is Remote Work Sustainable?
Every day at The Overhead Wire we collect news about cities and send the links to our email list. At the end of the week we take some of the most popular stories and post them to Greater Greater Washington, a group blog similar to streets.mn that focuses on urban issues in the D.C. region. […]
A Poem for August 27th, 2020
Weep and know Death, Land of Sky Blue Waters. There will be no butter blocks carved of your daughters. Eighteen hundred siblings are already dead. All else holds its breath so The Thing won’t spread. The places you ate, the places you drank, The places you danced and flirted, The places you studied, and the […]
My Front Porch and Why I Love it – Volume 2
I’m “attending” the bi-annual Walk Bike Places conference virtually this week. It sucks. We should be in Indianapolis, a town I lived in for a few years in the 1990s. We should be doing walking tours and bike tours and visiting amazing spaces and seeing one another. But, we’re not. I’m sitting at the same […]
Are Downtowns Dead? And What Might that Mean for Our Neighborhoods?
Our current world situation led me to think about the song Downtown’s Dead, by the esteemed urbanist and bro-country performer Sam Hunt. Although I doubt that a global pandemic was on his mind when he penned this tune in 2018, it does raise a question that increasingly is being pondered. Is downtown dead? Most employers […]