This installment of the Talking Headways podcast comes from this year’s NACTO Designing Cities Conference in Seattle. Moderated by David Br...

Shane Phillips, who writes at the blog Better Institutions , joins the podcast this week to discuss housing issues in Los Angeles (and eve...

Yonah Freemark joined us in January to talk about transit plans for 2016.

Nathan Landau, a transit planner at AC Transit, joined me to talk about his book Car Free Los Angeles and Southern California.  It's a t...

Here are Yesterday's Top Stories from The Direct Transfer Daily   Image via Lyft - "Dallas doesn’t principally have a parkin...

Yesterday's most read article was about a piece of legislation ( bill text ) that would allow 82 foot buses on the Orange Line BRT in L...

This week we're joined by Talking Headways alum Tanya Snyder to discuss a whole bunch of issues including single family zoning in Seattl...

Some notes for the weekend... If road projects like this one had to go through new starts they would never get built. This road like all o...

Hi everyone, Ed here. Mr. Trolleypole has kindly invited me to do some guest posting here at the Overhead Wire, so I'll be writing here ...

It's been a bit rough lately. With the economy in the tank and people not wanting to spend any money, I've had great hope that some...

Every year I feel like I harp on this because I think that outside of these people with fancy gowns, there are a lot of folks including pre...

Long Beach is looking at streetcars ~~~ Quatar has a $22B deal with Deutsche Bahn to build freight, passenger, and Metro rail lines using S...

Every place in the country wants to spend more money on infrastructure but none of them have it. Los Angeles and Denver want to pay for the...

Check out this time lapse transit line video. Atlanta was way ahead ... via @ttpolitic

One of the claims of BRT is that its faster to implement. As we know from work here in the Bay Area and other parts of California is that ...

The more things change, the more they stay the same. Ask Hunter S. Thompson about LA traffic and growth in 1965.

It was nice to see everyone at the NJudah shindig last night. I'm in Sacramento for a family reunion this weekend so posting might be l...

Reader Jon points us to this LA Times article discussing new tollways. They don't mention that those HOV lanes were once dedicated bus...

Los Angeles TOD along the Gold Line at Mission Meridian and Del Mar Stations. It was a pretty hot day and I needed to catch an airplane but...

Located at Hollywood & Highland, how many so called green loving stars took the subway to the Oscars? ZERO!!!! They closed the station...