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Episode 190: Mondays at The Overhead Wire – Aging Out of the Car
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- Apr 28, 2026
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Summary
This week we're Han Solo, but have a lot of great news items to share including SRO legislation, Japan's rail expertise, the idea of onboarding residents to a city, and the quiet that came from the solar eclipse. Below are the show notes including links to the articles that we discussed. MAIN ITEMS SRO legislation - Niskanen Center Older drivers - Carbon Upfront! Japan's railways - Works in Progress The warehouse in plain sight - Places Journal Onboarding residents - National League of Cities Free range parenting - The Dispatch Total eclipse silence - ScienceDaily Sacramento parking legend - Sacramento Bee Way-mo cars on the road - Streetsblog NYC BONUS ITEMS Boom and bust built into the system - Kings College Mamdani curb management - Streetsblog NYC Credit card charges going up for Clipper - SFGate Federal home loan bank system reform - New York Times Local government staffing shortages - Smart Cities Dive City owned grocery - 6sqft Automated speed enforcement - Global News Robotaxi polls - The Verge Water conservation overshadowed by drought - The Conversation Finland opens longest active transportation bridge - New Atlas Gas prices and housing supply - Newsweek Amazon's algorithm makes prices go up - Washington Monthly Wildlife connections through land use - bioGraphic Asphalt's health impacts - Arizona State University +++ Many thanks to Bob Nanna for our intro/outro music. Get the show ad free on Patreon ! Find out about our newsletter and archive on YouTube ! Follow us on Bluesky, Threads, Instagram, YouTube, Flickr, Substack ... @theoverheadwire Follow us on Mastadon [email protected] Support the show on Patreon http://patreon.com/theoverheadwire Buy books on our Bookshop.org Affiliate site! And get our Cars are Cholesterol shirt at Tee-Public ! And e…