Mondays at The Overhead Wire – No BRT for Christmas, Only Ham

Chrissy Mancini Nichols joins the show again and we have a blast talking about all kinds of urban topics. We discuss the rise of electro-states, a new way to measure accessibility from Wendy Zhao, short versus long term thinking on BRT alignments, and thoughts on how we should fund transportation considering our new world of deliveries and electric vehicles. Lots of great stuff, listen in here. Discussion Items Dawn of the Electric World Order - Phenomenal World A new way of measuring accessibility - USC Price Colfax: to center run or side run BRT - Westword | Denverite Funding transportation - will we miss the gas tax? KQED | Governing Bonus Items Hormuz Jeff - Saturday Night Live Women Changing Cities - Talking Headways +++ 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 theoverheadwire@sfba.social 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 everything else at http://theoverheadwire.com

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