Episode 168: Mondays at The Overhead Wire - Lego Not Legos

This week on Monday's we're Han Solo, but don't let the smuggler fool you, we've got some great loot in the cargo hold.  We chat about states focusing on shifting road funds to active transportation, a Brooklyn apartment building put together like a lego set, and a battery fire used to oppose batteries. Lots of great items this week, below are the show notes!

 

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Show Notes:

States push shift to active modes - Associated Press

Apartment complex built like Lego - Fast Company

State capacity crisis - Niskanen Center

Paris roads car free - Reuters

Battery foes radicalized - Heatmap

E-bike love - The Atlantic

User pay myth - Union of Concerned Scientists

Bonds non taxable - Tax Policy Center

When climate adaptation goes private - Moving Day

Minimalism suffocating architecture - NSS Magazine

Clearing in the Woods - Landzine

Bonus Items

Milwaukee could create transit authority - Urban Milwaukee

Recycling buildings - The Guardian

Amtrak CEO steps down - Associated Press

Saving fireplace tiles - New York Times

Quick build Sacramento - Sacramento Bee

Sound transit picks Dow Constantine - Urbanist

Bill for new transit authority in Charlotte - Charlotte Observer

Council member to FTA - WFAE Charlotte

Rivian Spinoff - Heatmap

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