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Every day at The Overhead Wire we sort through over 1,500 news items about cities and share the best ones with our email list. At the end of the week, we take some of the most popular stories and share them with Urban Milwaukee readers. They are national (or international) links, sometimes entertaining and sometimes absurd, but hopefully useful.
Buttigieg’s ‘fix it first’ infrastructure approach: Newly minted Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg’s infrastructure policy approach will be ‘fix it first’. He emphasized addressing the existing infrastructure backlog as well as a slower approach to local planning in an interview at CityLab 2021. He stated that he wants to focus on maintenance while adding resources ‘where there is a need” but there might also be places where the total amount of pavement is re
One German city is working to make its streets less welcoming to drivers even those with electric vehicles. Buttigieg’s top priority at the Department of Transportation is addressing a maintenance backlog. The role dollar stores are playing in rural retail.
Heidelberg’s move toward a car-less city: The German city of Heidelberg is going beyond the current mantra of electric cars for climate goals and focusing on creating an environment conducive to active transport. The mayor, Eckart Wuerzner, says he’d like Heidelberg to be completely car free, and aims to do that in part with an emphasis on car sharing, added cycling infrastructure, and making it difficult for cars to navigate neighborhoods through street design. (Jack Ewing | New York Times)
This week, we’re joined by UC Berkeley PhD candidate Matthew Tarduno, who talks to us about his paper comparing congestion and economic impacts of ride hailing companies Uber and Lyft before and after the cessation of service in Austin, Texas. We talk about potentially beneficial congestion policies and how the paper might apply to some cities and not others.
For those of you who prefer to use your eyes rather than your ears, there’s a partial transcript below the audio player (a full transcript is here):
Here’s the partial transcript:
Jeff Wood: So you wrote a paper entitled “The Congestion Costs of Lyft and Uber” in the Journal of Urban Economics. I’m curious what the impetus was. I mean, you kind of explained a little bit, but what the impetus was for thinking specifically as it pertains to ride hailing.
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