Infrastructure

A new guide seeks to answer that question for any street in the world.

November 9, 2017 - Streetsblog USA

Planetizen rounded up all the pertinent results from local and state elections on November 8, 2017. The main theme of the day: voters continue to support local and state sources of infrastructure funding.

November 8, 2017 - Planetizen

An interview with Houston Planning Director Patrick Walsh, conducted after Hurricane Harvey ravaged the city and reduced its planning and infrastructure to a talking point for pundits. It's time to let the locals do the talking.

November 8, 2017 - Josh Stephens

The progressive city hopes to integrate economic, community, and climate resiliency measures in future projects.

November 7, 2017 - The Planning Report

Already a common means of delivering infrastructure in many countries, public-private partnerships are growing in importance in the United States, but how do they compare to other procurement models?

November 7, 2017 - Doggerel

Transportation planners are on to something big and, for the most part, they are keeping it to themselves. The future is a relatively small fleet of shared, electric, self driving vehicles, and it's coming fast. Are we ready?

November 7, 2017 - Dave Biggs

The Gehl Institute, working with several public sector partners, has released an open source "Public Life Data Protocol."

November 7, 2017 - Gehl Institute

The federal government appears to be reneging on yet another promise to Native American tribes.

November 6, 2017 - The Oregonian

Part of wider plans to revitalize Denver's River North neighborhood, a planned pedestrian and bike bridge will call on the services of Bridges to Prosperity. The nonprofit has constructed 270 small bridges across the world.

November 6, 2017 - The Denver Post

Voters around the country will go to the ballot box tomorrow to consider transportation- and infrastructure-related measures.

November 6, 2017 - U.S. News & World Report

It's been a deadly Autumn for bike riders in Houston, and bike advocates are pushing the city to make streets safer for all users.

November 5, 2017 - Houston Chronicle

The company that pays to build and maintain bus shelters in Miami-Dade County isn't happy about plans to bring in another company to build wi-fi kiosks at transit stops.

November 5, 2017 - Miami Herald

Few rail transit systems have faced as many challenges in recent years as the Metrorail system serving the Washington, D.C. Consider this video an appreciation.

November 3, 2017 - Greater Greater Washington

While global cities in other parts of the world are taking steps to ban cars from city centers, Fresno, California has taken the opposite approach. Time will tell if the return of vehicle traffic to Fulton Street project pays dividends.

November 2, 2017 - The Fresno Bee

Interstate 35 through Central Austin would be transformed into a three-level roadway wIth toll lanes in the middle, according to an 8.1 billion vision proposed by TxDOT.

November 2, 2017 - Austin American-Statesman

In a series of articles by Austin-based KXAN-TV, reporters examine the new MoPac Express Lane, now in full operation more than two years behind schedule. Despite significant construction setbacks, the congestion-priced lanes are well-used.

November 1, 2017 - KXAN

Only one coastal city has a sewer system that must handle stormwater as well as wastewater. San Francisco's efforts to adapt its combined sewer-stormwater system has put it on the vanguard of the city's climate adaptation efforts.

October 31, 2017 - San Francisco Chronicle

An explainer post on that much-lamented feature of contemporary communities—the stroad.

October 31, 2017 - Strong Towns

The proposed 10-mile Jefferson Parkway expansion would cross land once home to the Rocky Flats nuclear weapons plant—site of one of the country's largest environmental crimes.

October 31, 2017 - The Denver Post

The 10-Minute Walk to a Park Campaign launched earlier this month.

October 31, 2017 - The Huffington Post