Infrastructure

Transit Village Plans Popping Up All Over San Jose

A long-awaited BART extension into San Jose, California is also bringing major development interest of the transit-oriented variety.

July 19, 2017 - The Mercury News

Reflection Canyon, Glen Canyon National Recreation Area

Desert 5, Humans 0

Look no further than the American Southwest for signs that human ingenuity is no match for the ability of the planet to reassert its power.

July 19, 2017 - Pacific Standard

Pittsburgh Bikeshare Trips Decline, While Users Mostly Coast Downhill

"Healthy Ride," the bikeshare system launched in Pittsburgh in 2015, is looking to improve on sagging performance.

July 19, 2017 - Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

Cleveland, Ohio

Cleveland Clinic Lacks a Prescription for its Community

According to an article by Dan Diamond, the Cleveland Clinic is a worldwide success story, but the community surround the hospital "remains mired in poverty."

July 18, 2017 - Politico

Marine Drive

The Remaining Gap Between 'Smart Cities' Ambition and Reality

A critique of a proposed "smart cities" development in Mumbai reveals how much work remains in providing the resources and maintaining the rigor to built sustainable, resilient, liveable cities.

July 18, 2017 - The Conversation

Gas Pump

The Vital Role of Gas Tax Indexing

Without an automatic adjustment for gas taxes, revenue from the tax declines due to increasing fuel efficiency standards while road maintenance and construction costs increase due to inflation. Witness Wisconsin's woes.

July 18, 2017 - WUWM (Milwaukee Public Radio)

Governor Larry Hogan

U.S. DOT Won't Investigate Potential Civil Rights Violation on Baltimore Red Line Cancellation

In the waning days of the Obama Administration, the U.S. Department of Transportation saw reason to investigate the civil rights implications of a decision to cancel funding for the Baltimore Red Line light rail project.

July 18, 2017 - Streetsblog USA

Atlanta BeltLine

An Investigation of Affordable Housing Failure on the Atlanta Beltline

An investigative collaboration between the Georgia News Lab and The Atlanta Journal-Constitution has produced a scathing critique of Atlanta Beltline Inc., the organization shepherding one of the nation's most ambitious public works projects.

July 18, 2017 - The Atlanta Journal-Constitution

Urban Forests

Comparing the World's Urban Tree Canopies

Seattle provides plenty of shade for residents to enjoy in the summer months.

July 17, 2017 - The Stranger

Court Ruling Sides With Regional Officials Over Statewide Climate Goals

The California Supreme Court sided with the San Diego Association of Governments on July 13 in the first court case to decide how regional planning agencies must meet state-required reductions in greenhouse gas emissions from transportation.

July 17, 2017 - The San Diego Union-Tribune

Los Angeles

A City With Room for Everyone

A vision set forth for Los Angeles in 1970 still has powerful relevance in 2017.

July 17, 2017 - Gerhard Mayer

BART Station

Why was BART's Ridership Forecast for Millbrae Station So Wildly Off-Base?

In 1995, planners forecasted that the Millbrae BART Station in San Mateo County, where riders can transfer to/from Caltrain, would attract 16,500 weekday riders. Fourteen years after it opened, ridership is 7,000. Planners were off by 58 percent.

July 16, 2017 - San Francisco Chronicle

Sierra Nevada

Owens Valley Calls on Eminent Domain to Buy its Water Back from Los Angeles

Call it a reverse Chinatown.

July 16, 2017 - Los Angeles Times

Bay Bridge Toll

Road Funding By Taxes, Tolls, and Fees, Broken Down by State

The Tax Foundation endeavors to provide a simple explanation of road funding.

July 16, 2017 - Tax Foundation

Decision Time for Bus Rapid Transit on I-35 in Austin

The rubber meets the road, or not.

July 15, 2017 - Austin Monitor

Sea Level

Sea Level Rise Will Displace Communities in Every Corner of the Bay Area

Sea level rise is already flooding communities with such regularity that many residents are deciding to leave. The sea level rise tipping point will expand its reach as the climate changes.

July 15, 2017 - San Francisco Chronicle

Study: Bike Lanes Raise Property Values in Brooklyn

New bike lanes in the Brooklyn neighborhood of Bushwick started raising property values within a year.

July 15, 2017 - DNA Info

Report Predicts the End of Individual Car Ownership

The first report from independent think tank RethinkXL predicts that by 2031, 95 percent of U.S. passenger miles traveled will be served by on-demand, autonomous electric vehicles owned by companies providing transport as a service.

July 14, 2017 - San Francisco Chronicle

Dearborn Street Bike Lane

Bike Friendliness Ends at the City Border

A new report details the work Chicago's suburbs will have to do to live up to the bike-friendly example of its urban core.

July 14, 2017 - Chicago Tribune

California North Coast

Trump Budget Would Nix Tsunami Warning System

The difference in lives saved between tsunamis that hit Crescent City, California in 1964 and 2011 was an early detection and warning system. Now it's up to Congress to save the $12 million system from the proposed cuts in Trump's budget.

July 14, 2017 - Los Angeles Times

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