The Daily Source of Urban Planning News

Before Boston started the Big Dig, there was the Hoosac Tunnel -- maybe the biggest tunnel of all time.

January 6 - The Boston Globe

A survey finds that congestion and housing costs are driving San Francisco region residents mad.

January 6 - The San Francisco Chronicle

The county supervisors vote 3-2 to set aside money for Washington lobbyists to transfer the base to the county.

January 6 - Orange County Register

Governor Jeb Bush's taskforce on growth is drafting new legislation to slow sprawl in the state.

January 6 - The Orlando Sentinel

Transportation advocates and critics debate the benefits and costs of a high-speed rail system in the state.

January 6 - The Miami Herald

Philadelphia to Reading light rail line has many obstacles to overcome.

January 5 - The Philadelphia Inquirer

Land use critic Jill Stewart compares Los Angeles' Playa Vista development to the disasterous Belmont school development site.

January 5 - New Times-LA

There is less oil in the ground each year. But knowledge, and not natural resources, is the critical resource in the new economy.

January 5 - The Atlantic Monthly

King County is experimenting with sustainable agriculture in the midst of sprawl.

January 5 - The Seattle Times

This editorial suggests that land use practices are doomed to failure because they rely on zoning that ignores natural resources.

January 5 - Planetizen

A new federal rule will prevent any major expansion of logging in the national forest system.

January 5 - The Los Angeles Times

Transit planners in Silicon Valley are faced with rapidly rising costs -- and $300 million for a mile of new road is a good deal.

January 5 - San Jose Mercury News

Forty-four highway projects have been delayed as talks among the state and environmental groups break down.

January 5 - The New York Times

With a focus on enhancing a sense of neighborhood and not style, Polyzoides and Moule bring New Urbanism to L.A.

January 4 - The Los Angeles Times

Diverse Californians hold similar views of California's changing social landscape.

January 4 - The San Francisco Chronicle

The FAA is looking at El Toro, the former Marine airfield, in Orange County as a possible new international airport.

January 4 - The Los Angeles Times

An editorial in the Seattle Times argues that Seattle should bite the proverbial bullet and build light rail.

January 4 - The Seattle Times

Springfield, Ill., is the nation's most affordable housing market and San Francisco is the nation's most expensive.

January 4 - National Association of Home Builders

A vigilante anti-urban sprawl group has claimed responsibility for vandalism of three luxury homes on Long Island.

January 4 - The New York Times

Bush's Choices for Energy, Interior Secretaries are condemned by a conservation group as a step backwards.

January 4 - League of Conservation Voters