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A 'Year of Decision' For Chicago's El System
<p>For Chicago's El, big decisions must be made to modernize the nations' second largest transit system and alleviate it routine budget shortfalls.</p>
Parking Deck Scars Downtown Atlanta Block
<p>Despite being sued over its construction, a developer built a parking deck against code and severely limited the potential of the remaining downtown block it sits on.</p>
A Sun Roof Over Their Heads
<p>The sub-prime meltdown has some Los Angelenos sleeping (illegally) in their cars, and advocates for the homeless are divided about what to do about it.</p>
A Subway Car For The Future That Never Came
<p>Although New York City's Second Avenue Subway may finally come to fruition, it is unlikely that the once futuristic Car 8013 of the R11 model will ever run on its tracks.</p>
Bush Administration Puts Money Behind Implementing Congestion Pricing
<p>In one of the clearest directives to states yet, an FHWA official stated publicly that they want to award money to highway departments to actually implement -- not simply study -- congestion pricing.</p>
Inside Southern Californian Slums
<p>Near the California desert resorts in and around Palm Springs, huge slums have built up in trailer parks, occupied by migrant farm workers. These areas are overcrowded with thousands of people, many of whom have no access to clean water or plumbing.</p>
The Cul-de-sac Conundrum
<p>If most planners do not like cul-de-sacs why are so many being built in Southern California?</p>
City Of Lights To Become City Of Bikes
<p>This summer more than 20,500 rental bikes will be available to Parisians at 1,450 bike stations for a faster, cheaper travel alternative.</p>
Adapting Habitat For Humanity To The Urban Environment
<p>Habitat for Humanity takes its expertise in creating builder-owners in suburban settings to Los Angeles, which desperately needs affordable housing. <em>The Planning Report</em> interviews CEO Erin Rank.</p>
Creating Stronger Borders -- In Wisconsin
<p>Legislation up for consideration in Wisconsin looks to make it easier for towns in the state to legally change their municipal status to avoid being annexed. The bill hopes to reduce the amount of cross-town border disputes incited by annexations.</p>
Light Rail Takes Bus Funding
<p>Plans for a light rail system in Kansas City may move forward only by sacrificing the city's bus system. Federal funding currently supporting the buses would have to be diverted to the proposed light rail system, adversely affecting bus service.</p>
Majority In Ohio Want Eminent Domain Law Struck
<p>A recent survey reveals that more than two-thirds of Ohio residents are opposed to the state's eminent domain law, and would be in favor of throwing it out.</p>
Architecture: Modernism Gets Old
<p>Americans prefer traditional architecture. Is Modernism dead?</p>
Mass Public Library Closures Hit Oregon
<p>Medford Oregon's newly opened public library is about to close its doors -- but it is just one of 15 across the region suffering from a loss of federal subsidies.</p>
Oregon's Transportation Problems Are Going To Cost Businesses
<p>Transportation problems and needed improvements are expected to cost the state of Oregon billions in the next 20 years. A new report is also estimating costs of nearly $2 billion a year in lost productivity due to the transportation problems.</p>
BLOG POST
Where Do I Live and Where Do I Park?
<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">As one of my favorite colleagues says, all anyone ever cares about at any public meeting is “where do I live and where do I park?” Public process, in short, asks people to accept changes to their homes and lives. And people generally do not like change. </font></p>
What Would You Do With $100 Billion To Improve Transit?
<p>As part of a series of opinions about traffic and transit, The Los Angeles Times gives one transit advocate the fantasy situation of having $100 billion to spend on rail, buses, and a host of other transportation improvements.</p>
Is London's Congestion Charge Bad Policy?
<p>Mayor Livingstone's sledgehammer approach to congestion management lacks imagination, and travel in the UK capital isn't that much better, according to a recent commentary.</p>
FEATURE
Barriers To Planning: Lessons From Katrina
Evacuating people after Hurricane Katrina revealed chronic shortcomings of local and regional evacuation planning. The barriers that hindered efforts in New Orleans apply not only to evacuation planning, but to planning in general.
First 'Eco-Friendly' Mall Opens In Chicago
<p>The first of its kind development is hoping to transform the booming interest in all things green into, well, green.</p>
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