The Daily Source of Urban Planning News

Toyota is racing to keep up with Google and Uber on driverless car technology.

September 6 - AP via The Australian

24/7 Wall Street created an index to measure the most racially segregated cities in the United States.

September 6 - 24/7 Wall St.

With five days left in the legislative season, Gov. Jerry Brown halved the fuels tax increases proposed in the Democratic bill as a sweetener to tax-averse Republicans, though they haven't show any willingness to date to compromise.

September 5 - San Jose Mercury News

A Brookings Institution reports calls on policy makers to ensure appropriate investments and programs to support workers in the transportation sector.

September 5 - Brookings

The Technology section of the Money website expresses some surprise that the ambitious BlueIndy electric car sharing program is bound for Indy, and not some tech haven like San Francisco, Boston, or Austin.

September 5 - Money

New service connecting Miami and Palm Beach is expected to add 2,000 riders to the Tri-Rail system.

September 5 - Miami Herald

Peter Saunders knows of the Corner Side Yard knows a good thing when he sees it, and that is good thing is the streetcar suburb.

September 5 - The Corner Side Yard

An ambitious project Mayor Annise Parker calls "one of the most exciting things I've had the opportunity to work on as mayor" took a major step forward this week.

September 4 - Houston Chronicle

The Net Zero Water Toolkit helps individuals and organizations make water resource planning decisions based on local conditions rather than targeting historical demand and allowing water quality impacts to flow downstream.

September 4 - Brendle Group

TriMet will get a new addition to its rail system later this month, when it opens the new Orange Line.

September 4 - The Oregonian

For some reason, many drivers think "Share the Road" means bikers should stay out of their way.

September 4 - Streetsblog USA

Chicago gains a new open space today, located on an island on Lake Michigan just across from Soldier Field and Burnham Harbor.

September 4 - Chicago Tribune

A news study, combining satellite imagery and field study, dramatically increases the estimated trees in the world. What has not changed: how quickly humans are killing those trees off.

September 4 - The Washington Post

A study of two cities at opposite ends of the urban spectrum demonstrate how density matters for a number of ecological services.

September 4 - Pacific Standard

No, those will not be the precise words of the forthcoming "Call to Action" by Surgeon General Vice Admiral Vivek H. Murthy, but he will call on cities to "design and build roads and public places to make walking easier, safer, and more pleasant."

September 4 - T4America Blog

The only thing as ubiquitous as love letters are break up letters. Now it's even easier to break up with your city, using real data from the U.S. Census.

September 4 - Tiny Subversions

With a surging homeless population, the city's cluster site program incentivizes slumlords and reduces the supply of affordable housing.

September 4 - The New York Times

FEATURE

"Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing"—as a new rule by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development proposes to do—can vary widely, even in the same city.

September 3 - Kyle Smith and Brendan Saunders

Honolulu's one protected bike lane on King Street, while still a pilot project, has proven so successful that the city plans a major expansion to form a protected bike lane grid that will also tie-in with the new bike share and rail transit.

September 3 - Honolulu Star-Advertiser

A study released by the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety on September 1 showed steep reductions in speeding in Montgomery County, Maryland, where speed cameras has been in effect since 2007, reducing fatalities and severity of injuries.

September 3 - The Detroit News