The Daily Source of Urban Planning News

The Guardian shares news of a new study of a Jakarta lane that could prove that carpool requirements work to reduce driving and congestion.

August 7 - The Guardian

Another unpleasant reminder for the Trump Administration that there are three equal branches of government: A federal appeals court ruled 9-2 that EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt must enforce a rule to reduce methane emissions from oil and gas wells.

August 7 - CNN Politics

Coastal cities are taking a no-tolerance approach to RVs on their streets, even as they otherwise strive to mitigate and prevent homelessness.

August 7 - Pacific Standard

Americans preference to travel in their own personal vehicles shows no signs of abating, reflected by May mileage data, the most recent compiled by the Federal Highway Administration, indicating a 2.2 percent increase compared with May 2016.

August 7 - Planetizen

Mayor Bill de Blasio is looking for new ways to fund transit improvements and access.

August 7 - The New York Times

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Motor vehicles are expensive to own and operate. Many lower-income households spend more on transportation than they can afford due to a lack of affordable mobility options. The solution is more multimodal planning.

August 7 - Todd Litman

Decision makers in cities can mistake their own preferences for the preferences of the city as a whole, which is doubly dangerous when elite preferences become the law of the land.

August 7 - Human Transit

A Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) announced by the Federal Transit Administration is designed to further the Trump Administration's goals to empower the private sector to rebuild the nation's infrastructure.

August 7 - Federal Transit Administration

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Visiting the city without zoning.

August 7 - Michael Lewyn

A streetcar project connecting Beijing with the suburb of Shunyi is newsworthy from several angles.

August 6 - The Beijinger

Though the news about the California High Speed Rail projects seems to oscillate between good and bad every month, there's at least one tangible sign of progress for the project: a new bridge in Fresno built to make room for the powerful trains.

August 6 - Fresno Bee

At the helm of a movement to think beyond concrete solutions to transportation challenges in North Texas are the mayors of Fort Worth, Grapevine, and Arlington.

August 6 - NBC DFW

A bus rapid transit proposal is still very much in the planning stages in Milwaukee, with the question of whether the route is allowed dedicated lanes along its entire length is still very much in question.

August 6 - Urban Milwaukee

The St. Louis Trolley should begin operating later this year, but planners are hoping for additional funding to allow the service to operate longer hours.

August 6 - St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Depressed by city planning in your neck of the woods? Ben Brown says to lower your expectations.

August 5 - PlaceShakers

A South Chicago neighborhood will get 20,000 new residential units if a plan goes through.

August 5 - Chicago Tribune

A 16-mile express lane and general purpose lane will be added in each direction of the San Diego Freeway in Orange County. A $629 million TIFIA loan will be repaid by toll-paying motorists, while all taxpayers pay most of the remainder.

August 5 - Daily Pilot (Los Angeles Times)

The housing crisis calls for creative solutions.

August 5 - Curbed

A project touted as the "largest pop-up bike grid in the world" achieved rare levels of success on getting people on their bikes in Macon, Georgia.

August 5 - Bicycle Times

Autonomous Rail Transit (ART) was created to provide affordable mass transit for communities that find fixed rail investments outside of their price range.

August 4 - Modern Cities