The Daily Source of Urban Planning News

A Reddit user created a transit map of the San Francisco Bay Area that connects Taco Bell locations, which, unlike rail public transit, have reached every corner of the region.

January 4 - Reddit

A stakeholder group hopes to create a pedestrian- and business-friendly streetscape in Downtown Seattle.

January 4 - The Urbanist

Linking up the last part of the Grand Rounds trail would create a continuous pedestrian and biking loop around the city.

January 4 - MinnPost

A proposed bill would open nearly 2 million acres of protected land to commercial and industrial development.

January 4 - TVO

All aboard.

January 4 - Greater Greater Washington

The Environmental Protection Agency proposed a critical change in the cost-benefit analysis used in the mercury rule that applies to coal-fired power plants. By eliminating the principle of co-benefits, public health impacts would be severe.

January 3 - The Washington Post

The planning history of Paradise, California is blamed for the destruction of the city in the Camp Fire. Can planners find new models for both limiting carbon emissions and preparing for the effects of climate change?

January 3 - Los Angeles Times

State preemption, in the form major zoning reforms and mandates for local housing targets, are on the table in the Utah Legislature this year.

January 3 - The Salt Lake Tribune

Surprise, shocking news from New York City, as Governor Andrew Cuomo steps in at the 11th hour to change course on the highly anticipated (and dreaded) L Train closure scheduled to begin later this year.

January 3 - The New York Times

The plan to top I-5 in Seattle with a cap park—what writer Natalie Bicknell calls "the most ambitious effort in our region"—is moving ahead with a $1.5 million feasibility study.

January 3 - The Urbanist

Apple has plans to build a new campus and expand its Texas workforce. The decision to expand to an Austin suburb points to both regional and national trends and outcomes.

January 3 - CityLab

BLOG POST

Some thoughts on what we might have learned in 2018 and what it might mean going forward.

January 3 - Steven Polzin

The state of Virginia won't let Washington Metro increase services that surpass a three percent subsidy cap implemented this summer.

January 3 - WTOP

The Maryland Department of Transportation was the big winner in the Federal Transit Administration's Transit-Oriented Development Pilot Planning Program, with $2 million in grant funding.

January 3 - The Sentinel

The widespread Yellow Vests protests, which initially involved hundreds of thousands of protestors in November, are wrongly being interpreted as a movement against carbon taxes and climate action, rather than a revolt against social inequities.

January 3 - World Resources Institute

Dallas's resiliency plan analyzed the best ways to combat heat in every neighborhood.

January 2 - Governing Magazine

Florida set a goal in to eventually eliminate traffic fatalities on state roads and highways as part of its 2018 Highway Safety Plan. Neither a timeline nor the words vision zero were included.

January 2 - Salud America!

A decade after Congress set a deadline for rail systems to implement positive train control, only 4 rail systems were able to get the job done on time.

January 2 - CNN

The city of Seattle is making more room for alternative transportation modes in its level of service calculations.

January 2 - The Urbanist

San Jose Mayor Sam Liccardo, an "avid biker," spent Tuesday night in the hospital after the driver of an automobile struck him as he biked through the city.

January 2 - Los Angeles Times