The Daily Source of Urban Planning News

Blogger and transit consultant Jarrett Walker paints a picture of Portland's Line 75, a workaday bus serving urban neighborhoods outside downtown. His reflections on radial and orbital journeys are worth a read.

July 5 - Bus75.org

How cities around the world have approached thinking about how water management fits in to urban planning.

July 5 - The Planning Report

A bill to replenish the state transportation trust fund by increasing the gas tax 23 cents per gallon stalled in the Senate because it would also cut $2 billion annually to the state's general fund.

July 5 - Planetizen

Researchers have made a positive link between increased greenery in a child's neighborhoods and a reduction in aggressive behavior.

July 5 - Pacific Standard

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Planners, like any other professionals, live in a kind of bubble. Those charged with dealing with the public run the risk of expecting too much from residents as they design community engagement activities. Here are some of the most common mistakes.

July 5 - Dave Biggs

An analysis of the geographic distribution of New York's new public plazas sought to determine if the program was meeting one of its stated goals: providing access to public plazas for low- and moderate-income households.

July 5 - Placemeter

Where they are, what they're like, and what they mean for the city.

July 5 - WDET

Operated by Canadian oil giant Enbridge, Line 5 is an underwater pipeline running beneath the Mackinac Straits, which connect Michigan's upper and lower peninsulas. A rupture in the aging pipes could mean catastrophe.

July 5 - Pacific Standard

San Antonio provides a case study of the difficult politics of funding affordable housing measures.

July 5 - San Antonio Express News

The Better Bike Share Conference convened in Philadelphia on June 22-24, 2016. Attendees gathered to find solutions for challenges of equity, social justice, and mobility in the country's emerging bikeshare infrastructure.

July 5 - Better Bike Share Partnership

Here's what the Planetizen audience was reading on the July 4ths of yesteryear.

July 4 - Planetizen

An intrepid student has created a simple chatbot program that helps people get out of parking tickets.

July 4 - Ars Technica

The findings of a report on changes occurring in Philadelphia Center City finds more residents and workers walking, biking, and taking transit. (Thankfully, they aren't all looking for parking every day.)

July 4 - PlanPhilly

Sometimes small additions can make a big difference when it comes to bike infrastructure.

July 4 - Greater Greater Washington

Los Angeles voters will be asked to approve a new property tax on residential and commercial properties to pay for a $1.2 billion to improve the city's worsening homelessness problem.

July 4 - Los Angeles Daily News

Two axles is two axles, doesn't matter whether the vehicle is motorized or not. However, cyclists will be restricted as to when they can cross the Thomas J. Hatem Memorial Bridge (US 40) over the Susquehanna River when it opens to cyclists July 1.

July 3 - Maryland Transportation Authority (MDTA) News Release

Most people agree that Fort Lauderdale's "South Beach" is in need of contemporary development investment, but so far it's been hard to deliver on any of the big ideas proposed for the area.

July 3 - Sun Sentinal

The city of Tigard could make or break the proposed Southwest Corridor light rail project with a vote this November.

July 3 - The Oregonian

The City Council in Oakland, California took its first, substantive steps toward banning the handling and storage of coal in the city.

July 3 - NBC Bay Area

Connecticut state legislators may not like vehicle-miles-traveled (VMT) fees, but that hasn't stopped the state Department of Transportation from joining other states in applying for $2.1 million from the U.S. DOT to study the road user fee.

July 3 - The Hartford Courant