The Daily Source of Urban Planning News

This article considers the impacts of driverless cars, or autonomous vehicles, on bicycle planning and what a 'low stress' bicycle route may look like in the future.

January 9 - Good Urban Places

The recently approved federal education law includes a provision that allows students to take alternative forms of transportation to and from school with parental permission.

January 9 - New York Post

A local developer has proposed a $400 million development that would add several game-changing uses to Downtown San Diego.

January 8 - The San Diego Union-Tribune

The motivations to walk or bike vary greatly by income levels, according to a new study from researchers at the University of Washington. The wealthy, as it turns out, are the outliers.

January 8 - University of Washington

A plan in Singapore to transform the former Keretapi Tanah Melayu railway will create a linear park ten times longer than the High Line.

January 8 - Quartz

Anchorage Mayor Ethan Berkowitz has asked Alaska Governor Bill Walker to transfer more than 24 parcels of state land for high density housing.

January 8 - Alaska Dispatch News

The New York governor continues his tour of New York, promoting his big ticket capital agenda, yet not suggesting any means to pay for them. Worse yet, he restricts new funding options, like increased tolls, adding costs to the transportation budget.

January 8 - The New York Times

The funding allotment for the Land and Water Conservation Fund (LWCF) included in the Omnibus spending bill marked a substantial increase over previous years.

January 8 - APA Policy News

Portland's forthcoming bikeshare system, now dubbed Biketown, will be expanded from its original scale as a result of the support of the corporate giant.

January 8 - The Oregonian

The new Transit Explorer tool offers a new way to visualize the scale of the country's transit infrastructure investments. Spoiler alert: 2016 will be a big year.

January 8 - the transport politic

The futuristic transportation idea known as the Hyperloop is starting to look real. CNN Money caught up with the leaders of one of the companies working to make the dream of super-fast, efficient intercity travel a reality.

January 8 - CNN Money

The state of Maryland and the city of Baltimore are partnering on a massive redevelopment effort.

January 8 - The Baltimore Sun

A new study quantifies the amount of space devoted to parking in Los Angeles County—a figure that just begs to be visualized.

January 7 - Better Institutions

San Francisco's largest cab company is planning to file for bankruptcy very soon. The competition from transportation network companies is forcing the company, and likely the industry, to completely restructure.

January 7 - San Francisco Examiner

Several key factors, not the least of which was cheap gas, combined to make 2015 a record year for new passenger vehicle sales, smashing the 2009 record of 10.4 million sales and edging-out the prior record of 17.40 million sales in 2000.

January 7 - The Washington Post

This is cool: a Brazilian publisher created pocket books that double as transit tickets—and gave away 10,000 of them, each loaded with ten free transit rides.

January 7 - Open Culture

Target announced recently that almost all of the stores it expects to open in 2016 and 2017 will be located in urban areas.

January 7 - Fortune

Advocates are concerned that too many of Denver's new retail marijuana business are locating in neighborhoods with mostly minority and low-income residents.

January 7 - The Denver Post

A list of the cities doing the most to build infill development, courtesy of Infill Score.

January 7 - Infill Score

It's easy to focus on the sensational headlines based on the fraud committed by Volkswagen, but doing so masks the deadly and ongoing problems of diesel emissions plaguing the world's densely populated cities.

January 7 - The New York Times