The Daily Source of Urban Planning News

The station on the White House grounds has been reinstated as part of Capital Bikeshare's push to expand the network by dozens of new stations by the end of the year.

October 6 - The Washington Post

The cost of 'deadheading'–the time ride-hailing drivers spend looking for fares–offsets any environmental benefits created by the industry, despite early claims that the apps would reduce congestion and air pollution.

October 5 - Bloomberg CityLab

'Playable' public spaces can be a powerful tool for creating vibrant, communal, and equitable cities.

October 5 - StreetsBlog NYC

The funding was directed to congestion mitigation, air quality, and transportation alternatives projects.

October 5 - Houston Chronicle

Renter protections are a contentious issue, but that only increases the need for honest and transparent debate.

October 5 - Crosscut

Idaho state law prevents local voters from implementing the sales taxes that generate revenue to match federal funding for transportation projects, taking local and regional projects out of the running for many federal grant programs.

October 5 - Magic Valley

The 65 new units will include single-family homes with ADUs, duplexes, and fourplexes, according to Invest Atlanta.

October 5 - Urbanize Atlanta

The city of Philadelphia launched a height and density bonus in 2018 to create incentives for the development of affordable housing, but so far the results have proven underwhelming.

October 5 - PlanPhilly

Mobility advocates say the city must do more to make transit and alternative transportation modes more convenient for drivers.

October 5 - Streetsblog New York City

An analysis of searches for walking directions shows dramatic increases in walking in cities across the country.

October 4 - CommercialCafe

Although intercity buses provide a crucial service to millions of Americans, the industry has been shut out of recent pandemic assistance programs while riders continue to experience dismal facilities and shrinking service options.

October 4 - Governing

The most vaccinated state in the U.S. may tell us where the future of the country is headed in the war against the coronavirus. Could it become a 'pandemic of the vaccinated'?

October 4 - WPTZ

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Actual demand for a place's housing might exceed increases in the number of residents or households.

October 4 - Michael Lewyn

County officials claim the region has not seen improved transit service despite the infusion of federal funding aimed at increasing service in small urbanized areas.

October 4 - Colorado Public Radio

The Boston City Council approved a new ordinance would eliminate emissions from the 4 percent of the buildings responsible for 60 percent of the city's building emissions.

October 4 - Smart Cities Dive

Planning is politics, an Atlanta case study.

October 4 - SaportaReport

Mayor Bill de Blasio in 2014 set a goal to eliminate traffic fatalities from New York City. Now, with de Blasio preparing to leave office, more people are dying on the city's streets than when he made that announcement.

October 4 - The New York Times

A recent survey of Seattle voters finds widespread support for the continued expansion of the Link light rail system in Seattle.

October 3 - Seattle Transit Blog

The one-year moratorium is a stopgap measure to assist homeowners affected by recent wildfires as the state assesses ways of addressing the root causes of increasingly damaging natural disasters.

October 3 - Sacramento Bee

Bloomberg Philanthropies is funding projects that take an artistic approach to traffic safety.

October 3 - Bloomberg Philanthropies