The Daily Source of Urban Planning News

Having completed a pilot program last year, the Washington State Transportation Commission will hear a report in October and vote in December on phasing out its 49.4 cents per gallon gas tax, fourth highest in the nation but not indexed to inflation.

August 15 - Tacoma News Tribune

A new indoor vertical farming venture in Chicago seeks to change agricultural production by harnessing technology.

August 15 - Chicago Tribune

The "Flash" bus rapid transit system proposed in Montgomery County, Maryland took a crucial step forward at the end of July.

August 15 - Greater Greater Washington

A thorough and damning indictment of 20th century land use and infrastructure planning, and its contemporary legacy of segregation and congestion.

August 15 - The New York Times Magazine

It's been six months since Amazon rescinded its plans to build a second headquarters in New York City. The neighborhood planned for the facility could still see a huge benefit from an ambitious development, according to this opinion.

August 15 - Crain's New York Business

A feature article revisits the gentrification and displacement discussion, especially as it pertains to racial and economic demographics, in one of the nation's most troubled and challenging housing markets.

August 14 - The Mercury News

Zappos, a shoe company, is working with Geoship, a geodesic dome company, to build a village of the domes in Las Vegas.

August 14 - FastCompany

Houston's potential as a multi-modal city will be on the ballot this November.

August 14 - Houston Chronicle

The company hopes that a broader service area and discounted rides will help people better access transit services.

August 14 - Chicago Tribune

In July, a local nonprofit closed down an entire street in the Ohio City neighborhood of Cleveland for a placemaking experiment that had to be partially dismantled before the three-month duration of the program was complete.

August 14 - The Plain Dealer

Sacramento Regional Transit is overhauling its bus system in September, so they old signs for stops will have to go. Instead of scrapping the old signs, the agency is giving them away for collectors' items.

August 14 - The Sacramento Bee

There hasn't been a passenger rail connection between Detroit and Toronto since 1971, but that could change.

August 14 - Wood TV 8

The Green Line extension will bring light rail service from Boston to Somerville and Medford, when it's done.

August 14 - The Boton Globe

This pop quiz will probably expand knowledge about cities more than test it, because the questions and answers are pretty obscure.

August 14 - The Guardian

The prosecution rests.

August 14 - Streetsblog USA

The longest rail line in the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority system will be extended again, and could eventually cross county lines.

August 13 - Daily Bulletin

There is a lot of development and planning intrigue about a casino developer and the extremely challenging plan to add an on-ramp to the Schuylkill Expressway in South Philadelphia.

August 13 - The Philadelphia Inquirer

The Ride smartphone app, which has gathered millions of miles of bike trip data to help inform bike planning and encourage cycling, is moving on to micromobility.

August 13 - Bike Portland

The glitzy new neighborhood doesn’t cater to all Boston residents, according to a new survey.

August 13 - The Boston Globe

A big feature explores the effects of climate change, which are already very much changing life in the United States.

August 13 - The Washington Post