The Daily Source of Urban Planning News

The first draft of the five-year reauthorization of the FAST Act would expand first-year spending by 17 percent.

July 29 - Transport Topics

Uber is selling a package that includes its delivery service, bikes, scooters, and a discount on ride hailing for one price.

July 29 - TechCrunch

FEATURE

Insights into the mobile app technology used in the practice and study of planning.

July 29 - James Brasuell

Taking the stops out of the Amtrak trip between the Nation's Capital and the Big Apple will save 15 minutes and hopefully, according to Amtrak, get more people off of planes and into trains.

July 28 - USA Today

The American Public Transportation Association (APTA) named TransLink in Vancouver the best transit system in North America.

July 28 - Vancouver Sun

Two years after voters in the nine-county Bay Area agreed to hike tolls on the region's seven state-owned bridges, regional business leaders are hoping they will approve a one-cent regional sales tax to fund $100 billion in transportation projects.

July 28 - San Francisco Chronicle

The city of Nashville is trying to get back on track with some of the projects proposed in the 2016 nMotion plan—even without the massive pot of transit tax money it could have won at the ballot box.

July 28 - Streetsblog USA

Urban strategist Michele Reeves writes about the of third places importance in the urban fabric.

July 28 - UrbDeZine

People have had to take it on faith that data anoymization was adequate to the task of protecting privacy of individuals. Recent research suggests such faith was misplaced.

July 27 - CNBC

If it emulated and adapted the scope of its predecessor, the Green New Deal could transform the country in fundamental ways, with builders, planners, and architects playing central roles.

July 27 - Fast Company

Budget cuts resulted in the demise of the Office of Sustainability in the city of Louisville.

July 27 - WFPL

Ohio transportation officials are taking extra precautions against rare, but deadly, instances of wrong way driving.

July 27 - WCPO

South Western Railway will be using its own solar panels to directly supply power to trains and partially eliminate its need for outside power.

July 27 - Electrek

A pilot bus-only lane, originally intended to replace temporarily closed light rail service, has produced some big wins for transit advocates on social media.

July 26 - Metro Los Angeles via Twitter

In sharp contrast to France's yellow vest demonstrations against fuel tax hikes, Madrid residents took to the streets to keep them free of motor vehicles after new leaders were elected who vowed to rescind the driving ban enacted last November.

July 26 - CityLab

Metro Transit recently announced its plans to remove or relocate 450 bus stops systemwide in St. Louis city and county. After adjusting that number to 370 bus stops, the work of consolidating bus stops is underway.

July 26 - St. Louis Post-Dispatch

In California, recovery after wildfires means many upfront investments by communities and the state.

July 26 - The New York Times

While statewide efforts to loosen zoning restrictions have made news in (mostly) blue states like California and Oregon, (mostly) red states like Florida have been preventing local governments from passing their own housing policies.

July 26 - Pacific Standard

The developers of a large residential development in the Seat Village neighborhood of San Diego is including a large number of apartments affordable to low-income residents, but in a separate building.

July 26 - The San Diego Union-Tribune

Vision Zero has tragically failed 17 people on bikes in New York City this year, and Mayor Bill de Blasio couldn't stick with the status quo any longer.

July 26 - The New York Times