The Daily Source of Urban Planning News

Developers can be our friends, according to this article, as they have been before.

July 30 - The New York Times

The United States should end homelessness, substantially increase funding for community land trusts, and support local rent control ordinances and inclusionary zoning requirements, according to an op-ed by the presidential candidate.

July 30 - CNN

The massive layoffs represent one-third of Uber's global marketing team.

July 30 - Quartz

Police are enforcing speed limits in the name of public safety in North Haledon, New jersey. Drivers are being urged to respect the speed limit.

July 30 - The North Jersey Record

A designer was chosen in January, and conceptual rendering were released in July. Project boosters are also pushing an ambitious timeline that would start construction in late 2020.

July 30 - Curbed New York

Alliance 90/The Greens, a political party in Germany, wants the country's domestic travel to shift completely to rail. Achieving that goal will require making air travel more expensive and rail travel cheaper and easier.

July 29 - Euractiv

The high-profile Central Subway is in danger of running out of money, according to a federal watchdog.

July 29 - San Francisco Examiner

The New York City MTA has changed the story, twice, about its plans for little used WiFi service on the city buses.

July 29 - The City

A new light rail station scheduled for 2036 has one group in Everett, Washington thinking big.

July 29 - HeraldNet

How far is BART willing to go to stop people from jumping fare gates? Social media users have called new fare gates "skull crushers" and "inverted guillotines."

July 29 - KQED

Next month, the Trump administration rolls out one of their most significant environmental rollbacks, freezing auto emission and fuel efficiency standards at 2020 levels. The deal unveiled by Gov. Gavin Newsom on Thursday may upend Trump's plans.

July 29 - The Washington Post

The whole idea of public transit will be up for reconsideration in Phoenix on August 27.

July 29 - AP via ABC 15

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