The Daily Source of Urban Planning News

Philadelphia looked at how interventions can change recycling and littering behavior.

January 8 - Apolitical

As many as 215,000 owners of mostly electric vehicles purchased before 2017 lost their privilege to access carpool lanes on New Year's Day. The main purpose of HOV lanes is to reduce congestion.

January 8 - Capital Public Radio

Due to various market and industry factors, developers are not planning to start many new construction projects in 2019.

January 8 - San Francisco Chronicle

The California Natural Resources Agency posted the final version of amendments to the California Environmental Quality Act, enabled by 2013's SB 743, at the end of 2018.

January 8 - Streetsblog California

BLOG POST

Despite the decline in gas prices, cars are still a luxury for many low-income Americans, and low-income zip codes still tend to have low car ownership rates.

January 8 - Michael Lewyn

The Sustainable Low Carbon Transportation ( SLoCaT) Partnership recently released the "Transport and Climate Change Global Status Report," a resource to help raise ambition on climate sustainable transportation policy actions.

January 8 - Transport and Climate Change Global Status Report

A Baltimore Sun columnist writes a scathing critique of Maryland's highway building program.

January 8 - The Baltimore Sun

If coal use phases out in Texas, renewable energy could very likely pick up the slack.

January 8 - Houston Chronicle

The U.S. Census Bureau had been without an approved director since May 2017. The Senate unanimously approved Steven Dillingham to the position with about a year to spare before the 2020 Census begins.

January 8 - NPR

The consequences of allowing the public free access to national parks without any supervision or maintenance operations are to great a risk, according to a former director of the National Park Service.

January 7 - The Guardian

There's been a lot of talk about the Green New Deal, but not that much is known about it. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.), who is promoting it, explained the program on 60 Minutes on January 6.

January 7 - Politico

A proposed waterfront plan has secured the necessary funding to move forward in Seattle, pending City Council approval.

January 7 - Crosscut

East Coast transit systems used to be the envy of other cities, but now the West Coast is taking big steps to expand their networks.

January 7 - The New York Times

FEATURE

While the debate continues unabated on the influence of the physical and land use characteristics of a city on crime, a critical aspect is left out: resident transience. Jacobs took notice and feared its negative influence. Was she right?

January 7 - Fanis Grammenos

Metro will close several stretches of the Blue and Green lines as it completes $350 million worth of upgrades and opens the new Crenshaw Line. More than 100,000 daily riders may be inconvenienced.

January 7 - Long Beach Press-Telegram

BLOG POST

Transportation planning is undergoing a paradigm shift. The new paradigm is more multi-modal and comprehensive, and so can better respond to changing travel demands and emerging community needs.

January 7 - Todd Litman

The agency hopes that allowing more bikes on trains will boost ridership for both.

January 7 - Streetsblog USA

The Massachusetts Legislature approved a tax on short-term rentals in July 2018 only to have Governor Charlie Baker amend the bill. The amendments proved only a temporary setback.

January 7 - Mass Live

After the initial shock of Governor Andrew Cuomo's cancellation of the planned L Train closure subsided, analysis and commentary rolled in.

January 7 - New York Daily News

Housing measures fared well in the 2018 election, and it's likely that Democratic contenders for the presidency in 2020 have taken notice and will boost those issues in their campaigns.

January 6 - Curbed