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Over the past two years or so, transit ridership has begun to decline. It seems that this decline has been most widespread among cities with relatively weak transit systems.

January 16 - Michael Lewyn

South Korea has made public transit a key part of its approach to cleaning the air.

January 15 - The Korea Times

Like many cities before it, Shreveport's downtown is transforming through the renovation of historic buildings.

January 15 - Shreveport Times

A new study finds evidence that ride-hailing trips are at least as efficient, and often more efficient, than private, personal automobile trips.

January 15 - San Francisco Chronicle

The Australian toll road company, Transurban, will build two, 10-mile reversible express lanes for Virginia Department of Transportation and provide $277 million for a new bridge in the corridor. Free for carpools, others will pay a variable toll.

January 15 - The Washington Post

The deliverables in the Future City competition—open to children in grades six through eight—include a virtual city design (using SimCity), a scale model, a project plan, and more.

January 15 - The Mercury News

In a region where most people “age in place,” facilities offering services and socialization give primary caregivers a much-needed break.

January 15 - The Texas Observer

The State Lands Commission filed suit shortly after San Francisco voters approved Prop. B in June 2014, requiring waterfront developments exceeding height limits to obtain voter approval rather than go through the Planning Commission process.

January 15 - San Francisco Examiner

Like so many other transportation policies, congestion pricing risks being sold for the wrong reasons.

January 15 - StreetsBlog NYC

Surveying the public discussion for answers about how to make sense of placemaking.

January 15 - Arch Daily

A new study by Rahul Pathaka, Christopher K. Wyczalkowskib, Xi Huangb produces new evidence for the most effective method for improving conditions of poverty.

January 15 - Chicago Policy Review

This list is a wishlist of the most ambitious possible YIMBY political platform.

January 14 - Urbanize LA

Oregon legislators are hard at work on two new "cap and invest" bills that would establish a "market-based, carrot-and-stick approach to reducing greenhouse gas pollution."

January 14 - The Oregonian

A modest toll increase, $3 over six years, took a major step forward with the approval of a key Bay Area Toll Authority committee. With the exception of the Bay Bridge, the round-trip toll on each of the region's seven state-owned bridges is $5.

January 14 - SF Gate

Curbed has produced a list of ten megaprojects that will reshape U.S. cities this year.

January 14 - Curbed

Commuters are voting with their feet in Toronto as ridership surges on the King Street streetcar after changes that restricted cars along the route.

January 14 - The Globe and Mail

Of the city’s newest, tallest building John King writes, “[it’s] as if the creators were so busy being tasteful they forgot that big buildings can be fun."

January 13 - San Francisco Chronicle

A stretch of land along the Monongahela River is attracting multiple deep-pocketed investors.

January 13 - Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

As a case study for the rest of the country, Colorado offers striking examples of the rural-urban divide.

January 13 - The Denver Post

A critique of the "Wisconsin: It's more you" ad campaign serves as a lesson for anyone who throws the word Millennial around like a magic talisman.

January 13 - Chicago Tribune