03:05 PM
NYC: Eyes on the Street: Don’t Park in the Low Post : Photo: Susan Donovan Streetsblog reader Susan Donovan, a.k.a. Futurebird, posted this pic on Instagram yesterday....
Streetsblog
03:05 PM
NYC: Lander and Levin to DOT: A Safer Fourth Avenue Can’t Wait : The left-turn bans opposed by CB 6 protect pedestrians from turning drivers and widen medians while reducing crossing distances....
Streetsblog
02:50 PM
New FRA Rail Crossing Locator app puts safety information in your pocket : When we say that safety is our top priority, we aren't kidding around....
Welcome to the Fast Lane
01:35 PM
NYC: CB 10 Delays Vote on Fourth Avenue Safety Plan Until October : Fourth Avenue in Bay Ridge will still have high rates of speeding after Community Board 10's vote to delay a safety plan approved by its transportation committee....
Streetsblog
01:35 PM
BC Should Examine Its Carbon Ledger : In the wake of British Columbia’s recent election, climate activist Kevin Washbrook and I have an op-ed in the latest edition of Business In Vancouver magazine....
Sightline - The Daily Score blog
12:07 PM
Party Photos! UO Block Party 2013 : The 2013 Block Party was a blast! Big thanks to everyone that came out last week to support Urban Omnibus....
Urban Omnibus
12:05 PM
NYC: Q&A: How Does StreetsPAC Judge Candidates’ Commitment to Safer Streets? : NYC’s first livable streets political action committee, StreetsPAC, released its first round of endorsements today....
Streetsblog
10:35 AM
Ugly by Law : Cars have shaped much of the North American West, including Cascadia, where drive-through restaurants, shopping centers, highway strip malls, and single-family neighborhoods miles from commercial serv...
Sightline - The Daily Score blog
09:35 AM
A Reality Check on a Plan for a Swift Post-Fossil Path for New York : A journal that published an ambitious plan for New York State to go fossil free in a few decades now runs a critique....
Dot Earth
09:15 AM
Safety on two wheels? There’s an app for that : Some cities in Brazil have turned to the internet as a way to improve cyclist safety One of the best modes of transport for a sustainable world – one that offers health benefits, increased m...
The City Fix
09:05 AM
NYC: NYPD Shoot Fish in a Barrel : Photo: Doug Gordon Doug Gordon of Brooklyn Spoke fame reports that NYPD sent a battalion of bike enforcers out to the intersection of Chrystie Street and Rivington Street on the Lower East Side this m...
Streetsblog
08:50 AM
USMMA Commencement: looking back, forward with the Class of 2013 : The U.S. Merchant Marine Academy Class of 2013 began their time at Kings Point in the summer of 2009. Earlier that year, I began my time at the U.S. Department of Transportation....
Welcome to the Fast Lane
08:20 AM
Conversations : Economist Robert Frank wrote in the NY Times "What Sweden Can Tell Us About Obamacare." One could add that the U.S....
Peter Gordon's Blog
06:53 AM
Tuesday briefing : Storm grates that are unsafe for cyclists continue to cost Nashville. Tennessean Nashville Symphony lays off catering, dining staff. Tennessean Downtown Chattanooga's Patten Towers soon may reopen....
Property Scope
06:52 AM
How the East Bay Bicycle Coalition is Making Ridership Accessible to all Residents : Promoting bicycle ridership has become a widespread mission across many regions, ranging from small towns to large cities....
Global Site Plans: The Grid
06:49 AM
Learning from Tourism-Based Transit: An Orlando, Florida, Case Study : Orlando, Florida, is consistently the most-visited city in the United States with 48 million annual tourists....
Global Site Plans: The Grid
06:05 AM
NYC: Today’s Headlines : LIRR Train Derails Near Penn Station, No Injuries; Impacts Linger to Morning Commute (WSJ, NYT 1, 2) MTA in Talks to Pay for Citi Bike Expansion During G Train Sandy Repair (News, 2nd Avenue Sagas) Mo...
Streetsblog
03:00 AM
Walking Distance, Part 1 : Today I'm starting a two-part blog post on walking in cities. In the first part of this post, we'll look at the question of how far people are willing to walk in real-world circumstances....
Strong Towns
12:35 AM
Recreation Fee Testimony : The Antiplanner is testifying this morning before the House Public Lands Subcommittee in favor of allowing federal land agencies to charge dispersed recreation fees (agencies today can charge for deve...
The Antiplanner
Jun 17
Economics study shows a case for slimmer dimensioned higher laned urban highways : 2013-06-17: Economists in southern California find that slimmer slower highways with extra lanes are a better investment in urban areas than the AASHTO standard 'freeway' with 12ft, 3.65m lanes and 10...
Toll Roads News
Jun 17
NYC: TA: 88% of Brooklyn Drivers Are Speeding, And Almost None Get Tickets : Nearly nine in ten Brooklyn drivers is speeding, and three in ten are traveling more than 10 mph above the speed limit....
Streetsblog
Jun 17
NYC: Eyes on the Street: NYC’s Car-Free Streets Season Gets Started : The scene on Bedford Avenue at North 7th Street this weekend during the Williamsburg Walks car-free event....
Streetsblog
Jun 17
Global Warming and Our Inconvenient Minds : A fun chat on humans' inconvenient minds and why they make finding consensus on climate hard, but consensus on some smart energy steps easy....
Dot Earth
Jun 17
NYC: This Week: Mayoral Forum on Transportation, Safety, Livability : There are key meetings this week about Fourth Avenue in Bay Ridge, the Sheridan Expressway in the South Bronx, and a new protected bike lane for the Pulaski Bridge between Brooklyn and Queens....
Streetsblog
Jun 17
NYC: Eyes on the Street: Hole in the Hudson River Greenway in Washington Heights : A tipster sent us photos of what looks like a sinkhole in the Hudson River Greenway just north of 181st Street, in Washington Heights....
Streetsblog
Jun 17
Guest blogger RITA Dep. Administrator Greg Winfree: Ride To Work Day an opportunity for improving safety : Today marks the 21st Annual Ride to Work Day—when tens of thousands of motorcycle enthusiasts across the U.S. ride their motorcycles to work in a show of mutual support and solidarity....
Welcome to the Fast Lane
Jun 17
Climate? Si se puede! : Photo: The White House.Political calculus and moral calculus unfortunately don’t always line up....
Sightline - The Daily Score blog
Jun 17
NYC: Casey Neistat: Getting Around NYC Is a Huge Pain, But Not on Citi Bike : Don’t let the title of the video fool you. As filmmaker Casey Neistat says, getting around NYC can be a hassle....
Streetsblog
Jun 17
Appeals court rules against Mike Ross in civil case : The 6th Circuit U.S....
Property Scope
Jun 17
NYC: It’s Up to Albany to Give Select Bus Service Its Flashing Lights Back : Photo: MTA Bus/Flickr The elimination of flashing blue lights on the MTA’s Select Bus Service vehicles is probably the most absurd transit setback of the past year....
Streetsblog
Jun 17
“The car is the cigarette of the future” : Jaime Lerner was the father of Curitiba’s bus rapid transit (BRT) system and believes car culture will soon be a thing of the past....
The City Fix
Jun 17
Partnership for Sustainable Communities marks 4th anniversary with web-streaming Twitter Town Hall : By Bob Perciasepe, Maurice Jones, and John Porcari June 16, 2013 marks the four-year anniversary of the Partnership for Sustainable Communities, a collaboration of the U.S....
Welcome to the Fast Lane
Jun 17
City of Parks: The Inherent Importance of Park Land Preservation and Planning : The Trust for Public Land Park Score index ranked the “City of Lakes” Minneapolis, Minnesota as the #1 Park System in the Nation, with New York, NY coming in second....
Global Site Plans: The Grid
Jun 17
NYC: Today’s Headlines : Citi Bike Trips Top 250,000 (NY1) Is the Daily News Positioning Itself as the Pro-Bike-Share Tabloid? WSJ Asks: Where Are the Rest of Citi Bike’s 6,000 Bikes? Times Finds Citi Bike Users Forgiving of...
Streetsblog
Jun 17
New Working Spaces for New Working Conditions: The Rise of Co-Working Spaces : It’s been a hard day’s night And I’ve been working like a dog It’s been a hard day’s night I should be sleeping like a log If the Beatles had the chance to rewrite these verses today, they should prob...
Global Site Plans: The Grid
Jun 17
Access for All: Our #thegrid Social Equity and Inclusiveness Twitter Chat Recap : After raising the question of how to achieve social equity and inclusiveness in urban planning, within our previous post, Global Site Plans’ The Grid and the Center for Social Inclusion turned to Twit...
Global Site Plans: The Grid
Jun 17
Monday briefing : Protomet expanding, to add 30 jobs. KNS Second location open for Coffee and Chocolate. Stuck Inside of Knoxville Oak Ridger building sold; paper to continue to publish....
Property Scope
Jun 17
Dumb Money, Day 5 : I've spent the weekend pondering how to bring this series to a conclusion and I decided that these last two pieces -- the optimistic and the pessimistic view of the future -- will, for the sake of foc...
Strong Towns
Jun 17
Back in the Air Again : The Antiplanner is traveling to Washington DC today where I’ll testify tomorrow before the House Public Lands Subcommittee on federal land recreation fees....
The Antiplanner
Jun 16
RI Supreme Court Holds Zoning Board Violated Open Meetings Act by Failing to Provide Adequate Notice to the Public : In November of 2008, the City of Newport received a letter from Congregation Jeshuat Israel requesting an extension the time to make improvements to its property that had previously been approved on t...
Law of the Land
Jun 16
NJ Appeals Court Upholds Zoning Board’s Determination that Nonconforming Use of Body Piercing was Abandoned : This case involved a lessee’s desire to operate a body piercing business along with a tattoo parlor in “Zone A,” the amusement section of the Boardwalk in Wildwood, New Jersey....
Law of the Land
Jun 16
Fed. Dist. Court in Texas Upholds Ordinance Regulating Classifications of Gentlemen’s Clubs : In 2003, the City of San Antonio enacted an ordinance regulating gentlemen’s club and in 2005 the City adopted another ordinance prohibiting nude and topless dancing in public places and requiring per...
Law of the Land
Jun 16
DE Supreme Court Reverses Adjustment Board’s Denial of Special Use Exception to Erect a Cell Tower : Cingular (which became AT&T during the pendency of this litigation) applied to the board of adjustment for a special use exception to construct a 100-foot cell tower....
Law of the Land
Jun 16
Second Circuit Court of Appeals Holds that Failure to Give Notice of Amendments to Zoning Laws to Landowners Did Not Violate Procedural Due Process : This case involves the City of Middletown, New York’s 2009 amendment to zoning laws that prohibited nonconforming uses of non-owner-occupied multiple dwellings in various zoning districts....
Law of the Land
Jun 16
CA District Court of Appeals Upholds Local Zoning Ordinance Regulating Medical Marijuana Dispensary and Finds Owner Had No Vested Right to Use : This case deals with a city’s attempts to prevent the operation of a medical marijuana dispensary within its limits....
Law of the Land
Jun 16
Missouri Appeals Court Holds Conditions on Special Use Permit for Pawn Shop Must Relate to the Proposed Use and May Not Be Imposed to Eliminate a Nonconforming Use : Curry Investments sought a special use permit to establish a pawn shop on their property....
Law of the Land
Jun 16
VA Sup. Court Overturns Circuit Court’s Decision to Grant Variances in Historical District : James and Christine Garner (Garner) purchased a lot at 122 Prince Street in an historic district in Alexandria, VA....
Law of the Land
Jun 16
NY Appellate Court Upholds Area Variances for Pizza Parlor : Manhasset Pizza, LLC (Manhasset Pizza) desired  to convert a vacant storefront into a 45-seat full service dine-in restaurant on Plandome Road in the Town of North Hempstead....
Law of the Land
Jun 16
New Publication: GIS and Agent-Based models for Humanitarian Assistance : Inputs to the model As the readers of the blog know, we have an interest in GIS, agent-based modeling and crowdsourcing. Now we have a paper that combines all these three elements....
GIS and Agent-Based Modelling
Jun 15
Can we all just get along? : World War II ended in the popular imagination when the troops came home to victory celebrations and reunions....
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