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Increasing allowable densities and reducing parking requirements are important strategies for achieving long-term planning goals, but to succeed they must be applied to large areas.

February 4 - Todd Litman

Linking Uber and transit is an attempt to bridge the first-and-last-mile issue for Denver users.

February 4 - Curbed

The leadership of neighborhood associations does not reflect the city’s demographics. In the future, funding of the groups could be dependent on reaching diversity benchmarks.

February 4 - Star Tribune

Civic San Diego and San Diego planning commissioners approved new parking standards that would eliminate minimums and set maximums of one space per multifamily unit. Those reforms and more must still be approved by the City Council.

February 4 - The San Diego Union-Tribune

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Although individual old buildings may be less expensive than newer ones nearby, historic preservation may make both old and new buildings more expensive.

February 4 - Michael Lewyn

Students at the University of California, Los Angeles are using ride-hailing companies to get between classes on campuses. The effect is far from the congestion and emissions reducing idea many hoped for from companies like Uber and Lyft.

February 4 - Daily Bruin

Road pricing has its faults as a revenue measure, but it needs to be compared to ten elements of the current system of paying for transportation, including hidden subsidies, says Joe Cortright, an urban economist with Portland-based City Observatory.

February 4 - City Observatory

Besides addressing mobility needs, activists hope a new transit option will make more of the city accessible for the disabled.

February 4 - Badger Herald

The Census Bureau expects misinformation campaigns like those leading to the 2016 President Election to sway the results of the 2020 Census.

February 4 - Nextgov

Sandpoint, Idaho removed minimum parking requirements a decade ago. The city's director of planning describes what happened since.

February 4 - Strong Towns

Traffic and cars play a central role in the social media chatter surrounding the Super Bowl in Atlanta.

February 3 - Planetizen

The hot dogs cost $1,999,999,998 less than the stadium, and either $199,999,998 or $699,999,998 less than taxpayers invested in the stadium.

February 3 - CBS News

The pedestrian bridge connecting Mercedes-Benz Stadium to a nearby transit stop won't be open in time for the Super Bowl, despite the city allocating an additional $12 million in funding for exactly that goal.

February 3 - Curbed Atlanta

The city of Atlanta pledged to clear the city's homeless encampments before the Super Bowl.

February 3 - WABE

Twenty-four-hour service is a bigger deal than the game, if you're a fan of public transit and don't care that much for the sport of football.

February 3 - Atlanta Intown

Delays in constructing an extensive truck-only toll system have caused a shortfall in toll revenue affecting the Rhode Island DOT budget. A promise to repair bridges repair means a big cut for bike and pedestrian funding.

February 2 - Providence Journal

The Transbay Transit Center, opened for a brief stint in the latter half of 2018 before structural flaws were discovered, won't be open to the public again anytime soon.

February 2 - San Francisco Chronicle

California and Arizona couldn't come to terms on a drought contingency plan for the Colorado River, compelling the Department of the Interior to act.

February 2 - KQED

Seattle is going beyond transit oriented development by building apartments on parcels of land near stations.

February 2 - CityLab

Regional governance and more bus lanes are needed to improve ridership, according to a new study.

February 2 - The Washington Post