E-buses: Electric double-decker buses are coming to Los Angeles.
Loads of storage: American cities are drowning in car storage, says Streetsblog.
Better alleyways: How to make alleys better places.
Accessible Columbia: Oregon’s historic Columbia River highway will reopen with a car-free lane this fall.
Daggers for corporate architecture: CVS is fairly notable for their poor corporate architecture and urban design and a local Dallas architecture critic has taken note.
DC green bill: Washington, D.C. politicians are considering a very ambitious green energy bill.
Another report: The National Transportation Safety Board received an update on the whys and hows of December’s deadly Amtrak Cascades derailment and it’s a little shocking.
Public spaces: The Gehl Institute has a new guide inclusion and health in public spaces.
Target on The Ave: Target is graciously trying to fit in on The Ave.
Housing funding solutions: Cities across the country are now moving to tax big business, including San Francisco, to fund housing and alleviate homelessness.
Packed or not?: Some Northern Virginia communities think they’re full.
Adapting to climate change: The Army Corps of Engineers is looking at swinging gates to manage sea level rise of New York City’s harbor.
Building up: In Philadelphia, rowhouse owners are building up instead of leaving the neighborhood to “trade up.”
Missing middle: In Olympia, a former mayor and city councilmember argues for missing middle housing.
Lock it up: A new Seattle gun law will require owners to lock them up.
Decongesting Oregon roads: Oregon’s state transportation commission wants to hear what people have to say about decongestion pricing.
New TOD bid process: King County has reopened the bidding process for affordable transit-oriented development at Northgate with an option for free land ($).
A new trend?: Capitol Hill may get its first condominium building for the first time in a long time.
Failure to protect: Baltimore’s fire department is harassing and intimidating advocates for sensible safe streets improvements.
New Tacoman urbanites: With runaway housing costs in Seattle, urban dwellers are trying out Tacoma.
Minne EJ: Minneapolis wants to tackle environmental justice.
Progressive bikeshare: Students at Portland State University will get free passes for the city’s Biketown bikeshare system.
Spokane’s highway boondoggle: The North Spokane Expressway has been designated as a highway boondoggle by U.S. PIRG.
Unethical management: Uber has fired its whole autonomous vehicle unit in Pittsburgh in the wake of the company programming its cars to kill pedestrians.
