The New Colonist

Planners and transit buffs routinely make the case that Bay Area residents can reap benefits by living close to their jobs and the errands of the day.

A streetcar revival in American cities isn't just kicking up sparks from the tracks. They're flying down at city hall, too.In Boise, a proposed $60 million trolley plan became a major theme of local elections Tuesday. Likewise, mayoral races in Charlott...

The Cincinnati streetcar plan remains on track today after winning a major - but perhaps not final - victory Tuesday when city voters decided that they want choices about passenger rail made at City Hall, not at the polls.

Momentum Magazine in Canada has published an article by New Colonist editor Richard Risemberg, covering the history and present state bicycle travel and advocacy in the original sprawlville, Los Angeles, where he has lived for over half a century. Says Risemberg:

An innovative policy to fight suburban sprawl catapulted Maryland into the national spotlight a decade ago and became then-Gov. Parris N. Glendening's principal legacy.

Form-Based Code: Form-based codes foster predictable built results and a high-quality public realm by using physical form (rather than separation of uses) as the organizing principle for the code. These codes are adopted into city or county law as regulations, not mere guidelines. ...

On Tuesday, Subsidy Scope, a subsidiary of the Pew Charitable Trust, reported that Amtrak, America's passenger rail company, "lost" an average of $38 per passenger. Citing a new metric for train depreciation, ...

The once-grand, 14-room cottage has become a tumbledown eyesore, its glory sullied by peeling red paint, boarded-up windows and a crumbling roof.

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