Recently appointed Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao has ordered a stop payment on the $647 million grant for electrification of the Caltrain right of way in the Bay Area until a full audit is done on high-speed rail. >>read more

Deportation is — to say the least — the most perverse way to solve a housing crisis. >>read more

The U.S. House of Representatives voted to overturn the Bureau of Land Management’s “Planning 2.0” rule, which took effect in December. >>read more

The San Francisco Board of Supervisors approved an ordinance to encourage developers to establish Transportation Demand Management (TDM) programs in many new projects citywide. >>read more

The New Urban Crisis provides a tidy, timely summary of the current urban problem, in all its enormity. >>read more

San Francisco’s Greenbelt Alliance released At Risk: The Bay Area Greenbelt, which found that 293,100 acres of farmland and natural spaces are eligible for development in the next few decades. >>read more