New York

• TfL contactless fare payment system could come to NYC
• A History of Inwood’s 215th Street Incinerator Smokestacks
• DOT Lays Out a Strategy to Make Left Turns Less Dangerous

Public Policy

• Drive-to Urbanism
• Obama to Leave the White House a Nerdier Place Than He Found It
• Zero-Waste Japanese Town Creates Building From Abandoned Materials

Transportation

• Northeast Corridor, 95% Cheaper: Frankford Junction
• The Lonely Ballad of the Dulles Airport Mobile Lounge
• What are the Strong Tramway Corridors?
• Mixing Circumferential and Radial Transit in the Other Direction
• Union Station’s concourse could get a big facelift
• Traffic-straddling bus makes first test run on Chinese roads

Other

• SF’s landmark tower for rich and famous is sinking and tilting – the concrete framed building with a raft foundation sunk 16 inches and tilted 2 inches.
• The Optimal U.S. National Parks Centennial Road Trip