Super Bowl and Seahawks Victory Parade Break Transit Ridership Records in Bay Area and Seattle - h/t SFGate

With Zero Office Conversions in Four Years, San Francisco Pins Hopes on New Special Financing District - h/t San Francisco Chronicle

How Placemaking Lost its Way — And How it Can Get Back on Track - h/t Strong Towns

UMich Students Install DIY Bus Benches in Ann Arbor - h/t Michigan Daily

Mess Might Just be the Secret Weapon That Planners Forgot

Mamdani to Revive Multiple Complete Streets Projects Killed by Adams - h/t StreetsBlog NYC

Minneapolis Activists Use DIY Traffic Circles to Identify, Slow ICE - h/t MinnPost

South Carolina Mapping Tool Tracks Marsh Migration From Sea Level Rise - h/t Governing

Atlanta Suburbs are Legislating Against Corporate Landlords - h/t Bloomberg CityLab

Florida Senate Advances Law Allowing ADUs in All Residential Zones - h/t Fox 13 News

NJ Transit to Cut Service by Half for 4 Weeks for Gateway Project Work - h/t 6sqft

NYC Mayor Mamdani Backs Down on Expanded Rental Assistance Program, Citing $7 Billion Deficit - h/t The New York Times

San Diego Regional Transportation Plan Shifts Away From Big Projects to Focus on Improving Existing Infrastructure - h/t KPBS

Dallas Sacrifices DART Majority Control in Bid to Keep Suburbs in Transit System - h/t The Dallas Morning News

Pennsylvania Housing Action Plan Calls for $1B Fund, Expanded Renter Protections, Homebuyer Assistance - h/t The Philadelphia Inquirer

Upstate New York Towns Build on State ‘Good Cause Eviction’ Law With Added Protections - h/t Shelterforce Magazine

Study: LA’s Homelessness Program Displaced 5 People for Every One it Helped - h/t Smart Cities Dive

Philadelphia Bus Lane Enforcement Cameras Issued Over 112,000 Citations in First 7 Months - h/t Wired

Waymo’s DC Rollout Stuck in ‘Regulatory Limbo’ - h/t Wired

Judge Delays Restoration of Gateway Tunnel Funding - h/t The New York Times

EPA Guts Emissions Regulations - h/t CNBC

Reclaiming Transportation as a Place of Resistance

Bad Bunny's Iconic Electrical Pole Moment Highlights Puerto Rico’s Devastating Power Outages - h/t Mother Jones

This Colorado Ski Town Saves 75% of its Full-time Housing for Local Workers - h/t High Country News

Interactive, 3D Chicago Zoning Map Lets You Visualize Potential Development - h/t Chicago Cityscape

Massachusetts Zoning Reform Sparks ADU Surge - h/t The Eagle-Tribune

India’s Women-only ‘Pink Parks:’ Safe Refuge or Segregated Enclaves? - h/t Next City

BART Service Cuts, Station Closures Could ‘Set Back the System 50 Years’ - h/t Bay City News Service

Judge Blocks HUD Changes to Key Homelessness Grant Program - h/t Shelterforce Magazine

Transit Scheduling 101: Developing A Runtime

NYC Puts 250 Most Distressed Apartment Buildings on Enhanced Oversight List - h/t NYC.gov

San José’s Buses Run 20% Faster Thanks to AI - h/t Smart Cities Dive

Rebuilding After Fire, Altadena is Designing Public Spaces With Healing and Community in Mind - h/t Los Angeles Times

Why is Public Sanitation so Hard? - h/t The Hustle

Judge Unfreezes NYC-to-NJ Gateway Tunnel Funds - h/t CNBC

New DOT Beautification Council Will Guide the Aesthetics of Transportation Infrastructure - h/t Fast Company

Paradise Lost, Paradise Found: Planning for People Rather Than Cars in Hawai'i

Milan’s Olympic Athletes’ Village is Designed for Reuse - h/t Bloomberg CityLab

Study: Bus Lanes Boost Speeds for Both Buses and Cars - h/t State Smart Transportation Initiative

Amsterdam is First World Capital to Ban Ads for Fossil Fuels on Public Infrastructure - h/t Voz

LA County Adopts First Heat Action Plan - h/t LAist

Kansas City Adopts Milestone Data Center Zoning Rules - h/t Smart Cities Dive

Republicans are Pushing to Make the American Community Survey Voluntary. History Shows That’s a Death Sentence for Data.

See the First Complete Map of NYC Walking Traffic - h/t MIT News

Battle Over $15 Billion in Data Centers Erupts in Rural Southern California County - h/t SFGate

LA Proposal Would Forcibly Remove Unhoused People Near Olympic Venues - h/t LAist

Philadelphia Kicks off $2 Billion Plan to Create 30,000 Housing Units - h/t WHYY

January Must-Reads: Top 10 Articles From Last Month

Trump DOT Wants to Ban Free Buses - h/t Politico

House Bill Would Incentivize Housing Near Transit - h/t Smart Cities Dive