LOCAL
• Vancouver hopes to tackle parking problems, privacy concerns related to laneway homes [Vancouver Sun]
CASCADIA
• Trans-poor-tation: Olympia’s $8.4 billion fail [Crosscut]
• Trans-poor-tation 2: Let’s finish what we started [Crosscut]
• Throwing Metro Under the Bus [Sightline Daily]
CANADA
• Changes to Manitoba liquor laws will allow alcohol in spas, hair salons [Globe and Mail]
• Regina looks to use other Canadian cities as inspiration to solve housing crisis [Regina Leader-Post]
• Beer finally coming to Manitoba’s hair salons: NDP pitches law to allow alcohol in spas [National Post]
• Ottawa to work with Montreal on Champlain Bridge: minister [Montreal Gazette]
INTERNATIONAL
• Photographing Tokyo’s Coolest Escalators [The Atlantic Cities]
• U.S. PIRG: The Driving Boom Is Over But the Road-Building Binge Continues [DC Streets Blog]
• Biking in the Motor City: How Detroit, Michigan is Returning to its Roots [Global Site Plans]
• In Poor Margins of Paris, New Recipe for Success Is Local [New York Times]
• As Usual, California Density Goes Its Own Way — Up! [California Planning and Development Report]