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- The power outage along the Metro-North rail line between New York City’s Grand Central Terminal and New Haven, now in day seven, has the governor of Connecticut calling on commuters to “consider carpooling” or simply work from home.
- The president of the International Association of Transportation Regulators calls Uber’s accusations of “anti-competitive and collusive” policymaking “just childish and… unprofessional behavior.”
- The District of Columbia Office of Planning is out with its own recommendations for adjusting Washington’s long-standing height cap, and it turns out that city planners are open to the idea of raising the limit on particularly wide downtown streets.
- A former lieutenant colonel in the Australian Army predicts that the future of war is in coastal cities.
- Ride sharing app company Sidecar has lost one of its co-founders.
- Roosevelt 2.0, a co-working space that served as “a model for affordable and sustainable urban renewal” in Tampa’s Ybor City neighborhood, has closed due to lack of funding.
- Amid criticism that the programs were designed to serve tourists, not locals, Montreal’s Auditor General said that he doubted that Montreal and Toronto’s bike share systems were financially viable over the long haul.
- A free-time side project of a handful of Code for America coders was “an open program for any performance artist who wanted to create audience interaction.”
- Chip Conley, a long-time hotelier who is now Airbnb’s head of global hospitality, says that the company will impose “nine minimum standards around what we expect an Airbnb experience to be,” such as clean towels and clean sheets. Conley also reports that the company’s goal is to “become the Amazon or Netflix of travel, in the sense that the more you spend time with us, the more you buy from us, the better we know you and the more we can curate your life.”
- And San Francisco’s Entrepreneur- in-Residence program launches in collaboration with the White House and the private sector.
Nancy Scola is a Washington, DC-based journalist whose work tends to focus on the intersections of technology, politics, and public policy. Shortly after returning from Havana she started as a tech reporter at POLITICO.