Check out Urban Omnibus’ Alicia Rouault interview of our founder Mark Gorton about his ideas  on streets, people, transportation, life and the urban environment: Questioning the Car: A Walk with Mark Gorton  

What if you could create a sketch design of your street, with new bike lanes, pocket parks and more? This summer, planner and software developer Andy Likuski joined OpenPlans on a fellowship to work on his Rescape software, a sketch tool for street designs. Rescape adds tools to Google Sketchup that makes it easier to do neighborhood Read more…

The MTA recently posted its call for a bus CTO–a person responsible for “transforming our customer communications and service management systems via a non-proprietary approach using open standard interfaces, open data, and (when applicable), open source software. The position aims to build off recent progress, including switching to an open data policy and the development Read more…

Rich Barone, Director of Transportation Programs at Regional Plan Association, stopped by OpenPlans to talk about his work at RPA and the future of the region’s infrastructure. RPA recently published Upgrading to World Class: The Future of the Regions Airports”.  The report looks to ways for growth and improved service at the region’s airports – JFK, Read more…

A few more of the links that we’ve been passing around and chewing over this week – If Republicans got their way and public space was privatized…  Timeshare Backyard is the terrifying model for the future of privatized open space.  Bought to you by the Participation Agency, a project only the Ron Swansons of the world could love. Playing SimCity Read more…

Civic Works’ Frank Hebbert and Francisca Rojas of the Transparency Policy Project propose a panel discussion for SXSW 2012 called  “Communities of Transparency: Open Data in Action“. Many open government initiatives have been supply-side efforts that post data that is too obscure, too complex, or too out of date to be of any real value to Read more…