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Feuer’s Greenhouse Gas Tax Bill Passes Assembly
Yesterday the State Assembly passed Asm. Mike Feuer's A.B. 2558, the controversial piece of legislation that would allow voters to increase fees on drivers whose vehicles produce the greatest amount of pollution, despite unanimous opposition by the Republican caucus.
May 28, 2008
State Avoids Blame As Metro Prepares Service Cuts
The public process is over, and now the cuts can begin.
March 5, 2008
First thought on the Governor’s Budget
During his speech at today's "LA County Transportation Funding Collaborative" Conference on funding, Assemblyman Mike Feuer (D-LA) predicted that "Transportation isn't going to take as big a hit as people think." (Much more on this conference tomorrow morning.) Well, the budget is in, what do people think?
January 10, 2008
State of the State: Here Come Public-Private Partnerships
During his "State of the State" speech yesterday, Governor Schwarzenegger didn't spend too much time on transportation (and none on transportation reform). But what time he did spend shows how he's planning on meeting our funding needs: public private partnerships.
January 9, 2008
Federal Government: CO2 Emissions Growing from Transportation Sector
For as long as the government has been keeping track of such things, the amount of greenhouse gases put into the environment by the transportation sector has grown year by year. Growing at almost the same speed has been the amount of miles people travel in their cars. With CA spending more and more efforts to deal with vehicle emission standards, it is worth noting that one of the easiest ways to reduce Carbon and other Greenhouse emissions is to reduce people's need to drive their cars.
December 5, 2007
Once-ler of the Week
Congratulations to Governor Schwarzenegger for being the first winner of the Once-ler of the week award. So far he’s managed to avoid any blame for Foothill Transit’s fare hike, but the root cause of the hike and the structure of the hike can be traced directly to state policy. At the end of the speaker’s … Continued
November 2, 2007
News Analysis: Can’t We Find a Better Way to Reduce the Pollution Caused by Cars?
For example, maybe we could try to have fewer cars on the road?
October 17, 2007