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Active Transportation Program: Cycle 6 Staff Recommendations Released
High scores, 434 application requesting $3.1 billion. So far, 93 projects recommended, for about $1 billion.
October 21, 2022
Vision Zero Cities: Why Everyone Hates Cyclists: Realistic Group Conflict Theory and the Plight of Cyclists
There is a word that often has the same effect in comment threads on social media as a bucket of chum in a shark tank: cyclist. Why?
October 21, 2022
Local Ballot Measures: Sales Taxes for Transportation Are Tricky
Local sales tax measures are increasingly tapped as a source for highway widenings, and they're getting tricky about it
October 19, 2022
Recap of California Transportation Commission Meeting: Equity, Climate Are Major Topics
Instead of discussions centered on highway expansions and where to get the money for them, the Commission is engaging with climate, environmental, and equity concerns arising out of the state's transportation system.
October 19, 2022
Vision Zero Cities: Road Violence is a Public Health Crisis that Needs Public Health Solutions
The geographic patterns of traffic violence are too alike across U.S. cities
October 18, 2022
Three Reasons People Don’t Bike That Policymakers Should Pay Attention To
Driver aggression is far from the only reason why people don't ride bikes, a new report finds — and if they paid more attention, policymakers could seize the opportunity to systemically address the most frequently ignored "personal" barriers to traveling on two wheels.
October 5, 2022
Emergency Work to Stabilize Cliffs Above SoCal Railroad Tracks Will Take Months
Amtrak, Metrolink, and freight operations from Laguna Niguel to Oceanside are suspended meanwhile. A permanent solution is years away.
October 4, 2022
Last CA Legislative Update: What Bills Were Signed, Vetoed, or Never Got that Far
A final update on the 2021-22 California Legislative Session: Final outcome on bills on bicycle and pedestrian safety, public transit, and climate including a recap of some of the ones that never got to the governor.
October 4, 2022
Newsom Vetoes Bill to Align Transportation Funding with Climate Goals
Assemblymember Laura Friedman's A.B. 2438 would have required California's transportation funding programs to incorporate strategies from the state's Climate Action Plan for Transportation Investment.
September 30, 2022
Caltrans Continues Widening, This Time in South San Francisco
Induced demand? Let's just pretend it isn't real, says Caltrans
September 21, 2022
