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What The Next Infrastructure Bill Would Look Like If Cities Were In Charge
If city and regional leaders were the ones writing next federal infrastructure bill, mass transit would be a top priority and highways would be de-emphasized, a new study suggests.
February 18, 2021
The Reason More Women Drivers Die in Car Crashes
Women drivers are more likely to die in crashes because the male drivers who hit them are more likely to be driving trucks and SUVs, a new study finds.
February 17, 2021
CA Bill Would Ban New Fracking Permits and Phase Out the Practice
It also takes up the unfinished arguments around the state about buffers around active oil wells near homes and schools
February 17, 2021
Interview: California Freeway Expansion Projects Induce Travel, and Underestimate Impacts of Additional Driving
UC Davis scholars Susan Handy, Jamey Volker, and Amy Lee created a online Induced Travel Calculator tool to calculate how road expansion projects would increase driving
February 17, 2021
Commentary: Use Physics, Not Plastic, for Safety
It's time for cities to get rid of "safe hit" posts and start installing steel and concrete to force motorists to follow the law
February 12, 2021
Environmental Justice Members Resign from CA Air Board Task Force on Carbon Offsets
Task force is about to issue a report recommending ways to expand the problematic but profitable offsets program. Advocates wanted to focus on ways to make it work for the climate and environment.
February 12, 2021
How to Electrify the Nation’s School Buses
It will take forever to electrify our transit systems, but yellow school buses could be switched over within the decade, a new report says.
February 11, 2021
Feds Love CA Bullet Train
Plus L.A. Times pens an especially absurd story claiming project will have only one track
February 10, 2021
Hit-and-Runs Against Cyclists Surge During Quarantine
Drivers aren't just killing cyclists on quarantine-emptied roads — they're also leaving them to die there.
February 9, 2021
Memo to Buttigieg: Fix Our National Traffic Control Standards
The feds will finally revise the Manual of Uniform Traffic Control Devices, which sets standards for signs, markings and signals that help road users — and, eventually, autonomous vehicles — safely move through our communities.
February 8, 2021
