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More than a Hundred Miles of California High-Speed Rail are Under Construction
CAHSR is currently the biggest infrastructure project in California, and one of the biggest, if not the biggest in the U.S.
February 6, 2020
More Information on Tamika Butler’s Resignation from CTC
Why is one commissioner being held to such a high standard, when others don't seem to be?
January 24, 2020
Equity and Active Transportation Advocate Tamika Butler Resigns from California Transportation Commission
It looked like there might finally be a commissioner on board who understood and could articulate the challenges of people living in poor and underserved communities. But Butler has resigned.
January 13, 2020
Bay Area Air Quality Board Member Rides a Bike to Meeting. Why Is this Newsworthy?
Why don't more public agency directors and staff, especially those working on climate and air quality issues, use - or encourage - active transportation?
December 18, 2019
CA’s Affordable Housing and Sustainable Communities Program Works
New annual report outlines progress of program to increase affordable housing and reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Other benefits: getting agencies to work together, creating new active transportation infrastructure, preventing displacement
December 10, 2019
California Planners Have Already Been Swapping VMT for LOS
The state's "seismic" shift from measuring congestion to assessing new travel has been a glacial but inexorable change
December 4, 2019
Caltrans Will Account for New Driving Produced by its Transportation Projects
A "profound change" in how transportation impacts are accounted for is coming, in line with efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and driving and increase biking, walking, and transit trips
November 27, 2019
Walk SF Urges Public to Push for Strong Recommendations on Setting Speed Limits
Zero Fatalities Task Force report due soon, but since it has been meeting in closed-door sessions it's anyone's guess what its recommendations will be
November 27, 2019
Bike/Pedestrian Path on the Richmond-San Rafael Bridge Is Finally Open
"Who will ride it?" The several thousand people who showed up to cross the San Francisco Bay on the path's opening day answered that question pretty clearly
November 18, 2019
Invest in What Makes it Easy to Travel by Healthy, Active, Sustainable Modes
Bay Area community organizations and consultants release road map for a future of clean sustainable transportation
October 25, 2019
