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Caltrans’ Officially Embraces Complete Streets in All Projects
"All transportation projects funded or overseen by Caltrans will provide comfortable, convenient, and connected complete streets facilities for people walking, biking, and taking transit or passenger rail unless an exception is documented and approved."
December 23, 2021
What California Could Get from the Federal Bipartisan Infrastructure Bill
Lots for highways, but some for other good stuff - details pending.
December 17, 2021
Assemblymember Cristina Garcia Planning Legislation to Stop Freeway Expansion in Underserved Communities
Garcia's bill would prohibit the state from funding or permitting highway projects in areas with high rates of pollution and poverty and where residents have suffered negative health effects from living near freeways.
December 13, 2021
Can’t California Find a Better Way to Get to Vegas?
A 20-mile backup into Nevada most weekends translates to: California needs to widen that highway. That's a habit we need to break.
December 7, 2021
SANDAG’s Draft 2021 Transpo Plan Has a Lot to Like – and Some Questionable Plans for Funding
The Draft Regional Transportation Plan proposes no expansions of highway right-of-way at all, and includes robust transit upgrades and some active transportation projects
November 12, 2021
Feds Pass Downpayment for Next Phase of California High-Speed Rail
The negotiations continue in D.C., but money for additional legs of California's projects should be available soon--if L.A.'s politicians get out of the way
November 8, 2021
L.A. Times’s Latest High-Speed Hypocrisy
Latest article blames high-speed rail for every ill in the Central Valley from rodents to drug addiction
November 3, 2021
California Active Transportation Symposium: Information, Inspiration, Advice
The California Active Transportation Resource Center hosted its second symposium this week "to strengthen our work and make it better"
October 29, 2021
California Needs to Up its Train Game
San Joaquin, Capitol Corridor, Pacific Surfliner--new umbrella group wants to promote California's model of operating trains. But the state should take things further
October 25, 2021
Business Lobbyists Ask Governor to Set Aside Worker Protections, Clean Air Rules
Cargo backup in SoCal ports taken as an excuse to push anti-regulation agenda
October 22, 2021
