Melanie Curry
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Caltrans Releases Annual “Non-motorized” Report to Legislature
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“Active Transportation in California: The Non-Motorized Transportation Facilities Report Fiscal Year 2016-17,” highlights Caltrans' achievements of the past year as the department works towards its fast-approaching goals to increase the share of trips made by walking and bicycling in the state.
Active Transportation Resource Center Offers New Course in Planning and Designing for Bicycles
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This introductory course, open to all, promises to review California’s commitment to support all modes of transportation, with participants learning how to apply bicycle design concepts that "best balance competing needs on a specific route."
Public Weighs in on Proposed CEQA VMT/LOS Changes
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Not many people attended the hearing, but those who spoke up were pretty consistent in their feedback: don't exempt transportation projects from measuring how many vehicle miles they will encourage.
Eyes on the Street: San Diego Gets Ofo Dockless Bike-Share
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Usually ofo charges rides at the rate of $1 per hour, but during the month of March rides in San Diego are free
Update: Last Chance to Comment on Statewide Changes to CEQA
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New rules called for by S.B. 743 will require development projects to estimate the vehicle miles of travel they will produce, instead of the amount of traffic delay they might cause. But as currently proposed, the rules will not apply to transportation projects.
San Jose Becomes Fourth California City to Adopt VMT as Metric for Traffic Impacts
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The South Bay city joins Pasadena, San Francisco, and Oakland in moving away from a focus on vehicle delay and towards induced car trips to measure of environmental impacts of development.
Union City Votes to Divert Sales Tax Funds from Transit, Bike/Ped to New 4-Lane Highway
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Ignoring constituents, Union City's city council voted unanimously to divert $163 million to build a new four-lane, three-mile $320 million highway connector
Two Pedestrian Safety Campaigns That Make Some Sense
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The “Drive Like Your Kids Died Here” and “[Insert Loved One Here]” campaigns drive home a point about safety that is frequently missed in other public service messaging: Drivers need to be more cautious, no matter what a pedestrian may be doing.
Bill Could Make it Easier for Cities to Lower Speed Limits
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While not the whole solution for safety, lowering speed limits is one tool for safer streets--if it can be utilized.
Autonomous Vehicles Are Coming, and California Isn’t Ready
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The basic message was: California better get on it. AVs are coming, like it or not, and they will either bring great things or they will make everything a whole lot worse.
Montclair, California Declares War on Pedestrians
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What's next? Should Montclair outlaw being blind while walking? Being old and slow? Using a wheelchair? Being short? Being young? Wearing hats with ear flaps?
BikeSGV Tests Idea of E-Bike Rebates
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BikeSGV was able to help community members buy 100 electric bikes, which they can use to replace car trips along the busy I-10 corridor.