Recent Streetsblog CALIFORNIA posts about Driving

Car Dependency Helped Build the Modern Nursing Home Landscape. During COVID-19, It’s Killing our Seniors.

By Kea Wilson | May 1, 2020 | No Comments

The elderly have the highest risk for dying of the novel coronavirus in the U.S. The car-focused world many of them live in just makes it worse.

Vehicle Safety Standards Don’t Protect Pedestrians

By Kea Wilson | Apr 29, 2020 | No Comments

Federal regulators have failed to consider safety of pedestrians in their vehicle safety standards for far too long— and now the Government Accountability Office is calling them out.

Operation Gridlock Protest Brings Around Sixty Drivers to Downtown L.A.

By Joe Linton | Apr 23, 2020 | No Comments

Drivers were outnumbered by a cops and photographers.

This post is supported by GJEL Accident Attorneys

California Prepares to Shift Planning Focus from Car Delay to Induced Travel

By Melanie Curry | Apr 17, 2020 | No Comments

Starting July 1, the California Environmental Quality Act will require projects in California to account for how many new miles of automobile travel they produce, rather than how much congestion they contribute

Don’t Let U.S. Driving Levels Rebound After COVID-19

By Kea Wilson | Apr 17, 2020 | No Comments

It's happening in China — but it's not inevitable here.

This post is supported by GJEL Accident Attorneys

Real-Time Data Shows Stay-at-Home Orders May Be Saving Lives in More Ways Than One

By Melanie Curry | Apr 9, 2020 | No Comments

"The Governor’s shelter-in-place order may have provided unexpected reductions in injuries and harm from traffic accidents."

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