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ClimatePlan Studies SCAG’s Progress on Climate Change

By Melanie Curry | Jul 18, 2016 | 5 Comments

Can California meet its climate change goals? A.B. 32, which set in motion the state’s current climate change policies including cap and trade, is set to expire in 2020. The legislature and the governor are taking up the question of what’s next. Do we continue down the same path? Adjust our policies? Scrap them entirely […]

U.C. Institute For Transportation Studies Vies For Increased State Funding

By Joe Linton | May 31, 2016 | 1 Comment

California’s 2016 budget may include additional funding for sustainable transportation research, education, and outreach. The California Assembly’s proposed budget includes a $3 million increase for the University of California Institute of Transportation Studies. The funding increase was shepherded through the budget subcommittee by Assemblymember Richard Bloom, a SBCA Streetsie award winner. The budget item will now […]

More Californians Are Commuting by Bike

By Melanie Curry | Mar 8, 2016 | 6 Comments

The Alliance for Biking and Walking just published its 2016 Benchmarking Report, which ranks states and cities on key statistics including the percentage of people commuting by bike. Every biannual report is a little bit different, as states develop their data collection and the Alliance is better able to compare statistics across fields. California’s bike commute mode […]

Californians Are Paying a High Price for Cheap Gas

By Melanie Curry | Feb 23, 2016 | 2 Comments

The Federal Highway Administration recently released figures showing that U.S. driving is way up. In 2015, for the first time in nearly a decade, Americans drove more than the year before. In fact, the 2015 vehicle miles traveled surpassed the previous high from 2007. Christopher Ingraham at the Washington Post’s Wonkblog parses the numbers, and […]

Want to Slow Displacement? Then Build More Housing, Says Legislative Analyst’s Office

By Jason Islas | Feb 11, 2016 | No Comments

What will it take to make sure there’s a future for lower- and middle-income people in California? Anyone who has tried to look for a place to live recently knows that question is much more than an abstract policy discussion. Increasingly, the high cost of housing in California is driving the state’s low- and middle-income […]

Catching Up with the Rapidly Transforming Transportation Landscape

By Melanie Curry | Dec 11, 2015 | No Comments

In the last few years, technological advances have been changing the transportation system in ways unanticipated and unprecedented. Bike-share and car-share offered alternatives heretofore nonexistent. Then, in swept Uber and Lyft and other “Transportation Network Companies,” or TNCs, and mobile apps that could completely change the ways people move around in their communities. The National […]

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