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Mitigation Banks: How Benefits from Upcoming CEQA Change Could Be Captured, Shared, Amplified

By Melanie Curry | Oct 5, 2018 | No Comments

A new report takes a look at a pioneering new way to handle mitigation under the California Environmental Quality Act that has huge potential benefits for communities far beyond a particular development.

car with crumpled front end leaning into broken utility pole

How Big Data Can Help Prevent Deaths By Speeding

By Angie Schmitt | May 9, 2018 | No Comments

What if you could reliably pinpoint street segments all over the country where speeding traffic poses a constant threat to life and limb?

Study: Cyclists Don’t Break Traffic Laws Any More Than Drivers Do

By Angie Schmitt | Jan 4, 2018 | No Comments

New data defies some of the common stereotypes about what puts cyclists in danger.

A young man walks past a church that was recently converted into a weed shop on Broadway in South L.A. Sahra Sulaiman/Streetsblog L.A.

The Bike/Ped Count and How People Relate to their Streets

By Sahra Sulaiman | Oct 2, 2017 | No Comments

I love doing the bike/ped counts. I move through the communities I cover constantly, but rarely get the chance to stand in one place for two hours and observe how a particular corner functions.

Redlining had its deepest impacts in areas of South L.A., Central L.A., and the Eastside. The book, The Color of Law, by Richard Rothstein, details how redlining was just one of many ways in which policy was used to enforce segregation. Source: HOLC

America Walks “Walking Toward Justice” Webinar: The Color of Law & Residential Segregation

By Sahra Sulaiman | Sep 29, 2017 | No Comments

The important and timely book, The Color of Law, addresses the myth that segregation in our metropolitan areas evolved naturally and therefore cannot be remedied through policy. No: segregation is the product of explicit federal, state, and local policy designed to both insulate whites and give them a leg up in the process.

This bike commuter carries a backpack that measures his exposure to pollution. Photo: CARB

This post is supported by GJEL Accident Attorneys

ARB Measures Pollution Exposure Risk of Drivers, Bicyclists, Transit Riders

By Melanie Curry | Sep 1, 2017 | No Comments

A recent CARB study found that people traveling by car, bus, and bike are exposed, generally, to similar levels of pollution, while the clear winners—those who breathe in the least black carbon, fine particle matter, and ultrafine particulates—are people traveling by electric-powered light rail.

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