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Would adding safety elements to this street, at the same time as ongoing repair, really cost $4.5m per mile, Caltrans?

Complete Streets Bill Threatened by Tardy, Unspecified, Absurd Cost Estimates

By Melanie Curry | Aug 16, 2019 | 15 Comments

Department of Finance analysis says safe streets for all are too expensive. Also that they're already being made safer (do you feel safer?). So, which is it? Both can't be true.

Whoop-De-Doo Paint Added to Oakland Hellscape

By Roger Rudick | Aug 15, 2019 | No Comments

Streetsblog receives a matrix of responses to its critique of the 23rd and 29th Avenue over-crossings in Oakland

California GHG emission trends. Image: CARB emissions inventory

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California GHG Inventory Shows Slight Downward Trend. Mostly.

By Melanie Curry | Aug 12, 2019 | 4 Comments

Except not in passenger vehicles. Or refineries. And decreases in other sectors are not dramatic

Image from UCLA Institute of Transportation Studies report on transit ridership.

CTC Transportation Forum: Resiliency and Transit

By Melanie Curry | Jul 31, 2019 | 2 Comments

The climate crisis is messing with transportation planning and engineering, and transit agencies are learning to adopt electric vehicles while ridership falls

Why California Needs a Complete Streets Bill: Part 2

By Melanie Curry | Jul 3, 2019 | No Comments

S.B. 127 requires investing in safety for road users that are outside of cars when making improvements for vehicle traffic, and calls for an equitable approach for those investments.

CalWalks produced several Complete Streets fact sheets to explain the importance of S.B. 127

Why California Needs a Complete Streets Bill: Part 1

By Melanie Curry | Jul 2, 2019 | 2 Comments

Caltrans already has some Complete Streets policies in place, but it doesn't follow them. That's one reason.

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