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Santa Monica’s bike share is ready for the Expo line opening (Global Green) Berkeley develops “Resiliency Strategy” (Berkeleyside) Study looks at why bike share is so much safer than “regular biking” (Vox) People who live in walkable neighborhoods get more exercise (Science Codex) Two reports find that California’s climate change policies will save residents money […]

SF Bay Area transit is fragmented, and that’s not good (Global Transit) Fed transportation secretary Foxx speaks out about the legacy of highway expansion through poor neighborhoods (Washington Post) A look at Greyhound’s new Fresno station (Stop and Move) The future of autonomous vehicles may not be what you’re expecting (Strong Towns) Seventeen states sue […]

Photos: L.A.’s Sixth Street bridge is slowly being taken down (Eastsider LA) Cities hope Gold Line extension will bring growth (LA Times) Fix California’s transit funding (LA Daily News) Stanislaus County seeks transportation sales tax measure (Oakdale Leader) Sacramento hires fare checkers to discourage fare jumpers (Sacramento Bee) Transit = freedom (Cleveland.com) How parking requirements […]

L.A. Metro to get another top transit leader: McMillan moves back home from the FTA (Washington Post) California looking for ways to connect transit, communities (Planetizen) The California transportation projects whose funding is threatened (San Jose Mercury News) Caltrans seeks input on statewide, long-range transportation plan (TI News Daily) It’s a mess, but we need […]

Your city may have a complete streets policy. Your mayor may say all the right things about making streets work for walking, biking, and transit. But if the inner workings of government — city budgets, agency protocols — aren’t set up to enable big street design breakthroughs, all you’ll get are scattershot improvements. Writing for Network blog Broken Sidewalk, Chris […]

Metro has five rail lines under construction today, with new Gold and Expo Lines set to open this year. Metro’s recent rail infrastructure expansion was fueled by countywide sales taxes. On top of existing Prop A and Prop C sales taxes, in 2008 voters approved the roughly $40 billion Measure R. Forty percent of Measure R goes to […]