Updates on E-Bike Incentive Program: Workshop This Wednesday
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The workshop is an open meeting to discuss policy approaches and next steps for the program, which is expected to commence at the beginning of 2023.
Roundup: Save JFK Again, Another HSR Milestone
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High-speed rail environmental clearances done for Peninsula section
Study Seeks to Get Cops to Write Better Crash Reports
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Researchers polled 45 New Jersey cops for clues about why their press releases were so incomplete and victim-blaming — and suggested better language.
Today’s Headlines
| | No Comments- It shouldn’t be so hard to buy an electric car (LA Times)
- It shouldn’t be so hard to live without a car in LA (LA Times)
- Here’s what happens when a country uses bikes to fight climate emissions – it works (Wired)
- Let’s really talk about speed limiters on cars (Treehugger)
- LA Metro CEO declares: We will build a people-centered transportation system (The Source)
- Opinion: AC Transit prioritizes wealthy commuters over South Berkeley riders (Berkeleyside)
- Podcast: CA high-speed rail is “having a moment” (SF Chronicle)
- Converting idle commercial land to housing is a climate strategy too (CalMatters)
- Housing bills held up by labor union disagreements (CalMatters)
- What makes a healthy city? (Price School)
More California headlines at Streetsblog LA and Streetsblog SF
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L.A. Metro Freeway Expansion Negates Agency’s Greenhouse Gas Reduction Efforts
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Metro transit/bike/walk initiatives reduce GHG emissions by 2.7 million MTCO2e, while Metro highway expansions would increase emissions by 2.6 million to 10.1 million MTCO2e
Sponsored Post: How CA Transit Agencies Can Tap into New Legislation for Automated Bus Enforcement
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A.B. 917 is especially groundbreaking because it also authorizes automated enforcement of bus stop no-parking zones – so an agency doesn’t have to have bus lanes to benefit from this law. Illegally parked vehicles blocking parts of bus stops create safety hazards for riders boarding and exiting the bus, especially for riders with disabilities.
Open Letter to SFMTA: We Missed the Outreach on MLK/Middle Drive
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City decides to allow cars on Middle Drive/MLK bike connector but forgets to promote outreach meetings, equity survey
Talking Headway Podcast: Why Tech Won’t Save Transportation
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Uber may become more like a conventional taxi service, but it has permanently screwed workers.
Today’s Headlines
| | No Comments- Active transportation bills poised to reach the Governor’s desk (CalBike)
- Public transit employees were hit hard by COVID (LA Times, SF Chronicle)
- CAHSRA certifies EIR for northern segment (CAHSRA)
- More on Bay Area universal transit pass (Mercury News)
- That deadly Windsor Hills crash was the tip of an iceberg (LA Times)
- LA Metro looking for public input on active transportation options (The Source)
- Corte Madera wants a multiuse path on new bridge over Highway 101 (Marin Independent Journal)
- Marin County releases study on bike, pedestrian danger hot spots (Marin Independent Journal)
- Visalia gets a HAWK signal (SunGazette)
- Mapping California’s collapsing sea cliffs (LA Times)
- Data: 43 ZEV manufacturers, 2,000 heavy-duty ZEVs in CA (CA Energy Commission)
- Landfill to become a park in Hacienda Heights (LA Times)
- Study shows 20,000 people will be homeless in SF this year (SF Chronicle)
More California headlines at Streetsblog LA and Streetsblog SF
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The Controversy Over How to Regulate Wheelchair Service by Uber and Lyft in California
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Unpacking some of the thorny legal details of this dispute, and a discussion of the outstanding questions that the state needs to resolve to advance WAV ride-hailing accessibility.
Op-ed: Seamless Transit Bill Fails — Yet it Succeeds
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Like many bills before it, the Seamless Transit Transformation Act has pushed forward change - even though it didn’t become law.
The Death of the Muscle Car as We Know It Isn’t Necessarily Good News
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Two of the most notoriously dangerous muscle cars are being retired — but probably just to make room for heavier, bigger, and more dangerous models.