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Today’s Headlines

By Melanie Curry | Aug 18, 2022 | No Comments

What the Inflation Reduction Act can do for local climate efforts (Governing)
- What’s in it for bikes (People for Bikes)
One million square feet of L.A. roads are being covered with solar reflective paint (Fast Company)
LA Metro approves an ambassador program for transit safety (California Newswire)
In San Diego, transit ridership increasing (ABC)
Can your commute make you happy? (Grist)
When the American dream of the open road hits traffic, the fantasy feeds speed (New York Times)
Tracking the e-bikes abandoned by Bolt (Electrek)

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Fare Integration Takes One Step Forward, One Step Back

By Roger Rudick | Aug 18, 2022 | No Comments

The hope is that if a regionwide pass increases ridership without causing transit Armageddon, perhaps individual agencies will stop blocking and delaying real transit integration. Then the goals of S.B. 917 can be achieved via MTC--which is supposed to be the coordinating agency for Bay Area transit--without the legislation.

Senator Calls on Feds to Mandate ‘Frontover’ Cameras on Huge Cars — But It Won’t Save Enough Lives

By Kea Wilson | Aug 18, 2022 | No Comments

A Connecticut senator is calling for federal action on megacars that are too big for drivers to see children right in front of them — but not necessarily by making vehicles smaller, which could save lives in other kinds of crashes, too.

To Fix Inflation And Climate Change, Get Americans out of Cars

By Eve Kessler | Aug 18, 2022 | No Comments

Our gas-guzzling rides are tanking our personal finances and municipal budgets as well as dooming the planet.

Today’s Headlines

By Melanie Curry | Aug 17, 2022 | No Comments

Dire effects expected as Mediterranean Sea heats up (AP News)
Drought is pushing power grid to the brink (Vox)
L.A. is spending billions to make climate change and transportation worse (LA Times)
L.A. needs bus-only lanes (CityWatchLA)
Safety changes coming to a freeway interchange in Marin County (MarinBike)
How BART is learning, and teaching, about early earthquake warning systems (BART)
How Oakland is replacing cops with unarmed emergency responders (Oaklandside)
California needs a red-eye train between LA and SF (SF Gate)
More on Bay Area’s universal transit pass pilot (Mass Transit)
What will the climate bill actually do? (Christian Science Monitor)

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On to the Governor’s Desk: S.B. 922 to Expedite Sustainable Transportation Projects

By Melanie Curry | Aug 16, 2022 | No Comments

S.B. 922 would accelerate approval of bike, pedestrian, light rail, and rapid bus projects, if Governor Newsom signs it

Advocates Work with San Leandro, Build Pop-up Protected Lanes

By Roger Rudick | Aug 16, 2022 | No Comments

Bike East Bay helps set up fully functional, if temporary, protected bike lanes in 24 hours.

US DOT Will Double the Nation’s Electric Bus Fleet (But It Will Still Be Tiny)

By Kea Wilson | Aug 16, 2022 | No Comments

Some of the money will go to supercharge the construction of green transit facilities and programs to train workers on new technologies, but federal officials emphasized that the vast majority will go towards the purchase of clean vehicles themselves.

Today’s Headlines

By Melanie Curry | Aug 16, 2022 | No Comments

This country’s biggest financial threat is the cost of climate change (Fast Company)
The surprising oil tax included in the federal climate, er, Inflation Reduction Act (Planetizen)
- It’s a climate bill, but don’t call it one (Bloomberg)
- It relies heavily on incentives (Inside Climate News)
Infrared video shows widespread gas leaks in Los Angeles (Capital and Main)
Reevaluating the laws that prevent safe and inclusive cycling (NACTO)
CA DMV may finally force Tesla to stop calling its cars “fully self-driving” (Mercury News)
MTC launches pilot to test universal transit pass for Bay Area (Yahoo!)
Oakland plans an e-bike library (Smart Cities Dive)
Sure, build housing, but give us transit, says Mira Mesa (ABC)
More on head of NHTSA moving back to California Air Resources Board (CNBC, Detroit News)
Denver drops two freeway expansions in favor of climate-friendly transportation (CPR)