City to Compromise Safety for Parking on Octavia/Market Death Trap
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SFMTA will cut short a protected bike lane to appease merchants and preserve free private car storage
This Artificial Intelligence Bot is Designing Better Streets Than Some Engineers
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A New York artist is breaking through Americans' willful inability to imagine how their communities could be designed around people instead of automobiles.
Talking Headways Podcast: Inside Phoenix’s Transit Oriented Development Plan
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This week, we’re merely flies on the wall of a one-on-one conversation between Phoenix city planner Elias Valencia and community champion Victor Vidales as they talk about creating the South Central Transit-Oriented Development Community Plan
Missed Climate Targets, Misalignment of Transportation Funding: Why California Needs A.B. 2438
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A.B. 2438 would require transportation funding programs to incorporate urgent climate goals. Its fate is uncertain.
Today’s Headlines
| | No Comments- Climate change is no joke (IPCC)
- For St Louis right now, that means record rainfall (Yale Climate Connections)
- Invisible methane leaks are speeding up climate change (AP)
- Why the Kylie Jenner private jet controversy matters (Heated)
- Pacoima tries out cool pavements (Mercury News)
- The one man holding up even minimal progress on climate policy seems to change his mind (NY Times)
- The fight over sustainable transportation in Santa Cruz (Bay Nature)
- El Cajon school buses are first to power the grid (LA Times)
- SMART reports rising ridership in 2022 (Mass Transit)
- Elon Musk abandons plan to build a tunnel at Ontario airport, and some want to pick up the slack with public funding (LA Times)
- Draft EIR on rejiggered Delta water tunnel project released; Comment deadline Oct 27 (CalMatters)
- Blame bicycles for the highway system – a history (Governing)
More California headlines at Streetsblog LA and Streetsblog SF
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OakDOT Promotes Fred Kelley to Director
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OakDOT hires from within its ranks
Why Cities Are So Bad at Counting Bicyclists — And Why it Matters
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U.S. cities don't know nearly enough about how many people are biking on their roads – and until they harness the power of big data and static counters, they could remain in the dark about how to best support some of the most vulnerable users on the road, a new study argues.
Today’s Headlines
| | No Comments- Climate is changing (IPCC)
- A small boat tracks, collects plastic trash out of the Pacific Ocean (Local News Matters)
- Deep dive: How we’ve built our streets to be deadly (Vox)
- Cities build bike lanes to nowhere (Wall Street Journal)
- A new freeway crossing at the border “will alleviate congestion,” according to its builders (Times of San Diego)
- Olympics could “fuel a transit boom” in LA (LA Times)
- Electrification efforts should focus on trucks, buses (EDF)
- Federal judge rules Uber does not have to provide wheelchair access (Spectrum)
- Draft voter guide is out: there’s a lot on the November ballot (Secretary of State)
- Law professors: Do not blame us – SCOTUS was wrong on EPA ruling (The Regulatory Review)
- Goats are doing their natural fire suppression thing for BART
More California headlines at Streetsblog LA and Streetsblog SF
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How to Overcome Political Hurdles that Block Bike Lanes
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Ninety-minute webinar proposes that building bike lanes is fundamentally about political will - and explains how to build and harness it
Four Years Late, North Spring Street Bike Lanes Installed
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The long-delayed bridge bike lanes are part of a planned 1.8-mile bikeway connection from the Chinatown L Line Station to the L.A. River walk/bike path
Why ‘Automobility’ Is About So Much More Than Automobiles
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Is car culture really just about vehicles, roads, motorists and violent commercials on TV, or is it is a political system as deeply entrenched in cultures around the world? Yes. Yes it is.
Today’s Headlines
| | No Comments- Climate change: still a thing. (IPCC)
- How a “heat officer” can help people (CalMatters)
- Carbon capture is an “emerging technology” – or a ruse (LA Times)
- Feds release funding to improve transit accessibility (NY1)
- New York passes law requiring drivers to know ped, bike safety rules (Times Union)
- New York also might install cameras to enforce bike lane violations (Bloomberg)
- Sometimes you need to test out a bike lane to show how they can improve the street (Smart Cities Dive)
- Why U.S. roads are so dangerous and what to do about it (CNET)
- Looking for lower prices, Californians bring gentrification across the border (NY Times)
- LA lets thousands of housing vouchers sit, while homeless people wait (LA Times)
- Foreclosures rising in Bay Area (Mercury News)
More California headlines at Streetsblog LA and Streetsblog SF
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