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Metro Celebrates Groundbreaking for Rosecrans/Marquardt Grade Separation

By Joe Linton | Jun 6, 2022 | No Comments

The $156 million Rosecrans/Marquardt Grade Separation Project will benefit both rail passengers and drivers; both will be safer and will experience greater reliability in traveling through the area

The 3 Secret Ingredients to Building Bike Networks Fast

By Kea Wilson | Jun 6, 2022 | No Comments

A handful of cities across America are building out bike lane networks faster than ever before — and the secret ingredient isn't concrete and paint, but strong partnerships and even stronger public messaging, a new analysis argued.

Today’s Headlines

By Melanie Curry | Jun 6, 2022 | No Comments

Denial is powerful, but climate change is real (IPCC)
Bill status update from CalBike
USPS is testing mail delivery via ebike (Electrek)
San Jose transit board opposes bill that would reorganize it (SF Gate)
Antelope Valley Transit electrifies its fleet 18 years ahead of schedule (The Energy Mix)
- …but cuts services in face of a strike (Spectrum, Daily News)
Bill: New homes near transit would not require parking (New Press)
Twilight (?) of the NIMBY (NY Times)
Coastal Commission considers, transit agency opposes new beach access routes across tracks at Del Mar Bluffs (San Diego Union Tribune)

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A flyer by a group opposed to dense housing at BART stations featured this photo illustration, featuring scale-free monster buildings towering over the flattened houses surrounding the station, casting immense shadows... at sunrise? Also, has the earth moved on its axis to make the sun rise from the south?

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Berkeley Approves Zoning for BART Station Housing

By Melanie Curry | Jun 3, 2022 | No Comments

The new TOD zone will allow up to 2,400 units of housing to be built at the two large BART station parking lots within the city limits. Next steps: develop and build the housing.

L.A. Sheriff Villanueva Plans to Expel 5700 Unhoused from Metro System

By Sahra Sulaiman | Jun 3, 2022 | No Comments

Step #1 of the "multi-layered" plan to remove unhoused people from trains and platforms is removing unhoused people from trains and platforms.

L.A. City and Community Land Trust Offer Competing Visions for Caltrans El Sereno Properties

By Damien Newton | Jun 3, 2022 | No Comments

“This is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity that doesn’t exist anywhere in the state of California, let alone the city of Los Angeles,” de León said

Motorists Kill Two Cyclists and a Pedestrian as Carnage Continues in Oakland, S.F.

By Roger Rudick | Jun 3, 2022 | No Comments

Officials in the Bay Area think by using inexpensive plastic and paint (and sometimes gently curving, concrete curbs) they're designing streets to keep everybody safe, motorists included. But what they're really doing is transferring the consequences of reckless driving from the perpetrators to everyone else. These past few weeks we've seen the tragic results.

Study: Cycling is 10x More Important Than Electric Cars For Reaching Net Zero

By Christian Brand | Jun 3, 2022 | No Comments

"Taking into account the carbon generated by making the vehicle, fuelling it and disposing of it, we found that emissions from cycling can be more than 30 times lower for each trip than driving a fossil fuel car, and about ten times lower than driving an electric one."

California’s Gann Limit Hamstrings Needed Transit Investments

By Amy Thomson | Jun 3, 2022 | No Comments

Since January, TransForm has been working with transit riders and advocacy groups across the state to meet with legislators and the governor’s office to express the urgent need for transit operations funding. Operations dollars support transit service, as well as operator salaries and fare reduction programs — the elements of frequent, reliable, and affordable transit. […]

Today’s Headlines

By Melanie Curry | Jun 3, 2022 | No Comments

It’s uncomfortable, but to save humanity, change your lifestyle (IPCC)
CARB’s climate plan is seriously flawed (CalMatters)
Help everyone understand induced demand, or we will just repeat the same mistakes (Transfers Magazine)
Stop requiring parking everywhere (New York Times)
California cities are unwalkable, unbikeable, and dangerous, but they don’t have to be (San Diego Union Tribune)
LA Times recommends ways to get to the Hollywood Bowl without driving
OCTA seeks public input on bus service improvements (OC Breeze)
Valley Link Rail Project can now compete for federal funds (Mass Transit)
CPUC approves driverless taxi service in SF (ABC)
Key roles at USDOT now filled after Senate confirmations (USDOT)
California’s most hazardous railroad crossing – at Santa Fe Springs – to be upgraded (Spectrum News)
Farmworkers harvest our food, but many go hungry (In These Times)

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Air Board Seeks Comments on Climate Scoping Plan; Shoup Urges a Look at Parking

By Melanie Curry | Jun 2, 2022 | No Comments

Enforcing existing parking subsidy law is one simple, overlooked strategy that could help reduce fossil fuel use, says Professor Donald Shoup

Metro and the Future of the 405 Freeway Corridor

By Joe Linton | Jun 2, 2022 | No Comments

Metro pretty much just put a big staple through all 436 little plans and declared it a big Comprehensive Multimodal Corridor plan

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