Commentary: Action Items for Reducing Fossil Fuel Use
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What personal choices must we make and what policies should we advocate for to cut consumption of petroleum before it completely wrecks our world?
OPINION: Make Cars Safer for People Outside of Vehicles
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Ford’s Geofenced ‘Speed Limiters’ Might Not Cut Road Deaths as Much as You Think
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The trouble with this "smart" tech, though, is that drivers can easily outsmart it — and that's by the company's and regulators' own design.
Today’s Headlines
| | No Comments- Climate change is here (IPCC)
- Court rules Biden’s “social cost of carbon” is reasonable – but it is still too low (Vox)
- Years after houses were destroyed to build it, Lake Merritt BART station will see new housing (Oaklandside)
- How modernizing payment systems improves the transit experience (Gov Tech)
- Legislators propose their own budget, without payments to car owners (AP, Sacramento Bee)
- Gas prices so high, people are buying bikes! (ABC)
- Millbrae plans housing where high speed rail station would go (San Mateo Daily Journal)
- High-speed ferry begin used on Bay routes (BayLink)
- Measuring the magnetic fields of cities can explain… some things (E&T)
- The poetry of public transit (Commonwealth Magazine)
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Eyes on the Street: West Hollywood’s Pilot Willoughby Neighborhood Greenway
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West Hollywood's pilot Willoughby Neighborhood Greenway is a decent step in a healthy livable direction, but its effectiveness has been undermined by scofflaw drivers
Why It’s So Hard to Visit National Parks Without a Car
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Another National Parks season is upon us — but for people who don't, can't, or simply choose not to drive, many of these natural wonders will remain firmly out of reach.
Will ‘Autonomous’ Buses Force Drivers Out of a Job — Or Make Them More Important Than Ever?
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Automated vehicle technology could improve labor conditions for bus drivers while improving safety and service for transit passengers and city-dwellers alike — but only if regulators act now, a new analysis argues.
Today’s Headlines
| | No Comments- Climate change is here (IPCC)
- New research pins Europe’s strange rainfall patterns on climate change (Bloomberg)
- Making the bicycle inexpensive and easy to manage for everyone (Forbes)
- The ideology of the bicycle (Atlantic)
- Proposal to redesign San Diego’s Park Boulevard to be safe for all brings out resistance (KPBS)
- A step closer to a seamless transit experience (GCN)
- Caltrain electrification project needs more money (Planetizen)
- Germany introduces a cheap pass for local public transportation (which can get a traveler across the country) (ABC)
- Uber and Lyft are jacking up prices… because car travel is expensive (Vice)
- Denser housing at BART stations would be a wise move (Berkeleyside)
- Cities need to do a better job on care and maintenance (The Architect’s Newspaper)
- Cash and therapy for at-risk men can reduce crime (Vox)
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Assembly Leadership Fight Has Implications for High-Speed Rail
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It's hard to imagine how Rivas would be worse than Rendon when it comes to California's rail-modernization plans
Legislating at the Intersection of Transportation and Housing Policy
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A.B. 2097 and A.B. 1778 illustrate that a powerful approach to addressing the overlapping problems of affordable housing and sustainable transportation can be to solve both at once.
Car-Friendly Cities Are Not Age-Friendly Cities
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Automobiles menace the elderly and make it hard to navigate their environment, keeping them from meaningful connections
Today’s Headlines
| | No Comments- Climate change is not waiting (IPCC)
- USDOT grants $46m for California rail projects (Railway Technology)
- SF Muni is in dire financial shape (Mass Transit)
- Whoops! That was an AV, not a bike lane, that blocked a fire truck (but it was only for 25 seconds!!!) (Wired)
- Why are bikes so much fun? Because they’re not cars (NY Times)
- Emeryville Mayor John Bauters cares about more than just bike lanes (Route Fifty)
- Startup to use e-cargo bikes for delivery, not trucks (LA Times, Bloomberg)
- Compton plans TOD development near its Metro station (2UrbanGirls)
- Berkeley’s housing boom (SF Chronicle)
- How much of a difference did banning single-family zoning ban make in Minneapolis? (Governing)
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