We Need More — And Better — E-Bike Incentive Programs Across America
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Nonetheless, e-bike incentives still aren't an easy sell among the groups that are best poised to create them.
Today’s Headlines
| | No Comments- How states could “unlock” hundreds of billions in transit funding (Transit Center)
- Digging into reasons behind the spike in pedestrian deaths (Popular Science)
- CalBike says: Thank you, but biking and walking need more funding
- Sacramento Region plans extensive bike trail network (Sacramento Bee)
- Court ruling prioritizing rail use complicates plan to build North Coast trail (Mercury News)
- Feeling the heat? (IPCC)
- No one gets water in this drought (CalMatters)
- Oh don’t you worry: those leaking oil wells in Bakersfield have been “sealed” (LA Times)
- San Diego’s homeless count is rising (San Diego Union Tribune)
- Hundreds more Oaklanders are living in cars and RVs (Oaklandside)
More California headlines at Streetsblog LA and Streetsblog SF
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Legislative Update: Current Status of Bicycle/Pedestrian Bills
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"Suspense Day" is over and many of the bills Streetsblog is tracking have moved on to a floor vote.
Commentary: State Density Bonus Threatens Progressive Parking Policies
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At $120,000 per space, using luxury parking to subsidize affordable housing undermines planning for compact development centered on green mobility. It’s tantamount to gentrification by parking.
Talking Headways Podcast: A ‘Communities First’ Infrastructure Alliance
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Why this is an important moment for infrastructure equity.
Today’s Headlines
| | No Comments- Today is Bike to Wherever Day in the Bay Area (Bay Link)
- How to get started biking (Wired)
- Berkeley to test out scooter rentals (Berkeleyside)
- Santa Rosa, too! (Local News)
- EV registrations are rising (USA Today)
- Climate change is a problem to deal with (IPCC)
- CA Transportation Commission allocates money to transportation projects (GoldRushCam)
- Florida built roads, destroyed natural habitat, and we’re all going to pay the price (Current Affairs)
- Biden calls off oil and gas leases in Alaska and Gulf of Mexico — but not for the climate (Grist)
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Bill to Prohibit Building Freeways through Sensitive Communities Moves to Assembly Floor
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The bill would prohibit Caltrans from using state resources on any project, or on permitting any project, that does not meet certain criteria measured by the California Healthy Places Index.
Walk Against the Machine – Monterey Park Activists Oppose Traffic Lane Expansion
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A plan to take away parking lanes on Monterey Park’s iconic Garvey Avenue hasn’t been getting very far. Could it be reshaped into a multi-modal project?
New Website Puts Faces to Traffic Violence Numbers
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Mapping the tragedy of San Francisco's streets
An Interstate Across America — For Everyone Besides Drivers — Would Pay for Itself in No Time
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A continuous cross-continental active transportation trail would pay for itself in less than five years in visitor spending alone, a new analysis argues — and it could have a big impact on the car-free transportation landscape in the communities it runs through, too.
Cracking the Code on Fighting Highway Expansion Projects
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"Treme and the 7th Ward, like many neighborhoods across the country, are saddled with an aging, unsafe, polluting piece of highway infrastructure. We have to do something about it."
Today’s Headlines
| | No Comments- San Diego celebrates Bike to Work day today (San Diego Union Tribune)
- How to be a car-free bike-riding fun-haver in Los Angeles (LA Times)
- We’ve come a long way: BART loves bikes
- Active transportation bills to watch in CA this week (CalBike)
- Another CA bill to provide more school buses (KCRA)
- For years, Uber and Lyft subsidized rides to eliminate competition. Now, a reckoning (Slate)
- News organizations need to do a better job reporting car crashes (Slate)
- Uber Eats launches autonomous deliveries in Santa Monica (Motional)
- Even this political body had to admit that climate change is a big problem (IPCC)
- Feds give CA more time to decide whether to keep nuclear reactor in service (Reuters)
- Nuclear energy is not clean energy (CalMatters)
- The paradox of air conditioning (Vox)
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