Commentary: The Dutch Call Dangerous Designs Evil. They’re Right.
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Let's use the right word to describe when planners and politicians build things they know will cause death and dismemberment
Opinion: America Should ‘Think Round’ For Safety for Vulnerable Road Users
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Congress has not only codified roundabouts into federal law for the first time, and put them at the top of the list of examples of highway safety improvement projects. They've also defined them as providing “for the safety of all road users.”
Today’s Headlines
| | No Comments- California could choose housing over parking (if Governor Newsom signs the bill) (Slate)
- Why jaywalking laws should be abolished (Traffic Technology Today)
- Newsom signs climate bills (The Hill, Epoch Times)
- New law will accelerate transition to zero emission buses (PR Newswire)
- Highway boondoggles (OC Register prefers to call them “transportation boondoggles”) waste money
- Jurors can now have transit trips to court paid for under new law (SF Gate)
- Transit enthusiasts will attempt to ride all 27 Bay Area transit agencies in one day (SF Chronicle)
- Approvals clear path for major transit-oriented complex near San Bruno BART station (Mercury News)
- High-speed rail program hits another milestone: overcrossing completed in Kings County (RT&S)
- Construction to being on multipurpose path along Highway 101 in Carpinteria (Noozhawk)
- Santa Clara redoing plan for El Camino Real (Patch)
- Former officials, now oil lobbyists, influence California climate policy (Capital & Main)
- Fossil fuel extremism borders on a religion – and it’s blasphemy to point out harms (Heated)
- America has a public bathroom crisis (Futurist Speaker)
- Why are rich people obsessed with urban crime? (Vice)
More California headlines at Streetsblog LA and Streetsblog SF
Governor Signs a Raft of Climate Bills
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Note: GJEL Accident Attorneys regularly sponsors coverage on Streetsblog San Francisco and Streetsblog California. Unless noted in the story, GJEL Accident Attorneys is not consulted for the content or editorial direction of the sponsored content. At a press conference in Vallejo today, Governor Gavin Newsom and a large cohort of legislators celebrated the passage – and signing – of […]
SGV Connect: Safe Systems and SGV Cycling
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This week's SGV Connect features an interview with Pasadena Department of Transportation Director Laura Cornejo, and Vincent LaRocca of the new bicycling group SGV Cycling.
Here’s Why We All Need to Imagine a ‘Week Without Driving’
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Disability Rights Washington spreads awareness of the transportation challenges of the differently abled.
Today’s Headlines
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- Newsom vetoes bill to create statewide student transit pass program (LAist)
- School traffic is the worst – give the kids transit passes (LA Times)
- The push for federal e-bike subsidies is not over (Bicycle Retailer)
- How the railroad strike was averted (LA Times)
- In Japan, drivers who kill go to jail; an American wants an exception (Daily Bulletin)
- Bay Area traffic is back to its prepandemic self (KRON)
- New bills could make housing easier to build (San Luis Obispo)
- CARB proposes no new diesel big rigs sold in CA in 2040 (CalMatters)
- CA gets $150m federal infrastructure grant for Otay Mesa border crossing (Transportation Today)
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Pasadena Proposes Street Improvement Projects for Remaining Metro 710 Funding
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About half of the Crown City’s proposed projects make good on the Metro Board’s mandate for multimodal. That is, if they survive the selection and scoping process.
SFMTA Rolling Back Planned Safety Measures on Franklin
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A man was killed crossing Franklin in 2021 in front of Sherman Elementary. And now promises to make the street safe are coming undone thanks to an engineer who didn't get the memo: LOS is not the way to evaluate projects.
Mile-High City Halts Two Highway Expansions — And Gives the Money to Transit Instead
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Colorado will cancel two planned highway expansions, citing a new climate rule that advocates say should be a model for communities across America.
Talking Headways Podcast: Back in Time!
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We're at 400 episodes. Join us for a fun trip down memory lane!
Today’s Headlines
| | No Comments- Devastating coastal algae bloom is “like a wildfire in the water” (High Country News)
- Particulate matter is a killer, and almost half of it comes from transportation (Treehugger)
- Railroad strike averted (AP)
- Why workers threatened to strike (Mother Jones)
- Switching to electric cars is nowhere near enough (LA Times)
- It took a long time, and commitment, to get the federal climate bill (EDF)
- Driver mows down riders at Bike Party; police blame bike riders (Berkeleyside)
- What should happen to drivers who kill bike riders? (Outside)
- Google maps could do a much better job on biking (Protocol)
- Newsom signs bill stemming from shooting at San Jose transit facility (Spotlight)
- San Diego reforms its neighborhood planning groups to make them more diverse (San Diego Union Tribune)
- Ontario is overrun with giant warehouses (The Guardian)
- Stop calling Charles “the Climate King” (Heated)
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