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Metro Announces It Will No Longer Widen Freeways, Doubles Down on Freeway “Modernization”

By Joe Linton | Apr 1, 2022 | No Comments

This morning, April 1 (wink), Metro leaders announced that the agency will no longer be spending hundreds of millions of dollars every year to widen highways throughout L.A. County

Councilmember Kevin de León Announces Support for Eagle Rock Bus Transit Plan

By Joe Linton | Apr 1, 2022 | No Comments

Kevin de León endorsed Metro's "single lane" Bus Rapid Transit alternative "F1" which is largely based on the community-led design proposal called the Beautiful Boulevard

SPUR Talk: Streamlining S.F.’s Bike, Ped, & Transit Projects

By Roger Rudick | Apr 1, 2022 | No Comments

"Let's save lives instead of doing studies"

America’s Best Bus Stops: Small-City Heroes

By Kea Wilson | Apr 1, 2022 | No Comments

Here are two small-city stops that stole voters' hearts in round one. Now, they compete against each other.

Today’s Headlines

By Melanie Curry | Apr 1, 2022 | No Comments

Don’t be fooled: climate change is no joke (IPCC)
LA has the solutions for reducing traffic – it just has to use them (Zócalo Public Square)
Van Ness BRT opens in San Francisco, and ABC7 finds plenty to complain about
CA bill would mandate “seamless transit” in Bay Area (Planetizen)
- Why that’s needed (Transit Center)
Testing of trainsets on new Redlands tracks to begin this week (Redlands Community News)
Stockton launches e-bike and e-car share (ABC10)
Every city’s bikeway network should be as dense as its carway network (Forbes)
Guerrilla crosswalks in LA, because the city isn’t doing it (NPR)
CARB opens ZEV truck and bus incentives; $272 million requested within 24 hours (Green Car Congress)
- These giant Ford trucks and vans are eligible for the vouchers (Ford Authority)
25 current CA bills on clean energy, climate (LA Times)
Acting Governor Kounalakis signs eviction protection bill (Office of Governor)
- It extends some existing protections (AP)
- …but undercuts cities with stronger protections (Berkeleyside)

More California headlines at Streetsblog LA and Streetsblog SF

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The California Bicycle Summit Is Sold Out – Go Virtual

By Melanie Curry | Mar 31, 2022 | No Comments

But you can live-stream one of the most informative and inspiring bike events in California, April 6-9.

Commentary: Newspapers Must Filter Oil Propaganda

By Roger Rudick | Mar 31, 2022 | No Comments

Reason will just find a new excuse, no matter how tenuous, to be against it and anything else that gives people fast, reliable options for getting around that don't require buying and burning gas.

Talking Headways Podcast: ‘Ctrl Alt Delete’ for Transportation

By Jeff Wood | Mar 31, 2022 | No Comments

We talk to Kevin Krizek of the University of Colorado, and David King, of Arizona State University about access, justice, and why their new book is perfect for changing the conversation around transportation.

Today’s Headlines

By Melanie Curry | Mar 31, 2022 | No Comments

Climate change still needs attention (IPCC)
Oil industry wants to “help” CA meet its climate goals (Capital & Main)
The communities most affected by oil drilling have no say in decisions about it – and they should (CalMatters)
Available now: $400 million in incentives for clean trucks and buses (CARB)
Emeryville Mayor John Bauters leads the Bay Area towards independence from cars (Mass Transit)
BART rents out part of an empty parking lot for revenue, display of ADUs (BART)
Waymo will operate fully driverless taxis in San Francisco (The Verge)
There’s city law, and then there’s the reality of AirBnB listings (LA Times)
On Cesar Chavez Day, farmworkers ask Newsom why he won’t meet with them (Fresno Bee)