Newsom Appoints Caltrans Head to Lead California State Transportation Agency
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Director Toks Omishakin Moves Up
New Ballot Initiative Underway to Get L.A. to Implement Its Mobility Plan
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Healthy Streets L.A. would require the city to implement its own approved Mobility Plan whenever the city repaves or otherwise works on a street
Caltrain Governance Negotiations Inch Forward
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The Caltrain board inched forward in painstaking negotiations on three-county governance at its meeting on Thursday.
Feds: Megacar Owners Actually Drove More in 2020 than 2019
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The owners of the largest passenger cars on the road actually drove more in 2020 than they did in 2019, according to new data that can also explain why road deaths surged so sharply during the early days of the pandemic.
Today’s Headlines
| | No Comments- Governor Newsom appoints Caltrans Director Omishakin to lead its overseer, CalSTA (Office of Governor)
- More on state bill to help improve active transportation (SF Chronicle)
- Omicron hobbled SF Muni service (SF Chronicle)
- OCTA bus drivers consider strike (Orange County Register)
- How the USPS justifies buying gas-fueled trucks (Vice)
- Why are electric vehicles getting bigger? WHY? (Washington Post)
- Precautionary tale from Philadelphia: long-planned road diet scrapped (Inquirer)
- “Just transition” is not “net zero” (Greenbiz)
- Bay Area to homeowners: create space for homeless residents (Mercury News)
- When private equity is your landlord (ProPublica)
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Bill Would Extend Environmental Exemption for Bike, Walk, Transit Projects
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S.B. 288's temporary CEQA exemption, having proving useful, would be made permanent
Draft Pasadena Pedestrian Plan Public Feedback Period Ends
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The 'Pasadena Walks!' plan identifies 10 high priority corridors, multiple high priority crossings and multiple secondary corridors
Legislation Promises Transit Integration for Bay Area
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Might Bay Area transit finally start to make sense?
Does America Need a ‘Mobility Bill of Rights’?
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And more important: what should be included in it?
Today’s Headlines
| | No Comments- San Diego weighs VMT tax (Planetizen)
- Transit workers and riders are heroes (Patch)
- Invest in transit workers and equity (Transit Center)
- BART halts work by engineering firm while it investigates a conflict of interest (LA Times)
- Government regulation of autonomous vehicles is hamstrung (Vox)
- That needs to change (Washington Post)
- Disneyland’s Monorail changed transportation (SF Gate)
- No. There’s nothing “clean” about nuclear power (San Luis Obispo)
- Bay Area suburbs balk against new state housing laws (Mercury News)
- Court: Including affordable units can exempt developments from local zoning rules (AP)
- Counterprotestors on bicycles block anti-vax truck convoy in Vancouver (Momentum Mag)
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Glendale Blvd Hit-and-Run Crash Highlights Need for Safety Improvements
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If Caltrans is serious about its professed commitment to safety, multi-modal transportation, and complete streets, it should take some kind of immediate action to fix the situation.
Berkeley Rips out Chunk of New Milvia Protected Bike Lanes
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No consultation, no warning... they just ripped out a protective island and curbs