OPINION: The Real ‘Cash Grab’ Isn’t Congestion Pricing — It’s Car Culture
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It pays to remember who profits as complainants line up on central business district tolling.
Six Arguments Against ‘Speed Limiting’ Technology — And How to Quash Them
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Today on The Brake, we asked mobility researcher David Zipper to give us a breakdown of the most common speed-limiting technologies available today, and to share how he responds to six of the most common concerns about them — from the valid to the downright silly.
Today’s Headlines
| | No Comments- It’s hot (Daily Beast)
- That text alert seemed to help cut power demand and avoid blackouts (Bloomberg)
- Bay Area transit is struggling in the heat (NBC)
- LA Times grades past California climate efforts
- Redlands rail almost ready for riders (Mass Transit)
- That time Harvey Milk said SF should “ban cars” from South of Market (Mass Transit)
- How a dangerous highway became a park (Governing)
- Lessons from Japan on traffic safety (Bloomberg)
- Why CA’s parking reform matters for housing and climate (Governing)
- Podcast: What would it be like if California replaces strip malls with housing? (CalMatters)
- San Jose school land to be sold for single family homes (San Jose Spotlight)
- San Francisco braces for an epic commercial real estate crash (San Francisco Standard)
More California headlines at Streetsblog LA and Streetsblog SF
LAPD Sergeant Fired at Jermaine Petit from Inside Patrol Vehicle
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If the shooting had been committed by anyone else, it would have been labeled a drive-by.
Today’s Headlines
| | No Comments- CA approves new climate measures (NY Times)
- “Demand response” helps avert blackouts – with attention, we can easily conserve energy (Bloomberg)
- Even with energy demand surging (Bloomberg)
- Electric vehicles are adding only a small amount of demand to the grid (Spectrum News)
- Other states consider adopting CA’s ban on sales of new gas cars (Spectrum, PBS)
- CA approves SANDAG regional plan that includes local road user charge (The Coast News)
- Universal basic mobility is fundamental and necessary (CityFi)
- California to offer e-bike incentives (KPBS)
- E-bikes could be a “gateway” to more human-centered planning (Treehugger)
- Skepticism about potential tax break for being car-free (LAist)
- Generation gap over what a car means (NY Times)
- BART celebrates 50 years with swag, discounts, arcades (Mercury News)
- BART needs to work with changing commute schedules (SF Chronicle)
- BART extension to San Jose coming into focus (Planetizen)
- CA police killed nearly 1,000 people in 6 years (SF Chronicle)
- CA could allow vacant strip malls to be redeveloped as housing (Smart Cities Dive)
More California headlines at Streetsblog LA and Streetsblog SF
Legislative Wrap-Up: Bills on Bike and Ped Safety, Climate
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The dust is still settling, and Newsom hasn't signed on the dotted line yet
More Details on Bus and Bike Upgrades Planned for Venice Boulevard
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2.8 miles of new bus lanes and 3.6 miles of newly protected bike lanes are anticipated to be installed starting November 2022
Q&A: Dutch Safety Experts Coming to San Francisco
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Streetsblog talks with Chris Bruntlett of the Dutch Cycling Embassy about street safety and next week's visit to California
Driving Is the New Smoking: Lessons From America’s Public Health Victory Over Tobacco
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Smoking, once a celebrated totem of American culture, is increasingly an ostracized habit of the marginal few. Getting there, though, took deliberate vision, coordinated efforts, and persistent policy trial and error over decades — and those efforts reveal a partial roadmap for breaking our country’s similarly dangerous addiction to cars.
Today’s Headlines
| | No Comments- CA legislature resets the housing status quo (Planetizen)
- And moves to keep CA’s last nuclear plant open (CalMatters, Times of San Diego)
- And passes a law against falsely advertising cars as “self-driving” (LA Times)
- And a tax credit for not having a car (Washington Post)
- And some climate bills (CalMatters)
- Getting from San Francisco to Big Basin via public transit is a journey (Mass Transit)
- CA did NOT just ban gas-powered vehicles, but anyway, here’s some information (Inside Climate News)
- AC Transit serves disadvantaged communities (Berkeleyside)
- The age of “car is king” is over (Guardian)
- SMART is the future (KCRW)
More California headlines at Streetsblog LA and Streetsblog SF
Reimagine Ventura Blvd Is About Expanding Car Parking. Why Tout it as Bike Safety Project?
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Unfortunately, this stretch of Ventura Boulevard is a missed opportunity, a step away from multi-modal solutions. Reimagine Ventura Boulevard lacks imagination.
Talking Headways Podcast: How Zoning Broke American Cities
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How were cities regulated before zoning — and should zoning abolition be the ultimate goal?