Q&A: How to Keep Rail Project Costs Under Control
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Our ongoing series looks at how California can build mega projects effectively in the new era
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Align California’s Budget Surplus with Key Environmental Plans
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This is a major opportunity to ensure that California's spending is aligned with several key state plans currently created or being created.
Legislature Doesn’t Want to Release Voter-Approved Prop 1A Funds to High Speed Rail… Yet?
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Ongoing, behind-the scenes negotiations between Governor Newsom, the Assembly, and the Senate on the 2021 budget continue this week in a push to meet the budget-signing deadline of June 30.
Legislative Update: A Quick Peek at the Current Status of Some Worthy Bills
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Next Friday, June 4, is the deadline for bills to be voted on by their house of origin.
Asm Patterson Blows Hot Air on “Highway Capacity Increase”
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As California is figuring out how to put the brakes on its habit of expanding highways everywhere, the pushback over long-planned "legacy" projects has begun.
California Won’t Be Getting Speed Enforcement Cameras
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A.B. 550 was killed without discussion
Newsom Proposes $4.2 Billion for Bullet Train
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If adopted, Newsom revise budget could end wrangling to divert funds away from High-Speed Rail electrification
A Tragic Story, Used to Oppose Stop-as-Yield Bill on Safety Grounds, May Not Be True
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A "safety advocate" rewrote the story of her friend's tragic death and has been using it to bolster for her personal "safety" agenda.
Governor Newsom Proposes $500M Bump to Active Transportation
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It's not the $2B requested by the CA Transportation Commission and advocates, and it's not even near what he proposes for litter cleanup, but it would help
San Diego Making “Modest But Real” Gains on Vision Zero Goal
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In 2020, the pandemic resulted in a steep decline in pedestrian and bicycle fatalities and serious injuries in San Diego. Despite the decline in severe injuries and fatalities, harm to bicyclists and pedestrians remained high, with 27 bicycle and pedestrian fatalities and 58 serious injuries.
E-Bikes Can Save Money, Fuel, and GHGs – And CA Legislature Needs to Take Them Seriously
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California is flush with money, but a relatively small program to get people using electric bikes is stuck in the budget process
Bullet Train Haters Self-Satirize
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Opponents partake in some high-speed absurdities