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Today's headlines somehow formed themselves into a narrative all on their own. They tell a story about the ineffective ways we deal with growing traffic problems. The solution is here, too, if you read carefully enough: stop driving so much!

    • Report issued on 50 worst traffic bottlenecks in US—no surprises here:
      • One-third of the worst 30 are in So Cal—and have been congested for many years (LA Times)
      • Two of the top 50 are in the Bay Area—and Caltrans' response shows an understanding that widening roads won't fix the problem (ABC7)
    • Here's a little video illustration of what happens when people get stuck in traffic (Vimeo)
    • Another reason to come up with alternatives to driving: declining gas tax revenues are delaying road projects (Lompoc Record)
    • The commute hour in the Bay Area is starting earlier and earlier (SF Chronicle)
    • The California Alliance for Jobs documents bad roads—and, inadvertently, the huge vehicles adding to the problem (Business Wire)
    • But transportation planning in most cities is stuck in the past (Governing)
    • And the fight for transit funding is tough (Urban Land Institute)
    • And even when transit investments happen, they're too few and way too slow: in San Jose, local businesses are losing money because BRT construction is taking so long (San Jose Mercury News)
    • While bike commuting has many many benefits, including economic ones (Triple Pundit)
    • Meanwhile, people say lots of clueless things at public hearings—herein personified by cats (Austin on Your Feet)

More California headlines at Streetsblog LA and Streetsblog SF

From: Bike Commuting: Why the US Is Far Behind Other Nations (http://www.triplepundit.com/2015/11/bike-commuting-u-s-far-behind-nations/)
From: Bike Commuting: Why the US Is Far Behind Other Nations
From: Bike Commuting: Why the US Is Far Behind Other Nations (http://www.triplepundit.com/2015/11/bike-commuting-u-s-far-behind-nations/)

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