Today’s Headlines
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:
- 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
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