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AVs are not solving transportation problems; Bike and pedestrian projects, and more highway lanes; Who would be paying higher tolls to support transit? More

By Melanie Curry

8:46 AM PDT on August 28, 2023

Groundbreaking for Napa Valley Vine Trail. Photo: St Clair, via Bay Cities News

AVs are not solving transportation problems (Transportation for America)
San Rafael advances bicycle pedestrian project on Grand Avenue (Marin Independent Journal)
Hollywood Blvd to get a redesign (Patch)
Vallejo breaks ground on its portion of 47-mile Napa Valley bike and pedestrian trail (Patch)
$3.1 billion for transportation projects in CA (Planetizen)
Highway 37 across top of S.F. Bay gets federal money (Sonoma News)
Caltrans to open a "temporary" lane on I-15 from the border with Nevada; will it "solve congestion"? (LA Times, KTLA)
What transportation in L.A. could be like (LA Times)
Who would really be paying higher tolls to bail out transit? (Mercury News)
The current status of VMT fees throughout the country (Eno Transportation)
The connections between housing costs and houselessness (Pew)
Sacramento area to try again with a sales tax for transportation, housing (Courthouse News)
Here's a county in Maryland that seems to have figured out how to house people (NY Times)

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Melanie Curry @StreetsblogCal

Streetsblog California editor Melanie Curry has been thinking about transportation, and how to improve conditions for bicyclists, ever since commuting to school by bike long before bike lanes were a thing. She was Managing Editor at the East Bay Express, editor of Access Magazine for the University of California Transportation Center, and earned her Masters in City Planning from UC Berkeley.

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