Today’s Headlines
SB 50 Fails, Fails, Again, Again (SFChron, SFGate, USA Today) LAT Editorial: L.A. Lawmakers Need To Solve Housing Crisis More on Car-Free Market Street (CNN) If You Can Do It, So Can We (LAT) Maybe on Hollywood Boulevard? (Biking in L.A., LAist, LAT) Car Mag Chimes in on Better Market Street (Car&Driver) Modesto Plans for Median … Continued
January 31, 2020
Today’s Headlines
Photos of Car-Free Market (SFGate, SFExaminer) Senate Rejects SB50, Transit Housing Bill (SFExaminer, EastBayTimes, LAT, Daily Breeze) But It Still Has a Slim Chance to Make it to Governor’s Desk (SacBee) Info on San Diego Bike Safety Convention Hosted by SD Bike Coalition (Union-Tribune) Santa Monica Approves New E-Scooter Rules (SMDP) 10 Things To Know About … Continued
January 30, 2020
Few Car Buyers Consider Emissions At The Dealership
So, yes, let's disincentivize the purchase of gas guzzlers — but let's also take back the transportation narrative once and for all.
January 29, 2020
Today’s Headlines
Asm Holden Introduces Legislation To Get LA Metro Gold Line To Ontario Saluting Generations of Advocates for Car-Free Market (SFChron) CA Bicyclist Deaths Highest In 25 Years (Biking in L.A.) Lime Can Track If You Are Riding on Sidewalk (Future Car) San Diego Bans Scooters on Boardwalk (NBC San Diego) A Very Important Look at … Continued
January 29, 2020
Today’s Headlines
SFMTA Gearing up for Car Free Market (SFGate) Circulate San Diego’s Policy Director Talks Vision Zero (KUSI) Metro Seeks To Accelerate Green Line Torrance Extension (Daily Breeze) Commentary: San Jose Fails to Preserve Downtown (MercNews) Redlands Considers Ballot Measure to Increase TOD (Redlands Daily Facts) Local Papers Want “Train to Coachella” (Desert Sun) SANDAG Begins … Continued
January 28, 2020
A Bad Year for Traffic Deaths in San Jose, But the City Has a Plan for 2020
The City of San Jose adopted a "Vision Zero" policy in 2015, meaning that the city's decisions on transportation projects and enforcement would be guided by a goal of reducing traffic fatalities to zero. However, since adopting that policy, fatalities have been high, with both 2015 and 2019 tying for the years with the most fatalities in city history. The end of 2019 was particularly brutal, with headlines in the local newspapers blaring, "Timothy Starkey's Death Points to Uptick in Traffic Fatalities," "2019 the deadliest year for San Jose pedestrians in decades," and "Quest to Make San Jose Streets Safer Crashes into Worsening Pedestrian, Cyclist Injury Stats."
January 24, 2020
Today’s Headlines
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January 24, 2020
SGV Connect 56 – New Plans for Arrow Highway, Connect SoCal and Transportation Planning in Pasadena
Kris speaks with Kome Ajise about planning in the SCAG region. Damien talks VMT with Joe Linton.
January 22, 2020