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
LADOT Finally Proposes Metering Car Parking on Abbot Kinney
A proposal from the Los Angeles Department of Transportation would price parking in this tony neighborhood to keep some spaces open.
January 9, 2020
LAPD Investigates Bombs Left at Future Bridge Housing Project in Venice
Given the timing and location, it strains credibility to suggest that placing bombs at the bridge housing location was somehow just a coincidence.
January 8, 2020
MTC Wants Your Thoughts on Express Lanes on I-880
Chime in on how to run the new toll lanes, an early try at congestion pricing
December 18, 2019