OCTA Transit Committee Revokes BRT/Streetcar Study for Central Harbor Boulevard
Santa Ana and Garden Grove want to extend the OC Streetcar and improve transit, but Anaheim and Fullerton oppose a streetcar option--and any project that would take away a general-use lane for transit.
June 19, 2018
OCTA Board Approves Budget with No Bus Service Cuts for Coming Year
OCTA plans to improve its transit service--but also to widen roads in the name of "congestion relief."
June 14, 2018
Report: Fragmented Orange County Stymies Nonprofits’ Growth, Political Clout
"Connecting the Dots: A Discussion of the Structural Realities of Policy and Advocacy Efforts in Orange County," offers some solutions for overcoming barriers to nonprofits participating in and influencing policy discussions in the county.
June 7, 2018
Santa Ana’s First Protected Bike Lane! . . . Is the Result of a Street Widening
One good does not cancel out a bad. And in the case of the freshly installed (and almost completed) protected bike lane on Bristol Street in Santa Ana, a lot of bad preceded this hallmark moment.
April 26, 2018
Orange County Transportation Agency Offers a New Training Device for Drivers
Play It Safe! is a throwback video game that reminds drivers about rules on bicycle/pedestrian safety
April 9, 2018
OC Roundup: Board of Supervisors Balk on Homeless Shelters, OCTA to Purchase Streetcar Vehicles
Orange County has been headlining state and national news for the past months--especially last week--because of the way the region is dealing, or not, with its homeless crisis.
March 30, 2018
Annual Program for Girls Shows What it Takes to Be a Transportation Engineer
Here was an opportunity for more than 125 girls who attended the fourth annual Girls Engineering Day in Orange County to practice thinking like an engineer and to work with professional engineers
March 8, 2018
Study: Cap-and-Trade-Funded Projects Overstate Benefits to Disadvantaged Communities
Many regional projects that get funding from cap-and-trade may not provide direct benefits to the disadvantaged communities they claim to be helping.
February 27, 2018
O.C. Draft Transit Master Plan Moves through Committee
Major decisions on Orange County's transit future and key bicycle and pedestrian projects will be decided at Monday's OCTA Board meeting.
February 9, 2018
Car Takes Flight in Santa Ana, Crashes into Second Floor of Dentist Office
Seventeenth Street is one of the wider streets in Santa Ana, with this stretch from curb to curb being more than 102 feet wide--the car flew more than fifty feet to reach that office's second floor.
January 18, 2018
