Melanie Curry
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City of San Diego Announces Commitment to Its First Vision Zero Improvements
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Fifteen dangerous intersections, identified by safety advocates, will get basic safety treatments
Legislative Update: A Few Bills to Watch
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The second year of the legislature's two-year cycle is moving into action, with deadlines looming in the next few months for bills to pass their committees. There is still a lot of negotiating and amending coming up, but here are a few bills to keep an eye on.
CA Legislature Ponders the Future of High-Speed Rail Program
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Two legislative hearings were prompted by the recent release of the California High Speed Rail Authority's updated business plan, which issued new—higher—estimates of the project's costs and a longer timeline for building it.
Greenhouse Gas Emission Reduction Targets Are “Largely Symbolic,” says ARB
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A year-long effort to set regional GHG targets leaves a gap no one seems to know how to fill
How to Decide, Fairly, Which Transportation Investments Are the Best Ones
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The Greenlining Institute, an Oakland-based nonprofit, released a report today describing a three-step framework that can be used to help communities figure out which transportation investments best serve their needs.
AARP Launches 2018 Community Challenge Grant
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These are grants for projects, including transportation projects, that aim to “help make communities better places to live for all ages.”
Caltrans Releases Annual “Non-motorized” Report to Legislature
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“Active Transportation in California: The Non-Motorized Transportation Facilities Report Fiscal Year 2016-17,” highlights Caltrans' achievements of the past year as the department works towards its fast-approaching goals to increase the share of trips made by walking and bicycling in the state.
Active Transportation Resource Center Offers New Course in Planning and Designing for Bicycles
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This introductory course, open to all, promises to review California’s commitment to support all modes of transportation, with participants learning how to apply bicycle design concepts that "best balance competing needs on a specific route."
Public Weighs in on Proposed CEQA VMT/LOS Changes
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Not many people attended the hearing, but those who spoke up were pretty consistent in their feedback: don't exempt transportation projects from measuring how many vehicle miles they will encourage.
Eyes on the Street: San Diego Gets Ofo Dockless Bike-Share
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Usually ofo charges rides at the rate of $1 per hour, but during the month of March rides in San Diego are free
Update: Last Chance to Comment on Statewide Changes to CEQA
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New rules called for by S.B. 743 will require development projects to estimate the vehicle miles of travel they will produce, instead of the amount of traffic delay they might cause. But as currently proposed, the rules will not apply to transportation projects.
San Jose Becomes Fourth California City to Adopt VMT as Metric for Traffic Impacts
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The South Bay city joins Pasadena, San Francisco, and Oakland in moving away from a focus on vehicle delay and towards induced car trips to measure of environmental impacts of development.