Recent Streetsblog CALIFORNIA posts about Climate Change

E-Bikes Can Save Money, Fuel, and GHGs – And CA Legislature Needs to Take Them Seriously

By Melanie Curry | May 11, 2021 | No Comments

California is flush with money, but a relatively small program to get people using electric bikes is stuck in the budget process

Old and new French high-speed trains in Paris. France wants people to use emissions-free trains rather than short-haul flights. Image: Wikimedia commons

Support the Bullet Train for Earth Day

By Roger Rudick | Apr 22, 2021 | No Comments

Advocates are gearing up to protect California's high-speed rail project this Earth Day because of its importance in fighting climate-change

A man looking skyward kneels next to a river, wearing waders and holding a clipboard

The Yurok Tribe Is Using California’s Carbon Offset Program to Buy Back Its Land

By Abaki Beck | Apr 21, 2021 | No Comments

With income from sequestering carbon in its forests, the tribe has supported youth programming, housing, road improvement, and businesses development.

405 Freeway in Orange County - photo via Caltrans

Interview: California Freeway Expansion Projects Induce Travel, and Underestimate Impacts of Additional Driving

By Joe Linton | Feb 17, 2021 | No Comments

UC Davis scholars Susan Handy, Jamey Volker, and Amy Lee created a online Induced Travel Calculator tool to project how road expansion projects would increase driving

Planners are still hoping that adding an auxiliary lane to this highway will relieve congestion. Source: Cruz511

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California Transportation Commission: S.B. 1 Projects Approved

By Melanie Curry | Dec 4, 2020 | No Comments

Concerns were raised about continuing to invest in car infrastructure, but project list was approved anyway. Also: S.B. 1 brings economic development, jobs; Active Transportation Program gets some love; Equity Advisory Roundtable is almost full.