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Report: How to Prioritize Housing and Right-Size Parking at Transit Stations
TransForm analyzed plans for housing at several urban rail stations, offering ideas about how to best achieve goals on reducing single occupant vehicle trips to transit stations.
June 17, 2021
Not So FAST: Senate Transport Bill Causes Pileup for White House Climate Goals
A Senate proposal to shovel hundreds of billions of dollars into new freeways will wipe out the Biden administration’s goal of halving carbon emissions by 2030.
May 27, 2021
E-Bikes Can Save Money, Fuel, and GHGs – And CA Legislature Needs to Take Them Seriously
California is flush with money, but a relatively small program to get people using electric bikes is stuck in the budget process
May 11, 2021
Support the Bullet Train for Earth Day
Advocates are gearing up to protect California's high-speed rail project this Earth Day because of its importance in fighting climate-change
April 22, 2021
The Yurok Tribe Is Using California’s Carbon Offset Program to Buy Back Its Land
With income from sequestering carbon in its forests, the tribe has supported youth programming, housing, road improvement, and businesses development.
April 21, 2021
Interview: California Freeway Expansion Projects Induce Travel, and Underestimate Impacts of Additional Driving
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
February 17, 2021
California Transportation Commission: S.B. 1 Projects Approved
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.
December 4, 2020
SPUR Talk: Does California Need a Statewide Clean Air Measure?
After all, pollution doesn't always stay in one region
December 4, 2020
Another California Executive Order: Conserve Lands, Align Policies to Fight Climate Change
Advocates applaud the order, but how does it fit with ongoing efforts to widen freeways and drill more oil wells?
October 8, 2020
Study: We Can’t Fix Transportation-Related Climate Emissions With EVs Alone
And a major shift to public transit and active modes is the only realistic answer
October 5, 2020
