Guest Commentary: Our Future of Self-Driving Cars
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Self-driving cars won't happen over night, but it's time to plan for them in a way that makes sense.
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Cities and the Autonomous Vehicle Revolution
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We risk a replay of the mistakes made in changing our cities for the automobile age. In adapting to an autonomous future, we must not sideline people, the public realm, and the built environment in favor of the needs of one transportation mode as we did a century ago.
Act Locally – A Call for our State and Local Leaders to Protect Our Air Quality
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Tomorrow, the South Coast Air Quality Management District will vote on a long-term regional clean air plan for the four counties under its jurisdiction. The plan as currently written contains few new mandatory measures to reduce pollution, instead focusing on voluntary measures and an ineffective, easily-gamed market-based pollution control mechanism.
Op-Ed: CA Is Ready to Invest Seriously in Transportation; Let’s Do it Efficiently
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California is in the midst discussions about how to raise money to "fix our roads." Ananth Prasad, senior vice president for HNTB corporation, has some suggestions about how best to spend any revenue raised.
Op-Ed: Time to Enact a Practical Transportation Funding Plan
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In response to our recent story about legislative efforts to find a compromise on transportation funding, Streetsblog received the following post from Art Hadnett, president of HNTB’s West Division. HNTB is a national architecture, engineering, planning, and construction firm. Its first California project was Pasadena’s Arroyo Seco Bridge in 1914, and since then the firm […]
Stop Already with the “Cap-and-Trade Is Dead” Business
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Some members of the mainstream media seem to be enjoying a good rip on California’s climate change policies, especially its cap-and-trade program, heralding its imminent collapse and describing Governor Jerry Brown as desperate and “nervous” about whether he can save it. And some of those media pundits are going a little overboard, like the Los […]