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Bill Would Eliminate Problematic Minimum Parking Requirements
Among the unintended consequences of minimum parking requirements are: more driving, more traffic, more delays for everyone including transit, longer distances between destinations, more fuel use and emissions, more difficulty and danger for people who are not in cars, and much higher housing costs.
April 6, 2021
VIDEO: How the MUTCD Cuts Off Food Access For Pedestrians
Because of the strict adherence to the MUTCD we are denying some of the most economically challenged areas of our country safe access to food and recreation. Here's how.
April 1, 2021
Advocates to Feds: We Need a New Traffic-Control Manual
A coalition of leading transportation professionals is pushing for an overhaul of the manual that sets many of the most dangerous design guidelines for our car-focused roads — and rejecting a piecemeal public comment process that they say will only put a band-aids over the gaping wounds in our unsafe national transportation standards.
March 24, 2021
City of Berkeley Is 2nd CA City to Move Towards Eliminating Single-Family Zoning
The legacy of exclusionary zoning is that it deprived certain communities the luxury of stability and wealth accumulation, which has left them more vulnerable to displacement as their neighborhoods become more attractive and accessible to wealthier outsiders.
February 24, 2021
Koreatown Neighborhood Council Proposes Pedestrianizing Sixth Street
The seven block half-mile-long project would bring needed open space to the most park-poor neighborhood in the city of Los Angeles
February 2, 2021
Why the History of Racism in Transportation Enforcement and Planning Still Matters Today
Mobility justice advocates discussed how the past must inform efforts to address present-day transportation inequities.
December 16, 2020
Ojai Readies a Protected Bike Lane Demonstration on a State Highway
"Quick-build" methods, while still new, are seeing a lot of interest in California and elsewhere.
November 13, 2020
124-Unit Project at 4242 S. Crenshaw Approved by City Planning
The largely market-rate project is one of over half a dozen that were recently completed or are in the works along Crenshaw between Exposition and 61st.
November 11, 2020
Advocates Hit Back Over ‘Bummer Market Street’ Plan
The city wants to remove key safety features and transit improvements after ten years of outreach, planning and development; advocates say "no way!"
October 30, 2020
Four Ways Cities Can Repeal the Legacy of Robert Moses
Robert Moses's approach to transportation planning defined American cities for generations. Now, it's time to dismantle that dangerous and racist legacy.
October 20, 2020
