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AQMD Chair William Burke Speaks Against Transit
Should someone with Burke's negativity toward transit really be chairing a body charged with improving Southern California air quality?
December 16, 2019
National Center for Sustainable Transportation Explains New Induced Travel Calculator
Confused about how building highways could end up creating more traffic congestion? This webinar can help
May 1, 2019
Eyes on the Street: At Santa Ana Crossroads, Residents Try Protected Bike Lane Demo
Santa Ana resident Martin Mares remembers when he was 8 years old riding his bike on Hazard Avenue sidewalks to get to soccer practice. Mares, who grew up near the intersection of Euclid and Hazard, never questioned why he chose the sidewalk; he knew only that the street felt unsafe to ride.
October 27, 2017
15,000+ Bicyclists, Pedestrians Come Out to Garden Grove’s 3rd Open Streets Event
More than 15,000 people came out to bike and walk in Garden Grove's Open Streets event on Saturday. The 2.5-mile route stretched from Main Street to West Street and had some streets closed to cars, streets with mixed traffic, and a one-mile pop-up protected bike lane.
April 6, 2017
Act Locally – A Call for our State and Local Leaders to Protect Our Air Quality
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.
February 2, 2017
ClimatePlan Studies SCAG’s Progress on Climate Change
Can California meet its climate change goals? A.B. 32, which set in motion the state's current climate change policies including cap and trade, is set to expire in 2020. The legislature and the governor are taking up the question of what's next. Do we continue down the same path? Adjust our policies? Scrap them entirely and start over?
July 18, 2016