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Bill Would Benefit Workers Who Don’t Use Free Employee Parking
Assemblymember Alex Lee's AB 2206 would fix gaping loopholes in current "parking cash-out" law.
September 19, 2022
Mayor Garcetti Supports Dodgers Gondola, Disses Project Skeptics
This week's Metro committee debate about the Dodgers Stadium gondola pitted outgoing Mayor Eric Garcetti against incoming City Councilmember Eunisses Hernandez
September 19, 2022
Commentary: The Dutch Call Dangerous Designs Evil. They’re Right.
Let's use the right word to describe when planners and politicians build things they know will cause death and dismemberment
September 19, 2022
Opinion: America Should ‘Think Round’ For Safety for Vulnerable Road Users
Congress has not only codified roundabouts into federal law for the first time, and put them at the top of the list of examples of highway safety improvement projects. They've also defined them as providing “for the safety of all road users.”
September 19, 2022
Governor Signs a Raft of Climate Bills
At a press conference in Vallejo today, Governor Gavin Newsom and a large cohort of legislators celebrated the passage - and signing - of a package of some forty bills that touch on clean energy, climate change, electric vehicles and charging infrastructure, solid waste, and environmental justice.
September 16, 2022
SGV Connect: Safe Systems and SGV Cycling
This week's SGV Connect features an interview with Pasadena Department of Transportation Director Laura Cornejo, and Vincent LaRocca of the new bicycling group SGV Cycling.
September 16, 2022
Here’s Why We All Need to Imagine a ‘Week Without Driving’
Disability Rights Washington spreads awareness of the transportation challenges of the differently abled.
September 16, 2022
Pasadena Proposes Street Improvement Projects for Remaining Metro 710 Funding
About half of the Crown City’s proposed projects make good on the Metro Board’s mandate for multimodal. That is, if they survive the selection and scoping process.
September 15, 2022
SFMTA Rolling Back Planned Safety Measures on Franklin
A man was killed crossing Franklin in 2021 in front of Sherman Elementary. And now promises to make the street safe are coming undone thanks to an engineer who didn't get the memo: LOS is not the way to evaluate projects.
September 15, 2022
Mile-High City Halts Two Highway Expansions — And Gives the Money to Transit Instead
Colorado will cancel two planned highway expansions, citing a new climate rule that advocates say should be a model for communities across America.
September 15, 2022
