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Opinion: A Planner’s Take on California’s EV News
Even if you could wave a technological magic wand and solve every problem with EVs, a bigger concern is whether this focus on personal electric vehicles will monopolize public resources that would be much better spent in other ways.
August 29, 2022
Vermont Beats California: First State to Offer an E-Bike Rebate
As states across America consider subsidizing the purchase of e-bikes to get people out of cars, Vermont just quietly became the first one to actually do it.
August 29, 2022
Should Public Transit Be Free? Freakonomics Asks the Experts
Public transit is good for the environment, for economic opportunity, for social mobility, for traffic congestion.
August 26, 2022
August 2022 Board Meeting Round-Up: L.A. Metro Raises Bus Driver Starting Salaries
L.A. Metro board gave its starting bus operators a raise, approving the outlines of a collective bargaining agreement that ups the starting driver salary to $23 an hour.
August 26, 2022
Commentary: Don’t Forget About Illegal Parking on Corners
Sidewalk parking is a problem, but keeping the corners clear of scofflaw parkers could be key to lowering the crash rate
August 26, 2022
Opinion: Ending Our Oil Addiction Is a Moral Imperative for Inflation and the Climate
The amount we drive is a matter of public policy, shaped by land use and transportation policies that underinvest in transit and make walking and biking ever more dangerous. We can flip that starting now.
August 26, 2022
CARB Chooses E-Bike Incentive Program Manager
Pedal Ahead, a nonprofit that provides e-bikes to San Diego residents, was chosen to run the statewide incentive program.
August 25, 2022
City Council Declines to Approve Healthy Streets L.A., Pushing It to 2024 Ballot
Many speakers and most councilmembers favored the alternative "Safe Streets" proposal being shepherded by Council President Nury Martinez
August 25, 2022
Marin Cyclists Win a Safer Butterfield Road
Almost 900 Marin households turned in responses to a survey on Butterfield Road--here are the results.
August 25, 2022
Can This Documentary Get Americans to Care About Pedestrian and Cyclist Deaths?
A new documentary aims to tell the dramatic story of America's escalating pedestrian and cyclist death crisis — and, hopefully, inspire non-advocates to get involved in the movement to end the epidemic.
August 25, 2022
