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California Transportation Commission Relents, Adds Complete Streets Requirements to Funding Program Guidelines

The State Highway Operations and Protection Program (SHOPP), the state's largest highway funding program, makes some moves to include S.B. 960 requirements

December 11, 2024

Caltrans Breaks Ground on Vallejo ‘Diverging Diamond’ Deathtrap

Are engineers at the state transportation agency intentionally trying to kill cyclists, are they incompetent, or both?

December 4, 2024

How Caltrans Measures Induced Travel: Comments Open Through Friday

Two key documents that address the ways Caltrans measures and accounts for new travel induced by their projects are being finalized this week.

November 20, 2024

Eyes on the Street: 57/60 Freeway Confluence Construction in Progress

New off-ramps have begun to sprout out of the dirt, and widening surface streets are going through the growing pains of construction closures

November 7, 2024

Metro/Caltrans 105 Freeway ExpressLanes Project Would Expand Freeway, Add Pollution to Already Burdened Communities

Metro and Caltrans are planning to expand the current ten-lane 105 Freeway to twelve lanes, plus adding new auxiliary lanes, widening ramps, and widening streets.

October 31, 2024

California Transportation Commission Is Ignoring Complete Streets Law

CTC is pushing to finish SHOPP guidelines before the Complete Streets law goes into effect.

October 21, 2024

Governor Newsom Signs Complete Streets Bill

Finally! State law will require Caltrans to plan and build a transportation system for everyone who uses California roads.

September 27, 2024

Metro and Caltrans Planning to Widen 405 Freeway through Carson, Meetings this Week

Between Wilmington Avenue and Avalon Boulevard, Metro and Caltrans are looking to add four new freeway lane sections at a construction cost totaling at least $90-120 million

September 19, 2024