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405 Freeway in Orange County - photo via Caltrans

Interview: California Freeway Expansion Projects Induce Travel, and Underestimate Impacts of Additional Driving

By Joe Linton | Feb 17, 2021 | No Comments

UC Davis scholars Susan Handy, Jamey Volker, and Amy Lee created a online Induced Travel Calculator tool to project how road expansion projects would increase driving

What’s a Bike Highway? Caltrans Wants Your Thoughts

By Melanie Curry | Feb 8, 2021 | No Comments

San Francisco Bay Area's Caltrans District 4 has some questions for bike riders, and potential riders, about what they think would make a good bike highway.

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Caltrans: “No Active Plans” to Widen 5 Freeway North of the 605. Really?

By Joe Linton | Feb 5, 2021 | No Comments

The OC Register reports that a Caltrans spokesperson said no more widening. The Caltrans spokesperson now says they told the Register about planned widening.

Bike safety and access must be considered in land use developments that are reviewed by Caltrans - but advocates will still need to make sure that truly means safety, not something like this. Photo by Marven Norman

Caltrans Releases New Safety Guidance for Land Use Projects Statewide: Consider Bikes and Peds

By Melanie Curry | Jan 15, 2021 | No Comments

Webinar explains and discusses new guidance, which calls for greater attention to bicycle and pedestrian access and safety at new developments

Still from Divided Highways, showing the glory and destructive nature of our highway mania.

Caltrans Statement on Equity: What Does it Mean?

By Melanie Curry | Dec 23, 2020 | No Comments

Caltrans makes a promise, and communities and advocates will need to hold them accountable to it. It won't be easy.

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Downey Area Freeway Fighters Form The Happy City Coalition

By Joe Linton | Dec 17, 2020 | No Comments

The Happy City Coalition is working to stop expansion of the 605 and 5 Freeways, and to build a more walkable, bikeable, transit-oriented Southeast L.A. County

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