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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
Themes from Streetsblog California’s Ten Years
Part 1: The LOS, VMT, CEQA, OPR alphabet soup
September 16, 2024
Roundup: Grants; Climate Research; New Community Resilience Program
Opportunities to weigh in on climate and community priorities, and money to support Clean Air Day events
July 15, 2022
Op-Ed: REAP 2.0 Grants Should Fund Housing That Helps Meet Climate Goals
Transformative investments can create more equitable housing opportunities while reducing carbon emissions. Now is our chance to fund them.
January 28, 2022
Caltrans Releases New Safety Guidance for Land Use Projects Statewide: Consider Bikes and Peds
Webinar explains and discusses new guidance, which calls for greater attention to bicycle and pedestrian access and safety at new developments
January 15, 2021
New Rule on Environmental Impacts of Driving, Long Awaited, Goes Into Effect on Wednesday
And Caltrans will host a webinar tomorrow, open to all, to discuss "Rethinking How We Build So Californians Can Drive Less."
June 30, 2020
California Prepares to Shift Planning Focus from Car Delay to Induced Travel
Starting July 1, the California Environmental Quality Act will require projects in California to account for how many new miles of automobile travel they produce, rather than how much congestion they contribute
April 17, 2020
Caltrans Will Account for New Driving Produced by its Transportation Projects
A "profound change" in how transportation impacts are accounted for is coming, in line with efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and driving and increase biking, walking, and transit trips
November 25, 2019
New Tool Makes it Easy to Estimate Added Travel from New Highway Lanes
Research on California highways shows that adding highway lanes induces more travel; this tool shows how much, on which roads, where.
March 15, 2019
At Last, New Rules Are Final: Car Delay Is (Sometimes) NOT an Environmental Impact
After more than five years of discussion and delay—and long after the construction of the stadium it was attached to—S.B. 743's rules on measuring environmental impacts from transportation have been adopted
January 4, 2019
