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Building for cars has just brought more cars. Caltrans adopting this change in CEQA is a start to fixing that. Image: Biofriend

Caltrans Will Account for New Driving Produced by its Transportation Projects

By Melanie Curry | Nov 25, 2019 | No Comments

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

Years of building for cars has just brought more cars. Caltrans adopting this change in CEQA is a start to fixing that.

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New Tool Makes it Easy to Estimate Added Travel from New Highway Lanes

By Melanie Curry | Mar 15, 2019 | 7 Comments

Research on California highways shows that adding highway lanes induces more travel; this tool shows how much, on which roads, where.

Instead of measuring delay to cars, under new CEQA rules infill projects will estimate the number of vehicle miles traveled they produce. Photo: Melanie Curry/Streetsblog

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At Last, New Rules Are Final: Car Delay Is (Sometimes) NOT an Environmental Impact

By Melanie Curry | Jan 4, 2019 | 5 Comments

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

We're not even sure yet what autonomous vehicles will look like--but it's a good time to start planning for them. Image: Boston Metropolitan Planning Council

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State Releases Guidelines for Autonomous Vehicles

By Melanie Curry | Nov 27, 2018 | 2 Comments

California Governor's Office of Planning and Research wrote a set of principles to guide government agencies thinking about a future full of autonomous vehicles

Sierra Bonita Housing in West Hollywood. Image courtesy of Patrick Tighe Architecture

Legislative Update: Bills Supporting More, Fairer, and Infill Housing

By Melanie Curry | Sep 7, 2018 | 6 Comments

Bills that make changes to the way regions set and enforce housing allocations, that expand exemptions from the California Environmental quality Act, and that affirm fair housing rules.

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California Releases Grim Climate Change Assessment

By Melanie Curry | Aug 28, 2018 | 3 Comments

Average temperatures in California will continue to rise, sea levels will go up, and snowpack will shrink, affecting the availability of water for all uses.

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