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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

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New Rule on Environmental Impacts of Driving, Long Awaited, Goes Into Effect on Wednesday

By Melanie Curry | Jun 30, 2020 | No Comments

And Caltrans will host a webinar tomorrow, open to all, to discuss "Rethinking How We Build So Californians Can Drive Less."

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California Prepares to Shift Planning Focus from Car Delay to Induced Travel

By Melanie Curry | Apr 17, 2020 | No Comments

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

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

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