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Caltrans Report: Speeding and Aggressive Driving Cause Most Crashes
Caltrans crunched four-year-old collision data from the California Highway Patrol and found that nearly twenty percent of traffic-related fatalities and severe injuries are speed-related.
September 2, 2016
New Transportation Funding Plan: A Hot Mess, With Some Active Transp $
After several weeks of rumors, legislative leaders of the Special Session on Transportation and Infrastructure have released their proposal for a funding plan that shows how much compromise it can take to get an agreement.
August 25, 2016
Assembly Passes Bills to Extend Greenhouse Gas Targets to 2030
Today, the California Assembly passed A.B. 197, the companion bill to the Senate's greenhouse gas reduction target bill, S.B. 32, which it passed yesterday. A.B. 197 will now go to Governor Jerry Brown to sign into law, which he has said he is eager to do. S.B. 32, which extends greenhouse gas reduction targets out until 2030, passed the Senate later in the afternoon and is also headed to the governor's desk.
August 24, 2016
Legislative Update: Climate Change, Cap and Trade, Fare Evasion
GREENHOUSE GAS TARGETS
August 23, 2016
California Senate Proposal for Cap-and-Trade Revenues Focuses on Equity
The Senate released a spending plan for the unallocated portion of cap-and-trade revenues today, in the form of Assembly Bill 1613. The plan, say Senate leaders and advocates, focuses on environmental equity while supporting projects that will reduce greenhouse gases.
August 17, 2016
Why You Should Care About Statewide Transportation Plan Guidelines
Today is the deadline for commenting on California's draft Regional Transportation Plan guidelines.
August 5, 2016
Environmental Justice Committee Seeks Input on Climate Change Plan
California's Global Warming Solutions Act, passed in 2006, opened the door for cap and trade, which among other things collects revenue to be invested in reducing emissions. The bill, A.B. 32, also created an Environmental Justice Advisory Committee to help the state spend those revenues equitably.
July 20, 2016
Bike-Share Can Get State Funding to Reach Low-Income Communities
At its meeting a few weeks ago, the California Air Resources Board (CARB) agreed to include bike-share in its Car Sharing and Mobility Options pilot program. That means that areas that are figuring out how to get bike-share into low income areas now have a new funding option.
July 14, 2016
Caltrans Inches Toward a New Paradigm, Part One: New Ped/Bike Safety Chief
Caltrans has always said that one of its main concerns was the safety of road users, but its focus has been squarely on people in cars, to the detriment of others.
July 7, 2016
Oil Lobby Pushes For Pump Labeling, Calling Cap and Trade “Hidden Tax”
A few days after the largest oil lobbyist in the state told a legislative hearing that cap and trade is “the most cost-effective way to produce greenhouse gas emissions reductions,” the oil industry is trying out a new way to attack the state program.
July 1, 2016