Transportation Funding
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Metro Detroit’s Highway Fixation Explains Why Our Infrastructure Is Broken
Only 20 percent of the region's highways are in good condition. And yet the regional transportation agency is planning $4 billion in highway widenings.
March 14, 2018
Union City Votes to Divert Sales Tax Funds from Transit, Bike/Ped to New 4-Lane Highway
Ignoring constituents, Union City's city council voted unanimously to divert $163 million to build a new four-lane, three-mile $320 million highway connector
March 2, 2018
The Environmentalist Blind Spot on Transportation
Cheering for a few more electric cars while highway sprawl continues unabated is not going to solve the climate crisis.
February 23, 2018
America’s Stunted National Debate About Infrastructure
Supporting "infrastructure spending" in all its vagueness is not good enough. We need to talk about what we want to build.
February 20, 2018
L.A. Metro Board to Vote on $6 Billion 710 Freeway Widening
It is difficult to believe that, in the 21st Century, Caltrans and Metro are still seeking to spend billions widening a highway in order "to improve air quality, mobility, and quality of life."
February 14, 2018
Trump’s Infrastructure Plan Is Just Another Con
The White House outline does nothing to reform a half-century of highway-centric federal policy that has left America choking on traffic.
February 13, 2018
Legislative Analyst Office Recommends Changes to Gov. Brown’s Proposed Transportation Budget
The LAO recommends focusing highway money on maintenance, not major upgrades, because of economic reasons. But there are other reasons to stop investing in highway capacity projects.
February 9, 2018
L.A. City Council and Media Are Getting the Bicyclist Lawsuit Stories Wrong
The L.A. Times, KCET, and L.A. City Councilmember Mitch Englander are wrong in their characterization of recent bike lane lawsuits.
February 7, 2018
Legislative Roundup: “Officially Dead” and Dying Bills on Biking, Equity, Safety
Dead are bills on allowing bikes to yield at stop signs, a pilot program to study speed enforcement cameras, and equity requirements for transportation funding.
February 2, 2018
Governor Brown’s Proposed Budget Includes First New Gas Tax Funds
Transform's Joshua Stark says the proposed budget would invest more in public transportation, walking, and biking than any previous state budget.
January 12, 2018
