Transportation Funding
Streetsblog California
The Road to Ruin: How Fresno County’s Transportation Future Got Stranded
As other regions build rail lines and public transit with their transportation sales tax; Fresno County is stuck with pothole problems.
August 16, 2024
Report: CA Needs Sustainable Climate Funding, Not a “Climate Commitment” that Isn’t
More than half of the state's "Climate Commitment" of 2022 has been funded, but it has shrunk and been delayed, and its funding source includes money that was already going to the climate fight.
August 1, 2024
Incomplete Streets Part 2: District 12 Ignores Caltrans Policy on Bike and Pedestrian Needs
Caltrans has a policy requiring Complete Streets in its projects, but Caltrans Districts routinely ignore it
July 23, 2024
Newsom Administration Releases Previously Frozen Transit Funding
Long-promised transit recovery funds, for capital projects including zero emission improvements and for operations, begins to be released.
July 8, 2024
Shifting Gears: Towards a New Way of Thinking About Transportation
Dr. Susan Handy investigates the ideas that have shaped the nation's car-oriented transportation to help uncover what needs to change to get to a safer, more sustainable system
June 5, 2024
Legislature Rejects Governor’s Proposed Cuts to Active Transportation, Intercity Rail
A quick review of what the legislature wants in the transportation budget
May 30, 2024
How Bad Is Newsom’s Proposed Cut to the Active Transportation Program? Awful.
It would have zeroed out the entirety of Cycle 7 - but the legislature has rejected the cuts.
May 29, 2024
Four Things I’m Thinking About Transportation in L.A.
Streetsblog's favorite UCLA expert weighs in on Waymo, Cubic, 2028, active transportation funding - and invites you to UCLA Transportation Camp unconference on June 8
May 23, 2024
This City Leader Wants Drivers to Pay $850/Year to Register Their Cars — And Give the Money to Transit
What if driver had a choice between paying for the equivalent of a yearly bus pass just to register a car, or skipping the DMV and taking the actual bus for free?
May 16, 2024
More than 30 Organizations Ask the Governor to Lift Transit Funding Freeze
The letter comes a day before Governor Newsom is scheduled to announce his May Budget Revision
May 9, 2024
