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Eyes on the Street: New Bike/Ped Crossing over Railroad Tracks in Burbank
By Joe Linton |
Though the facility has some utility - and preserves earlier walk/bike access, it's the kind of hellscape that only a freeway traffic engineer can love.
Dutch Lessons for the Bay Area
By Roger Rudick |
If Bay Area planners want to know how to make the region safe and livable, just look across the ocean
Joe Biden Becomes the First Traffic Violence Widower to Hold the U.S. Presidency
By Kea Wilson |
Joe Biden is president — the first one in U.S. history who's lost a child and a spouse to our national traffic violence epidemic.
Today’s Headlines
By Melanie Curry |
Joe Biden inaugurated as U.S. President (AP/Daily News) CA passes 3 million COVID cases; vaccine supplies are low (Mercury News) Local governments ask for pandemic assistance (Press Democrat) Sacramento votes to eliminate all single family zoning within city (Sacramento Bee) BART hopes federal relief funds will help balance its budget, for now (Local News Matters) […]
Metro Proposes $73.2M Loan to Caltrans for Overruns on 5 Freeway Widening through Burbank
By Joe Linton |
Next week, the Metro board Construction Committee will consider throwing good money after bad – on a mismanaged freeway widening project through Burbank.
Four Unanswered Questions about Biden’s Transportation Relief Plan
By Kea Wilson |
Transit advocates are applauding President-elect Biden's COVID-19 relief plan, but wonder whether it will be enough to save the green modes that millions of Americans rely on.