Rezoning Proposal for Avocado Heights Riles Residents and Activists
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Much of the equestrian community’s agricultural zoning has been proposed for change to residential zoning. Planners say it’s not meant to push out horse use.
Long Beach Opens New Mark Bixby Walk/Bike Path along Harbor Bridge
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The spectacular path would not have happened without the vociferous, aggressive advocacy of its namesake Mark Bixby
Commentary: Spin Can’t Save Lives
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KPIX runs a report that makes it seem as if SFMTA has succeeded at making streets safer; that's just counterfactual
Talking Headways Podcast: Competing with Car Ownership
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This week we’re joined by the head of Zipcar, Angelo Adams! We talk about how Zipcar gets parking spaces, how they find customers, the benefits of car sharing and how the company’s biggest competitor is car ownership.
Feds Take Baby Step Towards Maybe, Possibly Improving the Car Safety Rating Program
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Europe is so far ahead of us on this.
Electeds, DC Advocates Ride Together For Policy Change
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A recent ride through the nation’s capital brought advocates and politicos together to experience life behind a set of handlebars — and rally support for new policies that could make that experience less deadly.
Opinion: Could You Go a Week Without Driving? (Yes — And Here’s Why You Should)
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If you can drive and can afford a car, you probably don’t understand what it’s like to rely, day in and out, on walking, rolling, transit, or asking or paying for rides. But this is every day for non-drivers.
Today’s Headlines
| | No Comments- National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration tallies the steep health costs of climate change (NRDC)
- Sea level rise is messing with ancient doctrine of public coastal access (LA Times)
- For the first time, US EPA proposes greenhouse gas emissions limits (Lexology)
- New research defends recycling as an effective climate tool (Grist)
- CA’s organics recycling goals are not being met, so commission suggests…. pausing them? (CalMatters)
- Bill to create a Chief Advisor on Bicycling and Active Transportation at Caltrans passes Senate floor (Pasadena Now)
- SF Mayor Breed joins call for state funding to support BART and Muni (SF Chronicle)
- Muni to expand service on some crowded lines for summer (SF Examiner)
- The world is running out of sand to build things (The Week)
- Newsom’s plan to speed up infrastructure (Planetizen)
- Cities are encouraged to apply for technical assistance workshops to help get federal infrastructure grants (League of California Cities)
- A tale of two cities: Oakland’s recovery versus San Francisco’s struggle (SF Chronicle)
- Steal this idea: Bicyclists in Seattle haul food and supplies for food banks (Cascade)
Find more California headlines at Streetsblog LA and Streetsblog SF
Two Action Items: Geary in S.F. and Grand in Alameda
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Advocates, keep your powder dry: new/old battles brewing on Geary and on Grand in Alameda
Live from Denver: Two Streetfilms, Two Great Ideas, One Leading City
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During the NACTO conference in Denver earlier this month, Streetfilms auteur Clarence Eckerson Jr. got to see the next generation in traffic circles — a design with a rotary so big that car drivers have to slow down. Check it out.
Opinion: To Halt Wasteful Highways, America Needs a ‘Road Review’
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n February, the government of Wales announced that it was scrapping all major road-building projects. The move came after a year-long “roads review” in which a government-appointed panel systematically reviewed the nation’s road-building program in light of its climate and environmental goals. To an American steeped in our highway-happy, boondoggle-building transportation policy system, the summary of the roads review reads like something out of a particularly good fantasy novel. But could it happen here, too, if the people lead the way?
Opinion: Feds Must Give Transit the Support (And Flexibility) It Needs Right Now
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Budget shortfalls coupled with inflation and rising transit operating costs, threaten to cause the “transit death spiral.” We must not let that happen.