Editorial: Mayor Garcetti, Time to Get Serious About the Climate Crisis
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Ten ways that Mayor Garcetti can show Angelenos that he is taking the climate crisis seriously
Call to Action: For a Better Market Street
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Tuesday is the big vote at SFMTA to get private cars off of San Francisco's main thoroughfare. Advocates want all hands on deck.
A Fare-r Deal for Riders
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Transit can raise ridership and better service while avoiding regressive fare hikes, experts say.
Hearing the Disability Community In Vision Zero
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New York DOT's chief accessibility specialist on the challenges and successes of inclusion.
Today’s Headlines
|- Transit agencies explore rider-friendly fare policies (Transit Center)
- A map of U.S. auto emissions (New York Times)
- More on reports about not reaching climate emissions goals (Utility Dive)
including LongBeachize‘s take - Driver kills woman, and cop blames dead pedestrian even though “we all know that perhaps people go… a little faster at night than they should” (San Luis Obispo.com)
- While fires burn in L.A. (LA Times), some in NorCal will be without power for days (The Guardian) and no one is happy about it (LA Times)
- Governor rips into PG&E for faulty planning, bad decisions (S.F. Chronicle)
- Black absence in green spaces (The Ecologist)
- Nonprofits work to solve Atlanta’s structural inequities (Atlanta)
- Zero-emission potato chips? (Bakery and Snacks)
More California headlines at Streetsblog LA and Streetsblog SF
Six Months in, Metro/Via Mobility on Demand Pilot is an Expensive Flop
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With free rides and $1.75 million Metro subsidy the pilot is serves about a third of the ridership a low-performing bus route. Per ride cost is well over $20.
Talking Headways Podcast: Transit-Oriented Development in Seattle
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Let's hear how Sound Transit does it.
Today’s Headlines
|- The case for Complete Streets (The Dirt)
- Inequality is slowing cities to a crawl (Atlantic)
- Stanford project works to shift commute habits (Palo Alto Online)
- New leadership needed if San Francisco wants to see trains (SF Examiner)
- Richmond vs. Chevron (The Guardian)
- Climate emissions in California are mostly from cars (Grist)
- But we can avoid talking about what that means if we focus on wildfire emissions (Phys.org)
- Air Resources Board says federal EPA is to blame for the backlog it wants to punish CA for (Bloomberg)
- Local media and leaders add fuel to the confusion about Highway 99, 46 funding instead of explaining what actually happened (Fox, Sun)
- Trade rules emerge as a climate weapon in Europe (Phys.org)
More California headlines at Streetsblog LA and Streetsblog SF
Keep Pasadena Moving Survey Full of Tired Nimby Biases
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NIMBYs want to know about "my problems with public transportation" and whether I blame "more traffic" on "increased housing development." Groan.
It’s Time for an Uber Tax
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Support the "San Francisco, California, Proposition D, Ride-Share Business Tax to Fund Muni, Pedestrian, and Bicycle Services and Infrastructure" measure.
Car-Free Busway is Frankly a Big Success
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"The street looks better, it's nice," one customer at Joe's Pizza said. "It's ridiculous, I don't know any New Yorker who would take a cab just to get a slice of pizza."
Today’s Headlines
|- Different takes on climate emissions report:
- Californians need to drive less (CALmatters, Desert Sun)
- Or get rid of their SUVs (KQED)
- Or maybe just stop fires? (LA Times)
- But some still say electrification is the answer (ACEEE)
- How Smart Growth can help reduce driving (Planetizen)
- Hmmm, people are starting to notice that restricting other traffic can speed up transit (Fast Company)
- In Amsterdam and in the U.S., people have had to demand traffic safety via protests (CityLab)
- San Francisco built a park on a building (NY Times)
- New Muni buses don’t need the overhead wire (SF Chronicle)
- In Cupertino, a new on-demand shuttle launches (TechCrunch)
- Lots of confusion about funding to widen Highway 99:
- “It’s a slap in the face” (SJV Sun)
- Did the governor’s executive order take away gas tax funding for it? (Your Central Valley)
- No. But there is still a lot of outrage (ABC30)
- And confusion (Fresno Bee)
- Newsom signs statewide rent cap into law (Pasadena Star News)
More California headlines at Streetsblog LA and Streetsblog SF