Eyes on the Street: Redwood City, NL
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For "Bike to Wherever" day, enjoy a block of Amsterdam right in the middle of the Bay Area
We Need More — And Better — E-Bike Incentive Programs Across America
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Nonetheless, e-bike incentives still aren't an easy sell among the groups that are best poised to create them.
Today’s Headlines
| | No Comments- How states could “unlock” hundreds of billions in transit funding (Transit Center)
- Digging into reasons behind the spike in pedestrian deaths (Popular Science)
- CalBike says: Thank you, but biking and walking need more funding
- Sacramento Region plans extensive bike trail network (Sacramento Bee)
- Court ruling prioritizing rail use complicates plan to build North Coast trail (Mercury News)
- Feeling the heat? (IPCC)
- No one gets water in this drought (CalMatters)
- Oh don’t you worry: those leaking oil wells in Bakersfield have been “sealed” (LA Times)
- San Diego’s homeless count is rising (San Diego Union Tribune)
- Hundreds more Oaklanders are living in cars and RVs (Oaklandside)
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Commentary: State Density Bonus Threatens Progressive Parking Policies
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At $120,000 per space, using luxury parking to subsidize affordable housing undermines planning for compact development centered on green mobility. It’s tantamount to gentrification by parking.
Talking Headways Podcast: A ‘Communities First’ Infrastructure Alliance
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Why this is an important moment for infrastructure equity.
Today’s Headlines
| | No Comments- Today is Bike to Wherever Day in the Bay Area (Bay Link)
- How to get started biking (Wired)
- Berkeley to test out scooter rentals (Berkeleyside)
- Santa Rosa, too! (Local News)
- EV registrations are rising (USA Today)
- Climate change is a problem to deal with (IPCC)
- CA Transportation Commission allocates money to transportation projects (GoldRushCam)
- Florida built roads, destroyed natural habitat, and we’re all going to pay the price (Current Affairs)
- Biden calls off oil and gas leases in Alaska and Gulf of Mexico — but not for the climate (Grist)
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Walk Against the Machine – Monterey Park Activists Oppose Traffic Lane Expansion
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A plan to take away parking lanes on Monterey Park’s iconic Garvey Avenue hasn’t been getting very far. Could it be reshaped into a multi-modal project?
New Website Puts Faces to Traffic Violence Numbers
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Mapping the tragedy of San Francisco's streets
Cracking the Code on Fighting Highway Expansion Projects
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"Treme and the 7th Ward, like many neighborhoods across the country, are saddled with an aging, unsafe, polluting piece of highway infrastructure. We have to do something about it."
Today’s Headlines
| | No Comments- San Diego celebrates Bike to Work day today (San Diego Union Tribune)
- How to be a car-free bike-riding fun-haver in Los Angeles (LA Times)
- We’ve come a long way: BART loves bikes
- Active transportation bills to watch in CA this week (CalBike)
- Another CA bill to provide more school buses (KCRA)
- For years, Uber and Lyft subsidized rides to eliminate competition. Now, a reckoning (Slate)
- News organizations need to do a better job reporting car crashes (Slate)
- Uber Eats launches autonomous deliveries in Santa Monica (Motional)
- Even this political body had to admit that climate change is a big problem (IPCC)
- Feds give CA more time to decide whether to keep nuclear reactor in service (Reuters)
- Nuclear energy is not clean energy (CalMatters)
- The paradox of air conditioning (Vox)
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Metro Committee Expected to Vote to Not Build Lower 710 Freeway Widening Project
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Metro and Caltrans plan to formally reset their 710 Freeway corridor plans by approving the 'No Build' alternative, as the new Locally Preferred Alternative for their 710 Environmental Document, reversing a 2018 approval of a freeway widening alternative.
Today’s Headlines
| | No Comments- Traffic deaths are spiking (AP, NHTSA)
- How to make cities safer for e-bikes (Bloomberg)
- As traffic fatalities rise, Boyle Heights gets crosswalks (Spectrum)
- Broad coalition asks Fresno to put off transportation sales tax measure renewal until investment plan can be improved (Fresno Bee)
- Study: Affordable housing at TODs is the best way to support transit (HUD)
- BART looks back 50 years to its earliest days
- Report: How to overcome barriers preventing low-income people from adopting EVs (Ethan Elkind)
- City of Alameda considers piloting a universal basic income program (Local News Matters)
- Play the “spend the surplus” game (CalMatters)
- CA might eliminate late fees that add hundreds of dollars to traffic fines (Local News Matters)
- Urban wildlife crossings are a thing in California (New Yorker)
- Don’t forget about climate change (IPCC)
- The Netherlands has some ideas for adapting to sea level rise (Independent)
- India used to know how to build to keep out the heat (Time)
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