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Memorial for Wilbert Williams Calls on Caltrans to Fix SF’s Freeway Ramps
One year ago yesterday, 62-year-old Wilbert Williams was sleeping in a tent next to a Highway 80 off-ramp at Fifth and Harrison Streets at about 1 a.m. when he was run over and killed by a drunk SUV driver who veered off the road.
June 17, 2015
Audio: Part II of NRDC’s California’s Transportation Transformation
This was originally posted at the Natural Resources Defense Council’s staff blog. Listen to Part I, here.
April 28, 2015
Caltrans Asking for Input on Bikeway Design
Last year's Protected Bikeways Act from Assemblymember Phil Ting (D-San Francisco) created a new officially designated bike lane type, the Class IV bikeway, variously known as a “protected bikeway” “protected bike lane,” “separated bike lane,” or “cycletrack.” The bill also required Caltrans to create and publish design criteria for the new bikeways by January 2016.
April 24, 2015
Caltrans Goals: Triple Biking, Double Walking and Transit by 2020
Caltrans released its new Strategic Management Plan [PDF], and it includes priorities and performance targets that show the department is serious about reforming itself.
April 16, 2015
Listen to NRDC’s New Serial: California’s Transportation Transformation
This was originally posted at the Natural Resources Defense Council's staff blog.
April 16, 2015
Caltrans: Don’t Forget, California’s Highways Were First Built for Bicycles
"Did you know the movement to create a state highway system came not from automobile drivers or manufacturers, but bicyclists?"
April 13, 2015
CA’s Draft Transportation Plan Says Drive Less, Stop Expanding Hwys
The California Transportation Plan 2040 [PDF], currently in draft form, officially recognizes what many have been saying for a long time: the state cannot keep building highways, and its residents cannot keep driving as much as they do now, if California is going to reach its own climate change goals.
April 7, 2015