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California Leaders Say: Trump, Don’t Touch Clean Car Standards!
Press conference reinforces California's intent to maintain its right to regulate emissions from cars
October 26, 2018
How the Accommodations We Make for Cars Impose Huge Costs on Cities
Wide highways, big parking lots, dangerous intersections designed for speed -- there are a lot of downsides to all this car-centric infrastructure, including the way it saps the fiscal health of cities.
November 4, 2016
Some Perspective On How Angelenos Are Driving Less
Last week, Los Angeles City Deputy Mayor, and soon-to-be Santa Monica City Manager, Rick Cole tweeted out a graph showing that Angelenos are driving less than we used to. In 2002, the average city resident drove 11.9 miles each day. By 2013, that daily Vehicle Miles Traveled (VMT) has declined to about 10.8 miles each day. I asked Cole for the source of the graph, and his only response, tweeted, was that it's from an "L.A. City Planning Report." Which report is not clear.
June 23, 2015