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Assemblymember Laura Friedman addresses a joint hearing on micromobility regulations. Image: screengrab from CA Assembly

Two New Transportation Leaders in California Legislature

By Melanie Curry | Dec 14, 2020 | No Comments

Assembly Speaker Rendon surprises observers by replacing Jim Frazier with Laura Friedman; Senate President Atkins appoints Lena Gonzalez to chair left empty by departure of Jim Beall.

California Air Resources Board chair nominee Liane Randolph. Image: CPUC

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Governor Newsom Appoints New Chair to Air Resources Board

By Melanie Curry | Dec 9, 2020 | No Comments

His choice is current CPUC commissioner Liane Randolph.

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A Quick Look at the Biden-Harris Clean Energy Plan, and its California Connections

By Melanie Curry | Nov 12, 2020 | No Comments

Policy recommendations advise replicating some of California's best programs, but time is precious.

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Bike to Whereever Day: A Pivot from BTWD, Celebrating Some Progress

By Melanie Curry | Sep 25, 2020 | No Comments

Events like these are a fabulous way of both celebrating the hard-fought changes we have seen and of reminding everyone why better bike facilities are important and necessary.

How quick-build projects can help plan and immediately implement safer streets. Image from People For Bikes https://peopleforbikes.org/blog/new-report-a-nine-step-recipe-for-fast-flexible-changes-to-city-streets/

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Active Transportation Program Quick-Build Project Recommendations Released

By Melanie Curry | Sep 16, 2020 | No Comments

Eight projects recommended; CTC to decide on final list in October

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High Speed Rail: Accommodating Freight and Passengers on the L.A.-to-Anaheim Route

By Melanie Curry | Aug 25, 2020 | No Comments

Thirty-day comment period open on building new freight facilities to accommodate HSR construction. Also, Burbank-to-LA EIR comment period ending soon

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Actions to Take Today Help Transit Survive the Pandemic

By Melanie Curry | Aug 7, 2020 | No Comments

Call or email your Congressional representative; add your organization to a letter asking for help; sign a petition to keep transit operators safe

Image from Safe Routes National Partnership

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Active Transportation Program Seeks Evaluators for Next Funding Round

By Melanie Curry | Jul 2, 2020 | No Comments

Interested parties should put their name in the hat by July 13.

All photos are screenshots from Charles T. Brown's presentation on Equity in Transportation

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California Transportation Commission Passes Complete Streets Funding and Talks About Equity

By Melanie Curry | Jun 25, 2020 | No Comments

It remains to be seen how these discussions will change future decision-making.

A prayer card for a Ride of Silence participant in Richmond. Photo: Melanie Curry/Streetsblog

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This Year’s Ride of Silence Will Be DIY

By Melanie Curry | May 19, 2020 | No Comments

Every third Wednesday of May, in communities all over the globe, people come together to ride in silence to honor and commemorate cyclists who have been killed on the road. The rides are solemn, sedate, and moving, and this year they will not be done in big groups.

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San Diego Study: Transit Remains Essential for Essential Workers

By Melanie Curry | Apr 23, 2020 | No Comments

Circulate San Diego used census data to determine that many of the people still riding transit are going to and from jobs deemed "essential" under stay-at-home rules

A DIY prescription: Taping a rock to a beg button might guarantee an automatic pedestrian phase--but this doesn't always work. Photo from Twitter user Ollie

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Stop Touching Pedestrian “Beg Buttons”

By Melanie Curry | Apr 1, 2020 | No Comments

L.A. is actually disconnecting them in some places where a lot of people are walking. Other Californian cities aren't (yet) thinking about them

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