Healthy Streets L.A. Is Qualified for the Ballot. What Happens Next?
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Healthy Streets L.A. paving-mandated implementation would be slow and ineffective - but it's a lot faster than seven years of heel dragging!
Recent Streetsblog CALIFORNIA posts about Jim Beall
CA Gets $120 Million for 8 “Sustainable and Equitable” Infrastructure Projects
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In California, eight projects will receive grants on this go-round, for a total of about $120 million.
Feds Commit Money to Howard Street Improvements
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Significant upgrades will be coming to Howard Street's mostly paint-and-plastic based protected bike lanes in SoMa.
Talking Headways Podcast: Asphalt Art!
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How communities can use paint as an effective and relatively low-cost strategy to activate their streets.
RAISE Grants to Fund Complete Streets in Nearly Every State
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The first recipients of a newly expanded major transportation grant program will deliver significant money for biking, walking and transit — and even some road projects that federal transportation leaders say will help non-drivers, too.
Today’s Headlines
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How the heck did they get a climate bill passed? (AP, E&E) Air pollution and greenhouse gas emissions being measured and mapped at a “hyperlocal” scale (Vice) FHWA’s “Carbon Reduction Program” lets states ignore the reduction piece (Transportation For America) Why aren’t speed governors required on vehicles? (Bloomberg) Paris to become a 100% cycle city […]
Open Letter to the S.F. Board of Supervisors: Fix this Deadly Grate in Golden Gate Park
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There's a bicycle booby trap in the park. The Music Concourse manager refuses to fix it. The City Attorney and the Board of Supervisors must intervene.
Congestion Pricing Update: New York’s Tolls will Have National Implications
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There are seven scenarios in New York's environmental assessment for congestion pricing. How this plays out is crucial to America's effort to rein in traffic and fund transit.
Today’s Headlines
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Newsom urges legislature to speed up climate efforts (CalMatters) Street-level air pollution from traffic linked to higher emergency room costs (EDF) There is still hope for a tax break on e-bikes (The Verge) Money for California from federal climate bill (Mercury News) Oakland plans an e-bike library (Oaklandside) Bicyclists protest LA’s ban on selling bike […]
California’s Laws on Cell Phone Use While Driving Are Not Good Enough
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Washington and Oregon, which have similar distracted driving law on cellphone use, reduced crashes at a higher rate than California
New Bus Lanes and Upgraded Bikeway Coming to Venice Boulevard
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On the Westside, Venice Blvd will see three new miles of bus-only lanes, and upgrades to extend an existing 0.8-mile protected bikeway to just over five miles