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High-Speed Rail Update: Another Piece Completed
There are more than thirty active construction sites on the HSR project in the Central Valley, including bridges, viaducts, and undercrossings, and close to that number of jobs have been completed.
July 18, 2023
To Win Your Transit and Bike Goals, You Need to Talk To Strangers
Here's how — even for the introverts in the crowd.
July 17, 2023
State-Funded REAP Planning Grants Aim to Support Housing and Less Driving
The grants are referred to as REAP 2.0 because they expand on an existing REAP grant program by looking for ways to integrate housing and climate goals.
July 14, 2023
‘Freeway Exit’ Podcast Tells San Diego’s Freeway Histories of Growth, Displacement, and Division
Learn the forgotten history of our urban freeway network, and how decades after that network was finished, some communities are still working to heal the wounds that freeways left behind.
July 13, 2023
Daylighting, Sidewalk Riding, and Free Youth Transit Pass Bills Pass Committee Votes
Bill to require transportation planning to consider climate also passes; Bicycle Safety Stop bill withdrawn by its author
July 12, 2023
Legislation to Continue to Streamline Affordable Housing Barely Clears Assembly Committee
“We’re going to build housing again in California.”
July 11, 2023
Glendale Officials Rally for Speed Camera Bill
"These [traffic fatalities] are real people," Glendale Mayor Dan Brotman emphasized, "husbands, wives, parents, friends, children, coworkers."
July 10, 2023
Good News in the State Budget: Active Transportation Program Funding Restored
In the end, when Governor Newsom signed the budget, the claw-back of ATP funds was gone.
July 7, 2023
California Needs Leadership on Electric Rail
California leaders cannot continue giving equal weight to a proven technology that will improve rail service (catenary electric trains) and a wasteful experimental technology (hydrogen trains) that could lead to worse service and reliability than the status quo.
July 6, 2023
Gas Taxes Are Going Up; What You Are Getting For Your Money?
Not every project funded by S.B. 1 aligns with California's climate goals, but what drivers are paying at the pump is definitely being spent to improve their travel. News media should adapt their headlines accordingly.
July 5, 2023
