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Applications Open: Customized Training on Pedestrian and Bicycle Safety
CalWalks and UC's SafeTREC are once again offering community groups of all kinds free training in assessing current conditions and identifying ways to improve safety
February 24, 2023
Legislative Hearing on How to Stop Oil Profiteering Shows How Little Anyone Knows
The hearing had everything: government agency reps making the case for Newsom's proposal, experts on economics, government, and litigation, and a range of "stakeholders."
February 23, 2023
Caltrans D4 Gets Another “Environmental” Award for Highway Widening
Why actually try to fight global warming and make a more sustainable future when you can just lie about it?
February 23, 2023
Talking Headways Podcast: Can Everyone be a Landscape Architect? No!
Let's talk about food deserts and transportation access and the American Society of Landscape Architects Climate Action Plan.
February 23, 2023
Three Ways DOTs Can Help the Unhoused — On and Off the Road
A new study finds that departments of transportation can and must do more to protect a particularly vulnerable group: the unhoused people who take shelter on and alongside American roads.
February 23, 2023
East Bay Unity Ride for Safe Streets
Recent coordinated attacks on cyclists brings together multiple bike clubs and advocates for a show of unity and positivity in the East Bay
February 22, 2023
What Happens When You Ask Public Officials to Give Up Driving for a Week
You get a flurry of local news coverage ... but not a lot of participation. No wonder pols all have the "windshield perspective."
February 22, 2023
The Solution to Deadly Lithium-Ion Battery Fires Could be a Trade-In Program
As battery-sparked fires tear through homes and buildings, advocates and experts are calling for a trade-in program that would allow delivery workers to exchange faulty, damaged or second-hand batteries for safe, certified ones — a "battery buy-back" program modeled on successful efforts to reduce guns.
February 22, 2023
New CA Senate Select Committee Formed to Study Bay Area Transit Issues
The stated purpose is to "address the unique challenges and opportunities facing public transportation in the Bay Area as the region emerges from the pandemic."
February 21, 2023
‘One Flat Tire Away From Dropping Out’: Why Transit to Community Colleges Matters
A staggering number of U.S. community college campuses are located miles from the nearest transit stop, a new report finds, and it's keeping critical educational opportunities firmly out of reach for students who can't or don't drive.
February 21, 2023
