Bills Still Alive: Parking Reform, Corporate Climate Accountability
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The meat grinder of the Appropriations process spits out a few wins
Recent Streetsblog CALIFORNIA posts about Scott Wiener
“One Bike Lane Could Destroy Our Venue”
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Bottom of the Hill, Potrero Hill music venue, is fighting safe bike infrastructure
Opinion: Slow Transportation Should Be a Human Right
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American culture, and particularly American transportation culture, is profoundly rooted in the idea that traveling fast is best — because if we don't, that culture insists, we won't be able to make or spend money efficiently enough to retain our position as a global economic superpower.
NY City Is Slowly Rolling Out Tech to Stop Gov’t Workers from Speeding
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The new technology, known as intelligent speed assistance, can adjust to the local speed limit.
Today’s Headlines
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Fake climate group was a cover for GOP operatives out to prevent federal action (Heated) CA transit agencies to receive $236 million to aid transition to zero emission vehicles (Green Car Congress) L.A. has had it with speeders (LA Times) He said it: Was Hyperloop just Elon Musk’s attempt to undermine CA high-speed rail? (Jalopnik) […]
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!
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 […]