What Are Complete Streets? Smart Growth America Raises the Bar
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SGA's recent report, Best Complete Streets Policies 2023, looks for strong and effective policies that lay the groundwork for safer streets for everyone
Recent Streetsblog CALIFORNIA posts about Smart Growth America
Op-ed: Consolidate the Bay Area’s Transit Agencies
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Legislators considering allocating funding are right to be asking for a plan for financial sustainability and ridership growth. It is also reasonable to question whether Bay Area transit, which is delivered by 27 transit independent operators with no requirements for coordination, is optimally structured to deliver the best possible, most efficient service to the public in the near- and long-term.
Is It Time for America to Break Up With the Private Car? An Interview with Lime’s Wayne Ting
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Between 42,000 crash deaths a year and rising tailpipe emissions that are swiftly killing the planet, America's long love affair with the privately-owned car hasn't exactly been a healthy relationship. Now, one micromobility company is sending a message to riders that it's time to break up — even if their cities aren't perfectly ridable yet.
Today’s Headlines
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More on transit’s pleas for funding (Mercury News, SF Gate) Some just blame BART (CalMatters) What a BART failure would look like (ABC7) Great: New York Times Magazine has an issue telling us all about California Including this tale of housing, parking, and protest in Berkeley (New York Times Magazine) Passenger rail service through San […]
State Leaders Rally for Transit Funding in Budget
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With only a few weeks left to finalize a budget, transit agencies warning they may have to make deep service cuts as soon as this summer
Six Takeaways from the L.A. Metro Budget – You’ll Never Believe Number Four!
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Don't just stand there - dive right in to SBLA's Metro FY2023-24 budget listicle!
Today’s Headlines
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LA Metro ponders tolling the freeways (LA Times) Muni could start cutting bus routes (SF Chronicle) US cities are failing women bicyclists (Bloomberg) Inclusive, gender-expansive group rides support all kinds of riders (Los Angeles Public Press) Police departments are illegally sharing license plate data with other states, group charges (SF Chronicle, Sacramento Bee) Berkeley gets […]
Quick Legislative Update: Where Are the Bills Now?
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Here's a super quick and far from comprehensive update on some key street safety bills
Metro Regional Connector Downtown Subway Opens Friday June 16
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The wait will soon be over for LA Metro's Regional Connector, which ties together three Metro lines – the A (Blue) Line, E (Expo) Line and L (Gold) Line.
Rail Problem: House GOP Wants to Undermine Trains Exactly When We Need Them Most
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The future of interstate rail travel is in jeopardy if the White House caves to House Republican spending cuts as part of the ongoing debt ceiling negotiations, advocates say.
Today’s Headlines
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La Sombrita pile-on ignores an important story about women and transit (LA Times) A defense of La Sombrita (Bloomberg) Bay Area leaders push their Assembly rep hard over transit funding (SF Standard) BART rethinks its service schedule (NY Times) Americans don’t walk. Are we lazy or is it too dangerous? (Big Think) “Too complex, not […]