Recent Streetsblog LA posts about SCAG

Update for It’s Not Getting Safer Out There

By Damien Newton | Jan 7, 2008 | No Comments

On Friday, a commenter to It’s Not Getting Safer Out There challenged me to do more research to see how those safety stats look when you compare them to VMT, or population growth. It was difficult to get numbers for all of the years, and get them from the same source, so let me just […]

It’s Not Getting Safer Out There

By Damien Newton | Jan 4, 2008 | 3 Comments

With the weather outside being about as bad as it gets here in LA, you can bet that somewhere tonight (or perhaps already) at least one cyclist or pedestrian will be killed by unsafe driving. A look at the stats for bike and pedestrian fatalities in LA and Orange counties show almost no improvement since […]

UPDATE: SCAG Has a Long Way to Go Before Streets Are Safe for Pedestrians

By Damien Newton | Jan 3, 2008 | 2 Comments

Back before my holiday break, I did a post on SCAG’s 2008 "Regional Transportation Plan" and its goals for increasing safety for cyclists and pedestrians. (See: SCAG’s Top Goal for Bike/Ped: Reduce Fatalities by 25%). SCAG listed, as its top goal, to reduce pedestrian fatalities to 25% below those in year 2000. In 2000 there […]

SCAG’s Top Goal for Bike/Ped: Reduce Fatalities by 25%

By Damien Newton | Dec 19, 2007 | No Comments

It isn’t easy to try to analyze a Regional Transportation Plan without a close examination of the project list (which isn’t available yet) but a first read of the Southern California Association of Governments’ RTP shows an agency at least somewhat committed to improving lives for those that don’t take their care everywhere. There will […]

SCAG:Better Isn’t Good Enough

By Damien Newton | Dec 10, 2007 | No Comments

Congratulations Southern California! Our transportation system is no longer considered a failure (at least by the government agency in charge of transportation funding.) A recent report card by Southern California Association of Governments (SCAG) gave Southern California a passing grade (D-) after two years of F’s. True, this grade would disqualify you for the honor […]

FHWA: CA Will See Over Double Truck Traffic in 30 Years

By Damien Newton | Oct 18, 2007 | 2 Comments

In 2005, the Tri-State Transportation Campaign released a report showing that heavy truck traffic in New Jersey would grow by 80% by 2020. The report’s numbers were based on FHWA projections based on figures from 1998. Since 2005, the FHWA has updated their projections, so I’m not reporting projections based on figures from a decade […]