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‘That Time Is Past’: Santa Ana’s Bold Plan to Eliminate Traffic Collisions

By Kristopher Fortin | Oct 26, 2016 | No Comments

The Safe Mobility Santa Ana Plan was released earlier this month with very little fanfare, yet it may be the planning document that will possibly have the biggest impact on the city’s streets for years to come. The plan identifies 42 high-priority projects–37 corridors and five intersections–that would take an estimated $40 million to complete. But […]

Orange County Trains Active Transportation Leaders

By Kristopher Fortin | Jul 13, 2016 | No Comments

Funding transportation projects in California is a complex and arcane process involving many players, including state and federal agencies, regional planning authorities, and local cities and counties. It usually comes with strings attached, needing to fulfill requirements of state or federal legislation or of a local sales tax spending plan. A project can start with […]

“Level of Service” Planning Is Not Dead Yet

By Damien Newton | Apr 17, 2015 | No Comments

This is what happens when transportation planning focuses on moving cars instead of creating spaces for people. At the same time that California is aggressively moving to ditch the Level of Service standard that has forced transportation and planning projects to measure and mitigate their impact on car traffic, some projects evaluated under that car-centric […]

Sheriffs Blame Cyclist Victim in OC Road Rage Bottle-Throwing Incident

By Joe Linton | Jul 9, 2014 | 38 Comments

On May 31, 2014, Bryan Larsen was bicycling on a crowded stretch of Pacific Coast Highway in south Orange County. He began to notice a pattern of harassment by the occupants of a large white 4×4 Ram Truck, with Texas Virginia license plate “TX 65-500.” When passing cyclists, the truck would spew thick black coal-rolling exhaust. […]

Riding for DREAMS: OC to LA DREAM Act Ride

By Kristopher Fortin | Feb 17, 2012 | 6 Comments

Having only trained for three hours in one week’s time, Adrian Gonzalez knew he wasn’t ready for the 50-mile Los Angeles to Orange County DREAM ride. Gonzalez, a deaf studies undergrad at California State University, Northridge and undocumented, wasn’t a consistent bicyclist. Yet while wanting to participate in a DREAM event, he found a deeper meaning […]

Missed in 2011: O.C. Road Agency Brings Toll Project Back from the Dead

By Damien Newton | Jan 3, 2012 | 7 Comments

There was a saying my mentor Janine Bauer used to tell me when I was back fighting wasteful highway projects in New Jersey. “The public process for highway expansion isn’t over until the road is built.” What she meant was that the monied interests in building expensive highway projects won’t stop no matter how often […]

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