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The Hidden Gas Tax That Doesn’t Exist

By Melanie Curry | Oct 27, 2014 | 25 Comments

You may have seen the ads on Facebook, or on one of the roving billboards being pulled by a gasoline-powered truck. They warned darkly of a coming “hidden tax” on fuel that was so hidden nobody in the media was talking about it. You may have wondered what it meant, even as the ads urged […]

More Workshops on CA Affordable Housing Program

By Melanie Curry | Oct 23, 2014 | No Comments

California’s Strategic Growth Council is holding a second round of workshops on its guidelines for spending cap-and-trade funds on affordable housing and sustainable communities. The draft guidelines [PDF] incorporate input gathered over the summer as well as at several packed workshops held throughout the state in August of this year. The Affordable Housing and Sustainable […]

Four CA Colleges Win 2014 Bicycle Friendly University Awards

By Melanie Curry | Oct 22, 2014 | 1 Comment

Congratulations to several California colleges that won 2014 Bicycle Friendly University (BFU) awards from the League of American Bicyclists. Thirteen California colleges have made the list in the last few years. New this year are the University of California, Santa Cruz, which won a Silver-level award, and Pomona College and Santa Monica College, which both won Bronze. The University of […]

CalBike Looks Back at This Year’s Legislative Efforts–and Ahead to the Next

By Ryan Price | Oct 21, 2014 | 3 Comments

The California Bicycle Coalition–CalBike–supports local bicycle advocacy efforts to build better bike networks. It does this in part through its work on state legislation that promotes bicycling and via its efforts to increase the amount of funding available for building better bike infrastructure. We liked their end-of-session legislative wrap-up, focusing on bikes–an important part of […]

New CA Database Shows How Much Parking Costs and How Little It’s Used

By Melanie Curry | Oct 17, 2014 | 2 Comments

Zoning laws in California usually require new developments to come with a minimum number of parking spaces. Housing, restaurants, stores, movie theaters — everything requires some number of parking spaces, theoretically based on the best available data. Usually that data is whatever is listed in the Institute of Transportation Engineer’s (ITE) Parking Generation Manual. Since that manual […]

Thoughts at a Workshop On Replacing CA’s Gas Tax With a Mileage Fee

By Joe Linton | Oct 9, 2014 | 31 Comments

Earlier this week, I attended a California Sustainable Transportation Funding Workshop, hosted by Caltrans, Southern California Association of Governments (SCAG), the California Transportation Commission (CTC), and the Mileage-Based User Fee Alliance (MBUFA). The half-day program focused on how the state of California could shift from our current gas tax funding stream to one based on […]

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