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CTC Staff Releases California Active Transportation Program List

By Melanie Curry | Aug 12, 2014 | 1 Comment

The California Transportation Commission has released a list of recommended projects that could get funding from the state’s Active Transportation Program. The ATP is a new statewide grant program that funds bicycle and pedestrian improvements throughout California. The list is expected to be approved by the full CTC at its August 20 meeting. Under the ATP, the […]

California Legislation Watch: Weekly Update

By Melanie Curry | Aug 8, 2014 | No Comments

Here is Streetsblog’s weekly highlight of California legislation related to sustainable transportation. The legislature just came back from its August recess and spent the week catching up on its to-do list. The next few weeks will see a flurry of bills being voted on—and amended—before the session deadline on August 31. LOS gone from CEQA: Big […]

California Bill Would Remove Legal Loophole for Hit-and-Run Drivers

By Melanie Curry | Aug 7, 2014 | 6 Comments

The California Senate is scheduled to vote on a bill next week from Assemblymember Steven Bradford (D-Gardena) that would close a loophole in state law that allows some hit-and-run perpetrators to avoid criminal prosecution. Current law requires any driver involved in a collision that results in injury, death, or property damage to stop and provide contact information […]

California Has Officially Ditched Car-Centric ‘Level of Service’

By Damien Newton and Melanie Curry | Aug 7, 2014 | 49 Comments

Ding, dong…LOS is dead. At least as far as the state of California is concerned. Level of Service (LOS) has been the standard by which the state measures the transportation impacts of major developments and changes to roads. Level of Service is basically a measurement of how many cars can be pushed through an intersection […]

Report: Urban River Parkways a Cure for Many Ills

By Melanie Curry | Aug 6, 2014 | 10 Comments

A new report from UCLA’s Center for Occupational and Environmental Health sets out to make the connection between bikeways and walking paths along urban rivers and the health costs of physical inactivity in our cities. The report, Urban River Parkways: An Essential Tool for Public Health [PDF], concludes that building walking and bike paths, parcourses, and […]

California High Speed Rail to Present L.A.-area Options

By Melanie Curry | Jul 30, 2014 | 1 Comment

The California High Speed Rail Authority will hold a series of public meetings starting next week to discuss proposed alignments for two segments of the project: from Palmdale to Burbank and from Burbank to downtown Los Angeles. Three routes have been proposed for the Palmdale to Burbank section: two of them vary slightly but both would follow […]

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