‘Amtrak Joe’ Wants Electric Bullet Trains for California
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California's electrified, high-speed train project gets closer to reality with billions in federal dollars on the way
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It’s “Transit Christmas” for These Bus and Train Projects in Obama’s Budget
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In addition to the broad strokes of transportation policy outlined by the White House yesterday, the Obama administration also put out a much more specific proposal: the list of transit expansion projects recommended for funding in fiscal year 2016. Jeff Wood of The Overhead Wire and Talking Headways fame called it “Transit Christmas.” Though the […]
Talking Headways Podcast: California Über Alles
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Welcome to our all-California, all-the-time episode of the Talking Headways podcast. We start with a statewide debate over whether $60,000+ Teslas should qualify for tax breaks — or whether any electric vehicles should get tax breaks. Then on to the conversation about how California’s cap-and-trade dollars should be spent. One proposal, from the State Senate leader, […]
Talking Headways Podcast: How Does This Podcast Make You Feel?
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This week, Jeff Wood and I get indignant about Miami-Dade County’s misuse of transit funds for roads, and we speculate about why — with the current success of pedestrian projects like Times Square — old-style pedestrian malls are still going belly-up. And then we peek behind the curtain at an exciting new frontier for urban […]
Fresno City Council Slams the Brakes on BRT
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Sprawl and big money prevailed over progress last night in Fresno. The City Council dealt a major blow to local plans for smart planning and bus rapid transit, but stopped short of killing the project completely. About $50 million in federal and state grants have been secured to build a bus rapid transit system and […]
Fresno BRT Threatened By Last-Minute Smear Campaign
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The city of Fresno, California, is a sprawling place, not known for having a strong transit system. But it’s been making big strides. Last year, this city of 500,000 passed a “general plan” that called for 45 percent of new development to be “infill,” or built in already developed areas. The plan relies on beefing […]