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Encouraging Seniors to Use Active and Public Transportation
Using - and encouraging the use of - active and multimodal transport can greatly enhance people's lives, especially seniors.
Don’t Believe the Hydrogen Train Hype
Calling hydrogen-powered trains "zero emission" is misleading at best - and even if they were, they lost the race to be "first" a long time ago.
Podcast: ‘Cycling Over 60’ Talks Bike Month with Streetsblog
Streetsblog California Editor Melanie Curry logs on to talk about Bike Month, and about both the “fun and serious” aspects of her work.
Calif. Will Continue to Undermine its Climate Goals by Widening Highways
CTC approved funding to widen I-80, and a bill that would have reformed funding for freight corridors was killed by the Appropriations Committee.
Sudden State Funding Freeze Leaves Calif. Transit Agencies Hanging
Transit agencies were caught off guard by a 60-day funding freeze announced on the day they were expecting the allocations.
California Is Getting Real about Transit Transformation
Meeting California’s ambitious climate goals will require getting people out of cars and on to trains and buses. That shift could require as much as a five-fold to ten-fold increase in transit ridership above pre-COVID levels by 2045.
California Launches New Transportation Equity Tool
The Transportation Equity Index maps out crash rates and creates a new way to map out multimodal access.
Task Force Meets to Address the Future of California Transit
California's Transit Transformation Task Force must address a wide range of issues. Here are three that are crucial, from the perspective of one of the task force members.
Funding for Calif. Rail Projects: An Incomplete Roundup
Various federal, state, and local funding sources are lining up.
Complete Streets Survey Results: Californians Are Scared to Use Caltrans Streets
Complete Streets are as far away now as they were when SB 127 was vetoed by Governor Newsom.