Transportation Funding
Basics
Highways to Hell: How One Country is Rethinking Road Investment
The Wales Roads Review – an unprecedented examination of whether investment in over fifty local road schemes should continue – signals high-profile change by the Welsh Government, prompted by the climate emergency.
October 6, 2023
What Is to Become of Southern California’s Coastal Rail Corridor?
Emergency repairs are done, and now there will be more studying of the problems.
August 15, 2023
California’s State Transportation Officials Say We ‘Need to Drive Less’
The draft Carbon Reduction Strategy is being circulated for public comment by August 18.
August 8, 2023
How Can Buses Be Sped Up?
And what do state and regional agencies plan to do about it?
July 28, 2023
CA Wins Federal Grants to Support Transit in “Areas of Persistent Poverty”
These are competitive grants for planning, engineering, or developing transit service improvements in historically disadvantaged communities.
July 24, 2023
Recommendations for Calif. Gas Tax- Funded Programs Announced
California Transportation Commission will consider adoption of staff recommendations for Solutions for Congested Corridors, Trade Corridors Enhancement, and Local Partnership programs at their June meeting.
June 9, 2023
Caltrans D4 Get’s Another “Environmental” Award for Highway Widening
Why actually try to fight global warming and make a more sustainable future when you can just lie about it?
February 22, 2023
Everybody Wants an Electric School Bus
Applicants for the first $500 million from the federal Clean School Bus Program requested almost $4 billion.
February 16, 2023
A Small but Crucial EV Program in the Central Valley Has Disappeared
The Central Valley News Collaborative reports that Cantua Creek had its EV program abruptly canceled during the pandemic, and the cars were "taken away."
February 14, 2023
California Grants Billions for Transit Projects
Cuts proposed to the Transit and Intercity Rail Capital Program by Governor Newsom would affect future funding cycles, if they happen. Meanwhile, $3.68 billion will be awarded in 2023.
February 1, 2023
