by Sara Greenwald | Jul 10, 2019 | Blog Item, Uncategorized
The automobile took over because the legal system gave legal force to a mind-set of automobile supremacy. Over the course of several generations lawmakers rewrote the rules of American life to conform to the interests of Big Oil, the auto barons, and the car-loving 1...
by Sara Greenwald | Jun 28, 2019 | Blog Item, Uncategorized
The city was ready to turn 14th Street into a transit corridor. Neighborhood groups sued to halt implementation at the last minute. Danny Pearlstein, a spokesman for the Riders Alliance, an advocacy group, criticized the decision to halt the transit corridor from...
by Sara Greenwald | May 12, 2019 | Blog Item, Uncategorized
London and Amsterdam phasing out diesel cars The first step in the program, to be implemented next year, is the banning of diesel cars built before 2005. In London, where congestion pricing has charged all drivers for entering a portion of the city center since 2003,...
by Sara Greenwald | May 3, 2019 | Blog Item, Uncategorized
Uber switches filing that lists transit as a competitor By Matt McFarland, CNN Business, Apr 26, 2019 Uber updated its S-1 filing on Friday ahead of its IPO and largely eliminated references to competing with public transportation. The move follows criticism from...
by Sara Greenwald | Apr 14, 2019 | Blog Item
But they’re not heading down it fast. “Eight new electric school buses will become part of the Berkeley Unified School District, or BUSD, bus fleet at no additional cost to the district and will potentially be put into use for the upcoming 2019-20 school year. BUSD...
