350 Bay Area Transportation Blog
AVs Must Be Electric
California must demand green autonomous cars before they hit our roads The world’s scientific community has concluded that we must cut carbon emissions in half by 2030 and achieve carbon neutrality by 2050 in order to avoid a climate catastrophe. Do we really have any...
How U.S. Law Insists We Drive
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...
NY Had a Plan to Speed Up Buses. A Judge Just Blocked It
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...
London, Amsterdam phasing out diesel cars
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,...
Uber About-Face to SEC
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...
Berkeley school district to head down path of sustainability with electric buses
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...
Against Idiocy with Kafui Attoh
A Marxist sounds off on the transportation dilemma. “Car dominance, public transit austerity, and the neoliberal political-economy within which both are embedded have fomented what Marx called idiocy, in its classical sense of privatized social isolation,” Dan writes...
Should Transit Be Free?
This article reports on research about the effect on ridership of making transit free, and concludes that it isn’t always a good idea, and goes on to review other ways cities enhance and nourish their transit systems. A few tidbits: In Dunkirk, population 100,000,...
Let New York be the start of a congestion-pricing revolution
Local leaders in America are exploring the viability of congestion charges in their communities. Cities across the globe including London, Singapore, and Stockholm are already case studies in favor of congestion charges…..And in fact, the implementation of congestion...
New York City Adopts Congestion Pricing
The congestion pricing deal deferred many of the difficult decisions — how much to charge drivers and who will receive exemptions — to the Triborough Bridge and Tunnel Authority and a new traffic mobility review board. Eighty percent of the revenue will be directed to...