by Sara Greenwald | Feb 21, 2019 | Blog Item
Trump Administration, Getting Set for a Major Rollback, Ends Clean Air Talks with California. Stanley Young, a spokesman for the air resources board, said meetings between the sides had been held but “were always at a superficial level, with no effort to engage in a...
by Sara Greenwald | Feb 19, 2019 | Blog Item
Train to nowhere? Here’s how high-speed rail project went off the rails Did it go off the rails, or was it derailed by nimbyism and a diehard car culture? California’s high-speed rail project has repeatedly hit lawsuits, engineering problems, geological obstacles,...
by Sara Greenwald | Feb 11, 2019 | Blog Item
Minneapolis and Seattle Have Achieved the Holy Grail for Sustainable Transportation Even with low gas prices, population growth, and Uber and Lyft circling 24/7, Minneapolis and Seattle have reduced the amount of driving in their cities. Read how they did it. By Angie...
by Sara Greenwald | Feb 11, 2019 | Blog Item
Support growing in SF for transit-oriented housing, poll finds An annual state-of-the-city poll commissioned by the San Francisco Chamber of Commerce revealed that 74% of the survey’s 500 respondents supported a state bill that would, among other things, prevent...
by Sara Greenwald | Jan 27, 2019 | Blog Item
This new dad rides the bus all day, every day, determined to log the whole length of every Muni line with his baby. The mother “did veto two lines: the 90-San Bruno Owl and the 91-Third Street/19th Ave. Owl, which run only in the middle of the night.” Read the article...
by Sara Greenwald | Jan 22, 2019 | Blog Item
Engineering Group Takes on High Speed Limits “The National Committee on Uniform Traffic Control Devices, a powerful group of engineers, voted last week to require city transportation officials to consider “pedestrian and bicycle activity” when determining the speed...
