Today’s Headlines
| | No Comments- Prepare for Thanksgiving Argument: Don’t Blame Joe for High CA Gas Prices (SF Gate)
- California Cities Rush to Limit Density After State Law Gives Flexibility (Chronicle)
- Oakland Police Union Blames ‘Defund the Police’ for Cities’ Ills (EBT)
- Will Infra Bill Be a Success? Depends on How Cities Spend Money (Transit Center)
- SFO Braces for Heavy Travel as Holiday Trips Are Back (Examiner)
- Reminder: Thanksgiving Is One of the Most Dangerous Times to Be on the Road… (National Safety Council)
- …And That’s Before Taking the Wind Into Account (SF Gate)
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And America’s Most Toxic Car Ad Is…
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Chevrolet's ad for the 2015 Colorado had claimed the title of America's Most Toxic Car Ad — but it's only the tip of a much larger toxic iceberg.
In a decisive championship win, this bad ad won 64 percent of the vote over a rival Dodge spot, and pretty much lost whatever respect Chevy might have had from the Streetsblog audience.
And in a way, it's not much of a surprise...because it's basically a look under the hood of how all automakers manipulate their customers into buying machines that kill.
Here's how they do it.
Today’s Headlines
| | No Comments- Police Nationwide Target Hispanic Drivers for Traffic Stops, Cover It Up by Listing Them as “White” (ProPublica)
- Tracking the Status of Bay Area’s Biggest Transportation Projects (Chronicle)
- DOT Cheat Sheet Breaks Down Infra. Bill Benefits by State (Mass Transit)
- Berkeley Landmarked a Gas Station. It Will Be Replaced by Housing Anyway (Berkeleyside)
- California’s Tool to Identify Its Most Vulnerable Communities Misses Some in SF (SF Chronicle)
- State Pushes for Explanation from SF on Rejection of Housing Developments (SF Chronicle)
- In Redistricting Process, the Stakes are High (Capitol Weekly)
- US to Release 50 Million Barrels of Oil (Chronicle)
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Almost No One in Congress Has Signed Onto National ‘Vision Zero’ Pledge
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"Honestly, this should be an easy first step," said one activist.
‘An Epic Mistake’: Donald Shoup Reflects on America’s Parking Failure
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"There are so many ways in which we’d be better off if we reformed our parking policy: reductions in greenhouse gas emissions, nitrous oxide emissions, particulate pollution, traffic crashes. Urban planners have made epic mistakes in almost all of their parking policies. But now they can fix it."
Today’s Headlines
| | No Comments- Why Doesn’t the Tenderloin Have a Slow Street? (Gate)
- Palo Alto Gets a Bike/Ped Bridge Over the Highway (Palo Alto Online)
- Why Is Project Roomkey Shutting Down in SF? (Chronicle)
- Supe Suggests Getting Rid of Parking at Muni Stops (SF Bay)
- Just How Long Is This Drought Going to Last? (Gate)
- Federal RAISE Grants Mean $58m for CA Transit (Yahoo! News)
- Including Some for CA High-Speed Rail Work in Wasco (Gold Rush Cam)
- Build Back Better Bill Passed by House, Now Goes to Senate (Bicycle Retailer)
- Tesla’s “Full Self-Driving” Mode Is a Disaster. (CNN)
- SF Gate Lists ‘Worst Times for Holiday Drives’
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SFMTA Used Design, Education to Encourage Slower and Safer Left Turns
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Forty percent of the traffic deaths in San Francisco in 2019 were caused when drivers made left turns and didn’t see someone in the crosswalk they were heading into until it was too late.
Dear Joe: The Electric Hummer is Not the Future
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An open letter to the American president that his constant cheerleading for electric mega-cars is not only a bad look, but bad policy.
Today’s Headlines
| | No Comments- If You Want Great Highway Closed to Cars, Need to Improve Connecting Transit (Chronicle)
- “Bay Wheels” Bike Share Faces Uncertain Future (Examiner)
- NTSB Investigating Safety on BART (Chronicle)
- Dems Climate Bill Passes the House (Merc-News)
- Editorial: CA Missing the Boat on Climate Change (Merc-News)
- Editorial: If CA Wants to Lead on Climate Needs to Kick Fossil Fuels (Chronicle)
- Drought Going to Be Worse Next Year (Chronicle)
- Study: Half of Ride-Hail Trips Replace Transit Trips, Only 2 Percent To or From Transit (Quartz)
- Other Study: Ride-Hail Has a Negative Effect on Greenhouse Gas Emissions (NRDC)
- Bay Area’s First Bridge Has Been Abandoned for 40 Years (SFGate)
- Consumer Reports : Tesla’s Aren’t Reliable (SF Gate)
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Talking Headways Podcast: Transit Expansion and Service in the Pandemic
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This week we’re at the 2021 Virtual Railvolution conference. Adelee Le Grand, CEO of Tampa's transit system, moderates a panel featuring Debra Johnson of RTD in Denver, and Peter Rogoff of Sound Transit in Seattle. Johnson and Rogoff discuss progress in their regions and the effects of the pandemic.
Today’s Headlines
| | No Comments- Awesome Profile of Bibliobicicleta (SF Gate)
- Oakland Asks for Feedback on Making Chinatown Streets Safer (Oaklandside)
- Palo Alto Plans “Microtransit” Network (Palo Alto Online)
- CA Has the Most Zero Emission Trucks and Buses – and Jobs – in the Nation (EDF)
- Two Pedestrians Killed in Separate East Bay Crashes (EBT)
- More on How Infra. Bill Impacts Bay Area (Examiner)
- Can you get Smogville to net-zero emissions without being thrown out of the mayor’s office in this City Lab game?
- Infra. Bill: $2 billion to Improve Accessibility at Transit Stations That Aren’t ADA Compliant. (CBS News)
- It’s Going to Rain (SF Gate)
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