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Where Are California’s E-bike Incentives?
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Imagine if policymakers took the potential for ebikes seriously. Imagine if legislative analysts noted that ongoing funding for new electric car subsidies could displace funding for more effective mode-shifting and VMT reduction via e-bikes, instead of the other way around.
Meet Bay Area Bike Share
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Update 4:53 p.m.: The SFMTA just launched a bike-share station crowdsourcing map (using, we should note, a tool from OpenPlans, Streetsblog’s parent organization). The agency wants “people’s comments on where they would like to see Bay Area Bike Share stations as well as what they think of the initial 35 station locations,” said spokesperson Ben Jose. It’s probably […]
SPUR Talk: Emeryville Sets the Way for Housing, Bike Infra
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When it comes to housing and transportation, Emeryville is out front
SPUR Talk: Running a Big City DOT
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Seleta Reynolds, General Manager of the Los Angeles Department of Transportation, was working at the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency’s Livable Streets section three years ago, when a friend called and asked if he could put her name in the hat for manager of LADOT. “I giggled and said I’m not qualified,” she recalled at a […]
This Week: Downtown, Bike Camping, E-Bikes
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Here is a list of events this week.
We Need Better E-Bike Incentives
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Nonetheless, e-bike incentives still aren't an easy sell among the groups that are best poised to create them.