Joe Linton
Recent Posts
Another Reason NOT to Put Transit in Medians
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Caltrans should fix the freeway where vehicles repeatedly crash into the Metro Gold Line. At a minimum Caltrans should let Metro proceed with upgrades.
New from StreetFilms: Los Angeles: The Great American Transit Experiment
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StreetFilms and TransitCenter explore L.A. transit successes and issues, and question what is needed to make transit better serve the county's future
L.A. Mayor Speaks at NACTO, Advocates Protest Lack of Progress
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Mayor Garcetti touted L.A.'s "transportation renaissance" while demonstrators criticized the Mayor's lack of progress on Vision Zero
Insights from TranspoGroup’s Autonomous Vehicles Conference
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Autonomous Vehicles are coming sometime soon - they're expected to increase driving and decrease transit trips, but cities can prepare for them now.
Pedestrian Beg Buttons Exist to Serve People in Cars
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Pedestrian beg buttons are not serving pedestrians; they exist to serve people in cars. They minimize car travel delays while making people on foot wait longer.
Mid-Freeway Transit Stations Are Hellishly Loud
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Mid-freeway transit stations are annoyingly loud environments and may be harmful to your health
Trying to Find the Truth in the Latest LA Times, NY Times CA High-Speed Rail Pieces
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Earlier this week, both the New York Times and the L.A. Times published articles on California High-Speed Rail. The NYT tells the overall CAHSR story in an informative and fairly balanced way. The L.A. Times continues its long history of misleading CAHSR articles by Ralph Vartabedian.
L.A. Times Calls California Speed Trap Law “Absurd” and Urges Reform
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California's archaic state speed law "is an absurd way to govern a public space."
Yosemite Enforces Its Bus-Only Lanes, But How Can the Park Better Manage Car Traffic?
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Should Yosemite visitors expect hour+ delays? Or are there better ways to manage the park's notorious traffic congestion?
Read Excerpts from Donald Shoup’s ‘Parking and the City’
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Donate to Streetsblog SF this week to win a signed copy of Donald Shoup's Parking and the City
Santa Monica Proposes Regulations For E-Scooters, E-Bikes
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Santa Monica is proposing a 16-month pilot for three operators to run limited e-scooter/e-bike operations
Statewide Election Round-Up
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Good news on several state measures that impact livability. Bad news on a Southern California recall that could be a proxy for a push to repeal the state's recent gas tax increase