Two Pedestrian Safety Campaigns That Make Some Sense
The “Drive Like Your Kids Died Here” and “[Insert Loved One Here]” campaigns drive home a point about safety that is frequently missed in other public service messaging: Drivers need to be more cautious, no matter what a pedestrian may be doing.
March 1, 2018
Bill Could Make it Easier for Cities to Lower Speed Limits
While not the whole solution for safety, lowering speed limits is one tool for safer streets--if it can be utilized.
February 23, 2018
Autonomous Vehicles Are Coming, and California Isn’t Ready
The basic message was: California better get on it. AVs are coming, like it or not, and they will either bring great things or they will make everything a whole lot worse.
February 22, 2018
Montclair, California Declares War on Pedestrians
What's next? Should Montclair outlaw being blind while walking? Being old and slow? Being in a wheelchair? Being short? Being young?
February 20, 2018
Measuring the Risk to Bike Riders of Breathing Pollution
Bike riders are vulnerable road users, exposed to a variety of dangers, but the dangers imposed by pollution are not usually taken into account when planning bike routes.
February 7, 2018
New Website Helps Californians Find Resources, Help with Cutting Carbon
While California has been forging ahead with policies and incentives to cut the state’s greenhouse gas emissions, it hasn’t always been easy for individuals and communities to access those programs.
February 7, 2018
Governor Brown’s Proposed Budget Includes First New Gas Tax Funds
Transform's Joshua Stark says the proposed budget would invest more in public transportation, walking, and biking than any previous state budget.
January 12, 2018
Complete Streets Bill Cut Drastically
As originally written, S.B. 760 would have required Caltrans to consider all users of its streets and roads when building, maintaining, or rehabilitating those facilities—and the bill had some teeth.
January 11, 2018
Bill to Allow Bikes to Treat Stop Signs as Yield Signs Spiked
Insurance industry freaks out: Chaos. Unpredictability. “Personal interpretation” of laws, oh my.
January 8, 2018
Joint Legislative Committee Discusses Future of Cap-and-Trade, Climate Policies
Cap-and-trade is working, says CARB, but needs to work harder. Meanwhile federal support is disappearing, and the administration may actively undermine the state's work. And disagreement about a definition cloaks a wider point of conflict on cap-and-trade.
January 5, 2018
