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Climate Actions for State Agencies: Public Comment Period Closes Friday
California's Climate Action Plan for Transportation Investment (CAPTI) keeps facing pushback from people who just want more roads.
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CalSTA Announces Funding for Rail and Transit Projects
27 projects will receive $1.3 billion from the Transit and Intercity Capital Rail program, funded by the Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund (cap-and-trade).
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State Is Still Falling for the Hydrogen Train Con
Caltrans is planning to commit the state to pursuing a technology that is unproven, currently untested, and will involve unknown but extensive future costs.
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Newsom Administration Releases Previously Frozen Transit Funding
Long-promised transit recovery funds, for capital projects including zero emission improvements and for operations, begins to be released.
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Transportation Commission: Touting Active Transportation, Approving Highway Expansions
Despite public pleas to stop spending on highway expansion, pro-expansion forces still take the day.
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With a New Statewide Task Force, California Is Getting Real about Transit Transformation
Meeting California’s ambitious climate goals will require getting people out of cars and on to trains and buses. That shift could require as much as a five-fold to ten-fold increase in transit ridership above pre-COVID levels by 2045.
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California Transportation Agencies Celebrate New CA-Made San Joaquin Train Sets
A ribbon-cutting to mark the "beginning of a truly integrated transportation system" in California.
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California Launches New Transportation Equity Tool
The Transportation Equity Index maps out crash rates and creates a new way to map out multimodal access
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Governor Newsom’s “Climate Commitment” Does Not Include Active Transportation
The state is committed to climate investments, but one of its best climate programs - the ATP - is apparently dispensable
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Task Force Meets to Address the Future of California Transit
California's Transit Transformation Task Force must address a wide range of issues. Here are three that are crucial, from the perspective of one of the task force members.
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