Caltrans

Finally, a city council that gets the utter futility of widening to solve traffic

Are engineers at the state transportation agency intentionally trying to kill cyclists, are they incompetent, or both?

There's no evidence the bike lane contributes to congestion on the bridge

The Bay Area's transportation agencies need to build a balanced transportation system, not new car lanes under the moniker of "complete streets"

And Caltrans will host a webinar today, open to all, to discuss "Rethinking How We Build So Californians Can Drive Less."

Streetsblog receives a matrix of responses to its critique of the 23rd and 29th Avenue over-crossings in Oakland

Scrapping I-980 seems like a no-brainer, but the historical argument for getting rid of it assumes the freeway is a legacy of mid-century attempts to build barriers around white middle-class neighborhoods. That’s true of several major freeways, but the story of I-980 isn’t so clear cut.

For many years, cities have refused to consider bicycle and pedestrian improvements on or across state-owned highways—which frequently run right through cities. The stated reason is that Caltrans controls those streets and won't allow changes that might slow or impede car traffic.

How can we make it easier to get around between San Francisco and San Jose? That was the topic discussed by a group of transit advocates and professionals last Wednesday in Palo Alto at a Caltrain / 101 Corridor Vision Forum. The corridor is today plagued by crowded trains, a congested Highway 101, and ineffective public bus services.