Caltrans

Part 1: The LOS, VMT, CEQA, OPR alphabet soup

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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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We have to give Caltrans credit for doing a few projects solely for the benefit of pedestrians and bike riders - although, without pressure from advocates across California, we might not have even these. However, even when Caltrans focuses on Complete Streets, it leaves out critical elements.

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Caltrans has a policy requiring Complete Streets in its projects, but Caltrans Districts routinely ignore it

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Caltrans has a history of failing to follow its own policies around Complete Streets.

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Metro and Caltrans are planning to spend billions of dollars widening the 605, 5, 10, 60 and 105 Freeways. Really.

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Caltrans announced today that it is awarding planning grants to 89 local and regional projects that will lay the groundwork for making transportation "more resilient to the impacts of climate change."

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The environmental report for the Yolo Bypass project understates the true impacts of the project, according to the lawsuit

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Clearly Caltrans leadership doesn't take its own guidelines on mitigating induced travel very seriously.

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