Recent Streetsblog SF posts about LOS Reform

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TSP Rebooted: Bureaucratic Revamp Could Boost Transit and Livable Streets

By Aaron Bialick | Jun 3, 2015 | 2 Comments

San Francisco agencies have re-introduced the Transportation Sustainability Program, a bureaucratic overhaul that could dramatically expedite improvements for walking, biking, and transit, while discouraging car parking in new developments. In developing the program, SF planners are also nearing completion of the nation’s first major study showing that dedicated car parking encourages driving. The TSP is three-pronged: It would overhaul SF’s development fee […]

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Replacing LOS: Experts Debate How CA Should Measure Transpo Impacts

By Melanie Curry | Nov 7, 2014 | No Comments

California planning experts continue to debate how to most effectively measure transportation impacts in a way that will foster smarter growth, after the state abandoned the car-centric metric known as Level of Service (LOS). The acronym-laden process of measuring transportation under the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) may be complex and wonky, but it’s certainly important. In […]

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Replacing LOS: CA Hones Details on Its New Transportation Planning Metric

By Melanie Curry | Oct 8, 2014 | No Comments

Agreeing on a new way to measure transportation impacts — and not just delays for drivers — is no simple task for California’s planning policymakers. The Governor’s Office of Planning and Research (OPR) is fine-tuning its proposal to replace Level of Service, the metric recently ditched by the state which focused exclusively on car delays, […]

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California Has Officially Ditched Car-Centric ‘Level of Service’

By Damien Newton and Melanie Curry | Aug 7, 2014 | No Comments

Ding, dong… LOS is dead. At least as far as the state of California is concerned. Level of Service (LOS) has been the standard by which the state measures the transportation impacts of major developments and changes to streets. It is basically a measurement of how many cars can be pushed through an intersection in a […]

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California Legislation Watch: Weekly Update

By Melanie Curry | Apr 4, 2014 | No Comments

For social media coverage of California’s statewide transportation issues, follow Melanie @currymel on Twitter or like the Streetsblog California Facebook page. Here’s Streetsblog’s weekly highlight of legislation and events related to sustainable transportation at the California capitol. News on the implementation of S.B. 743, which removes Automobile Level of Service from consideration as an environmental impact […]

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Excitement, Confusion Over Proposed Removal of LOS in CEQA

By Melanie Curry | Feb 14, 2014 | No Comments

With today’s deadline looming for comments on new rules governing the way the state analyzes transportation planning impacts, many transportation planners and engineers remain confused about what the new rules might mean while others join advocates in hoping that new rules will create better projects. SB 743, signed into law last year, removes traffic Level of […]

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