Traffic Studies Are Junk ‘Science’
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Community leaders and the courts are putting too much faith into dubious traffic studies that always seem to predict more and more driving, a new study argues — but that could all change.
Recent Streetsblog SF posts about Traffic
Caltrans D4 Gets Another “Environmental” Award for Highway Widening
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Why actually try to fight global warming and make a more sustainable future when you can just lie about it?
Motorists Kill Two Cyclists and a Pedestrian as Carnage Continues in Oakland, S.F.
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Officials in the Bay Area think by using inexpensive plastic and paint (and sometimes gently curving, concrete curbs) they're designing streets to keep everybody safe, motorists included. But what they're really doing is transferring the consequences of reckless driving from the perpetrators to everyone else. These past few weeks we've seen the tragic results.
New Rule on Environmental Impacts of Driving, Long Awaited, Goes Into Effect on Wednesday
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And Caltrans will host a webinar today, open to all, to discuss "Rethinking How We Build So Californians Can Drive Less."
The End of Peak Driving?
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Cross-posted from City Observatory. A little over a year ago, a gallon of regular gasoline cost $3.70. Since then, that price has plummeted, and remains more than a dollar cheaper than it was through most of 2014. Over the same period, there’s been a small but noticeable uptick in driving in the US. After nearly […]
Census: 95% of New SF Commuters Since 2006 Don’t Drive Solo
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As San Francisco’s economy booms, a lot more people are commuting, and very few are doing it in a car. Between 2006 and 2014, the city saw a net growth of about 86,400 commuters, and 95 percent of them don’t drive, according to data from the US Census American Community Survey. The ACS numbers provide the best available […]