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Talking Headways Podcast: More Highways, More Driving
This week, we’re joined by Ben Holland, senior associate at the Rocky Mountain Institute to talk about important strategies for reducing emissions in the transportation and land use sectors. We talk about the disconnect between techno-optimists and urbanists in climate change approach, RMI’s new Colorado induced travel calculator, and the hard choices regions have on transportation and development.
June 4, 2021
OPINION: Raise the Gas Tax? Yes, but Fix Transportation Spending First
As Congress considers President Biden’s $1.7 trillion infrastructure proposal, a broad array of Americans with competing viewpoints and interests has been offering their two cents about how to pay for necessary investments in our country’s transportation future.
June 2, 2021
Sign CalBike’s Petition to Eliminate Parking Requirements Near Transit
A.B. 1401 must pass the Assembly this week, but there is still organized opposition to it.
June 2, 2021
TACTICAL URBANISM: Let’s Make More Plazas
Hey tactical urbanists: Want to know a quick way to gain street space for people?
June 1, 2021
Legislative Update: A Quick Peek at the Current Status of Some Worthy Bills
The latest from Sacramento
May 28, 2021
Talking Headways Podcast: Dignity in Place (A Framework for Inclusive Healthy Places)
Want great public spaces? Start with basic human dignity for all people.
May 28, 2021
“School of Rock” drummer Kevin Clark is second cyclist killed at Logan/Western within 13 years
According to the Chicago Police Department, on Wednesday, May 26, at about 1:20 a.m., Clark was bicycling west on Logan. At Western Avenue, the southbound driver of a silver Hyundai Sonata sedan struck him. The cyclist “sustained trauma throughout the body” and was taken to Illinois Masonic Hospital. Clark was pronounced dead at the hospital at 2:04 a.m.
May 28, 2021
Democrats’ Georgia Transit Gambit
When Raphael Warnock and Jon Ossoff were on the campaign trail last fall, transit wasn’t much of an issue in a state that’s historically been hostile to it outside of Atlanta’s urban core. But since Georgia’s two new senators took office — giving Democrats the majority — they’ve made it a top priority, testifying in hearings and touring their home state to build support for President Biden’s infrastructure plan.
May 27, 2021
Dignity in Place (A Framework for Inclusive Healthy Places)
This week, we’re joined by Sharon Roerty, senior program officer at the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, and Maki Kawaguchi, a director at Gehl, to talk about the Inclusive Healthy Places Framework
May 27, 2021
Asm Patterson Blows Hot Air on “Highway Capacity Increase”
As California is figuring out how to put the brakes on its habit of expanding highways everywhere, the unsurprising pushback over long-planned "legacy" projects has begun.
May 26, 2021