Bills Still Alive: Parking Reform, Corporate Climate Accountability
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The meat grinder of the Appropriations process spits out a few wins
Recent Streetsblog SF posts about livable streets
NYC Rolling Out Tech to Stop Gov’t Workers from Speeding
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Mayor Adams announces a way to get drivers of city-owned cars to slow down. But the pilot program will start in just 50 cars — 0.2 percent of the fleet.
CA Gets $120 Million for 8 “Sustainable and Equitable” Infrastructure Projects
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In California, eight projects will receive grants on this go-round, for a total of about $120 million.
Today’s Headlines
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Transit Budget Gaps Coming (Route50) Ride All of Bay Area Transit in One Day? (SFChron) Can Cities Protect Public Transit from Global Warming? (NextCity) Pro-Transit, Former LA Mayor to Become State Infrastructure Tsar (EastBayTimes) More on Parking-Before-Safety Music Venue, Bottom of the Hill (SFChron, SFStandard) Summer Stages Threatened by Global Warming (SFExaminer) Climate Activists Step up […]
“One Bike Lane Could Destroy Our Venue”
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Bottom of the Hill, Potrero Hill music venue, is fighting safe bike infrastructure
Talking Headways Podcast: Asphalt Art!
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How communities can use paint as an effective and relatively low-cost strategy to activate their streets.
RAISE Grants to Fund Complete Streets in Nearly Every State
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The first recipients of a newly expanded major transportation grant program will deliver significant money for biking, walking and transit — and even some road projects that federal transportation leaders say will help non-drivers, too.
Today’s Headlines
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$120 Million for California Transportation Projects (PortTech) Public Transit Faces Years Long Recovery (Fitch) New York Coming Back Stronger than S.F. From COVID (SFChron) New Ways to Dig Subway Tunnels? (Wired) People Buying Instead of Renting Scooters (SFExaminer) Fed’s Share Report on East Oakland Amtrak vs. Tractor Crash (EastBayTimes) Bridge Traffic Nears Pre-Pandemic Levels (SFChron) […]
Feds Commit Money to Howard Street Improvements
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Significant upgrades will be coming to Howard Street's mostly paint-and-plastic based protected bike lanes in SoMa.
California’s Laws on Cell Phone Use While Driving Are Not Good Enough
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Washington and Oregon, which have similar distracted driving law on cellphone use, reduced crashes at a higher rate than California