California
A Highway Teardown Appears Likely, In an Unlikely Place
As the nation prepares for the expansion of the Panama Canal and all port cities go crazy deepening and widening everything in sight, the second biggest biggest port in the country is doing something unexpected: planning a highway teardown.
November 22, 2013
Do Immigrant Neighborhoods Hold the Secret to Ride-Sharing?
When researchers look at the reasons behind the downward trend in driving rates in the U.S., they look at several demographics: young people who prefer urban living and are getting into biking, or baby boomers who have picked a more vibrant place to spend their retirement.
October 28, 2013
Can California HSR Learn From Spain’s Fatal Train Crash?
The Spanish train crash in Santiago de Compostela that killed 79 people last week has sparked questions about whether high-speed rail is safe. In fact, it's among the safest ways to travel, and technology that already exists can make the type of human error that led to tragedy in Spain nearly a non-issue. Future high-speed rail in California will be equipped with that technology.
July 31, 2013
Expanded, Simplified TIFIA Still Greasing the Gears of Highway Expansion
A federal loan awarded to a California highway illustrates how TIFIA, the "innovative" transportation financing program that was expanded as part of MAP-21, is still funding business-as-usual highway projects.
July 8, 2013
Another Swing (and a Miss) From Anderson Cooper’s Show on High-Speed Rail
My apologies, readers: Anderson Cooper did another segment slandering high-speed rail last month and it’s taken me this long to bring it to your attention.
July 8, 2013
Guerrilla Crosswalk Painter Arrested by Vallejo Police, Cheered By Neighbors
This story falls into the unusual but persistent overlap between pedestrian advocacy and vandalism. In Vallejo, California, last week, one man saw the need for a crosswalk at a dangerous intersection, and decided it was his job to make it happen.
June 4, 2013
Transport U: Stanford Turns Green Commuting Into Greenbacks
This is the second installment in Streetsblog's series on transportation demand management at American colleges and universities. Part one gave an overview of TDM techniques that schools employ. This post looks at how Stanford University has used TDM to reduce driving and realize huge savings in the process.
April 17, 2013
Parking Madness: San Bernardino vs. Houston
With Milwaukee, Tulsa, Dallas, Louisville, Cleveland, and Atlanta advancing to the second round of Parking Madness, there are only two spaces left in the Elite Eight of parking disasters. In this installment, we're looking at two very different cities, each of which is extremely car-centric in its own way. It's San Bernardino versus Houston.
March 28, 2013
LaHood: “We’re Not Giving Up on High-Speed Rail” in California
California Republicans from Fresno and Bakersfield put their foot down in a House hearing yesterday, rejecting the high-speed rail project whose initial segment would run between those two cities.
December 7, 2012
Shoup: Free Parking to Blame for California’s Solo Car Commuting Habit
Nonprofit reporting group California Watch recently looked at how Californians travel to work and concluded that free parking provided by the state's employers is leading to a lot of street-clogging solo car commuting.
November 13, 2012