State Legislature
Attempt to Undermine Calif. VMT Rules Becomes a Bill to Study Their Use Instead
The California Environmental Quality Act added Vehicle Miles Traveled (VMT) as a way to measure transportation impacts, and sprawl supporters are unhappy about it.
January 16, 2024
California Has to Stop Building Freeways. Now.
"People aren't used to thinking of freeways as fossil fuel infrastructure, but they are." And once built, there's no going back, no making up for the extra driving by trying to convince people that a bus or train might be a better choice - we're stuck with it.
September 26, 2023
CA Legislature Passes Speed Camera Bill
Now it's up to Governor Newsom to sign it.
September 13, 2023
Did Minnesota Just Release the Best Statewide Transportation Bill Yet?
Minnesota's new state transportation financing and policy bill reads like a sustainable transportation advocates' holiday wishlist. How did they get there— and could it be a model for other communities, too?
July 18, 2023
Revealed: State Pols Underfund Transit With Underhanded Move
Stop the steal! New York State has been underfunding the MTA by hundreds of millions of dollars for decades, quietly reclassifying dedicated county taxes as its own contribution to the transit agency's operating budget.
December 21, 2022
Drunk Drivers Who Kill Could Be Paying for their Crime for Almost 20 Years
New York's legislature is only following Tennessee and other states that are seeking to make drunk drivers pay child support if their actions orphan a child.
July 8, 2022
Outrage Builds Over ‘Magic Wand’ Gas Tax Holiday as State Studies Congestion Pricing for Years
It's an ironic move, given the state's environmental goals. It's also bad optics.
April 8, 2022
These States Won’t Adopt Even Bare Minimum Roadway Safety Laws
More than 40 states have failed to adopted a series of common-sense laws that advocates say would prevent many of the most easily avoidable crash deaths — and that reluctance to do the bare minimum doesn't bode well for those states' potential to more comprehensively reimagine their approaches to traffic safety.
January 19, 2022
BIPOC and Disability Advocates Zero In on Highway Spending
On March 9, advocacy organizations Front and Centered and Disability Rights Washington held the first of a series of press conferences calling for Washington State legislators to halt spending on new highways. Instead, the coalition urges lawmakers to prioritize investments in building missing sidewalks and creating reliable transit and paratransit systems to serve all Washington towns and cities.
March 26, 2021
State Senator Pushing ‘Idaho Stop’ Legalization Bill
January 11, 2021
