Transportation Funding
Feds Award $3B for CA High-Speed Rail, and $3B for Vegas-to-LA HSR
"This show of support from the Biden-Harris Administration is a vote of confidence in today’s vision and comes at a critical turning point, providing the project new momentum."
December 6, 2023
What New Yorkers Get — And Don’t Get — In The New Citi Bike Deal
There's a new deal to expand the Citi Bike electric vehicle fleet — but how good is it? Let the Explainer fill you in.
November 6, 2023
California Transportation Commission Chair: “Widen Freeways for the People”
Every dollar spent on widening highways right now is a dollar not spent on better, cleaner, safer, and more sustainable alternatives. It is also a dollar that will require future dollars to be spent in order to maintain what it is building today. Widening highways now is a way to keep the status quo in place for years into the future, when we need to change that status quo.
October 24, 2023
Highways to Hell: How One Country is Rethinking Road Investment
The Wales Roads Review – an unprecedented examination of whether investment in over fifty local road schemes should continue – signals high-profile change by the Welsh Government, prompted by the climate emergency.
October 6, 2023
What Is to Become of Southern California’s Coastal Rail Corridor?
Emergency repairs are done, and now there will be more studying of the problems.
August 15, 2023
California’s State Transportation Officials Say We ‘Need to Drive Less’
The draft Carbon Reduction Strategy is being circulated for public comment by August 18.
August 8, 2023
How Can Buses Be Sped Up?
And what do state and regional agencies plan to do about it?
July 28, 2023
CA Wins Federal Grants to Support Transit in “Areas of Persistent Poverty”
These are competitive grants for planning, engineering, or developing transit service improvements in historically disadvantaged communities.
July 24, 2023
Recommendations for Calif. Gas Tax- Funded Programs Announced
California Transportation Commission will consider adoption of staff recommendations for Solutions for Congested Corridors, Trade Corridors Enhancement, and Local Partnership programs at their June meeting.
June 9, 2023
Caltrans D4 Get’s Another “Environmental” Award for Highway Widening
Why actually try to fight global warming and make a more sustainable future when you can just lie about it?
February 22, 2023
