John Hennessy III,
P.E.
LEGISLATIVE ANALYST’S OFFICE
California’s proposed high–speed rail project would link the state’s major population centers, including Sacramento, the San Francisco Bay Area, the Central Valley, Los Angeles, the Inland Empire, Orange County, and San Diego…In this report, we describe a number of problems that pose threats to the high–speed rail project’s successful development as envisioned by Proposition 1A.
Go take a ride down 3rd Street and Broadway to see the brand new bike lanes and bike signals!
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LATITUDE & NEXT AMERICAN CITY
Study participants felt that there were a number of inherent benefits to driving less, many of which aligned with their own personal goals—perks like good exercise, reducing one’s carbon footprint, feeling more immersed in their communities, or having more time to read or relax.
InfrastructureUSA is coming to Flickr with a photo group called “American Infrastructure,” a visual collection U.S. infrastructure: “…roads, school buildings, water pipes, canals–the successful and working infrastructure, and the decaying infrastructure that we need to fix.”
Join the group, and share your infrastructure photographs with the Flickr community!
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LATITUDE & NEXT AMERICAN CITY
In late 2010, Latitudeº asked 18 participants (10 from Boston, 8 from San Francisco) not to use their cars for one week. The vast majority of participants had ranked cars as their most necessary form of transportation, with the remainder using their cars at least weekly.
As Green For All’s Chief Strategist on State and Local Initiatives, Cecilia Estolano oversees the organization’s State and Local Initiatives Team and Capital Access Program. She is charged with spearheading Green For All’s effort to scale public-private partnerships to grow family-supporting green jobs in cities across the United States, and advocates for broad access and opportunity in all sectors of the clean-energy economy.
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BUS RIDERS UNION
Part one provides a profile of workers who use public transportation as their commute mode, and finds that a disproportionate share live in low-income households, are less likely to have access to a car, rent rather than own their homes, and belong to a minority group.
POLICYLINK
Infrastructure, so long relegated to the background in the worlds of economic policy, urban revitalization, and workforce development, has recently become the center of much more attention. Due to the federal economic stimulus, the growing interest in the green economy, and crises caused by underinvestment in public works, infrastructure has enjoyed a much higher profile of late.
This innovative, pilot project will create the first separated bikeway in Southern California, in Downtown Long Beach along Broadway and 3rd Streets — between Alamitos Avenue and Golden Avenue.
This will create an attractive transportation alternative for travel into downtown, including the 79 percent of downtown workers who drive alone to work each day. It also creates a more livable environment for the increasing number of residents who make downtown their home.
For more information, please visit http://www.bikelongbeach.org
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