Recent Streetsblog SF posts about Streetsblog Los Angeles

Report: In Cutting Emissions, CAHSR Expensive Compared to Local Upgrades

By Melanie Curry | Mar 25, 2014 | No Comments

Streetfilms featured Los Angeles’ Orange Line BRT and bike path in 2009. A new UCLA report says infrastructure projects like the Orange Line are a better way to invest cap-and-trade funds than CA High-Speed Rail. UCLA’s Lewis Center published a report yesterday finding that California’s High-Speed Rail project is a relatively expensive way to reduce greenhouse gas emissions (GHG) […]

Caltrans on the Hot Seat: Assembly Looks at State, Local Planning Tensions

By Melanie Curry | Mar 5, 2014 | No Comments

It was the California State Assembly’s turn to review the recent State Smart Transportation Initiative (SSTI) report on Caltrans at a Transportation Committee hearing Monday. The discussion played out along the same lines as the Senate Transportation Committee hearing last month, where Professor Joel Rogers, who led the team that produced the report for the California Transportation […]

CA Legislation Watch: Bills Introduced That Could Impact Livable Streets

By Melanie Curry | Feb 25, 2014 | No Comments

The deadline to introduce new bills to the California legislature was Friday, so a slew of new legislation is currently being assigned to committees for hearing. Some of them are so-called “spot” bills, as in “hold a spot in line for me, bub,” containing a bare minimum of information, with the plan being to shape […]

Sen. Steinberg Proposes Carbon Tax on Gas Instead of Cap-and-Trade

By Melanie Curry | Feb 21, 2014 | No Comments

CA Senator Darrell Steinberg proposed a change yesterday to California’s nascent cap-and-trade program that would replace next year’s cap on fuel emissions with a per-gallon carbon tax. Steinberg called it a “broader, more stable, and more flexible” way to reduce emissions from fuels than cap-and-trade. His proposal would apply the revenue raised from the tax […]

Meet Our New Sacramento Teammate: Melanie Curry

By Damien Newton | Jan 24, 2014 | No Comments

Streetsblog SF and Los Angeles have a new hire starting on February 1 that will dramatically expand our coverage. I am pleased to announce that Melanie Curry will be as full-time writer covering news out of the California capitol and across the state. Melanie will be covering statewide issues that impact transportation, open space, livability […]

State Bill Would Require License Suspension for All Hit and Run Drivers

By Damien Newton | Jan 23, 2014 | No Comments

CA Assemblyman Mike Gatto introduced legislation Tuesday mandating that any driver who commits a hit and run offense, even if the victim is not seriously injured, forfeit their driver’s license for six months. Gatto’s legislation is his second effort to criminalize hit and run crashes following last year’s Assembly Bill 184 which extended the statute […]

Show More Stories