Recent Streetsblog USA posts about California

Parking Madness Elite Eight: El Cerrito vs. Chicago

By Angie Schmitt | Apr 2, 2014 | 37 Comments

We’re two weeks into our Parking Madness competition, and only a few parking craters are still standing. Today’s Elite Eight matchup pairs a Bay Area suburb with America’s third largest city: It’s El Cerrito, California vs. Chicago. First up is El Cerrito, which was singled out for shame by one of our readers because of […]

Talking Headways Podcast: From the Free Market to the Flea Market

By Tanya Snyder | Mar 18, 2014 | No Comments

You think the conflict between Uber and regular taxi drivers — and cities like Seattle — is bad? Check out how new taxi apps in China are upending the transportation system and central economic planning. Meanwhile, in Houston, a flea market has brought revitalization without gentrification to a depressed area near the airport, and now […]

Dramatic Shift Away From Driving Continues in California

By Melanie Curry | Mar 17, 2014 | 1 Comment

In the first major travel survey since 2009, evidence grows that Americans are changing their transportation habits rapidly. The news from Caltrans’ 2012 California Household Travel Survey is dramatic: Californians are making far more trips by walking, bicycling, and transit than they were in 2000. The survey found the percentage of trips by these modes […]

The End for LOS in California? State Wants Input on a New Planning Metric

By Melanie Curry | Feb 13, 2014 | No Comments

With little fanfare, California is considering a change in how it measures transportation impacts that could herald a major change in environmental law. SB 743, passed and signed into law in September, is a potential game changer because it could completely remove LOS — Level of Service, a measure of car traffic congestion — from […]

Talking Headways Podcast: Vision Zero

By Tanya Snyder | Jan 22, 2014 | 1 Comment

The best thing about hosting a Streetsblog podcast is getting to call on other Streetsblog reporters for the lowdown on the biggest news of the week. In this case, Jeff Wood and I called Ben Fried, Streetsblog’s editor-in-chief based in New York, to provide some context for New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio’s big announcement […]

A Highway Teardown Appears Likely, In an Unlikely Place

By Tanya Snyder | Nov 22, 2013 | 3 Comments

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. The LA Times reported this week that Long Beach officials are studying the possibility of replacing […]

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