The Sierra Club lawsuit is asking that Caltrans properly analyze project impacts as specified in SB 743 in its environmental analysis and to fully #mitigate for those #impacts (i.e GHG emissions) as required under #SB32- using the newer dynamic UCD Induced Traffic calculator and mitigating these additional #VMTs through subsidies to public transit agencies and traffic management strategies instead of the wildly optimistic and woefully underfunded assumptions.
#DisplacedAndStarvingPeopleAroundTheRedSeaProtectCarbonBombShippingLanes
#BullshitJobs lead to #BullshitConflicts
#SharedMicroEMobilityNetworksDefuseCarbonBombs
#15MinuteNeighborhoodsShouldNeverBeBombed
#ForeverWarSubsidizesFossilFuelsAndSprawl
https://www.cnn.com/2024/05/15/business/us-tariffs-ev-europe-china-trade/index.html
#SharedMicroEMobilityNetworksDefuseCarbonBombs: A new road widening project with flyover lanes to accommodate the #InducedDriving from the road expansion for express lanes on 101 south of the project.
#DisplacedAndStarvingPeopleAroundTheRedSeaProtectCarbonBombShippingLanes
Grassroots effort to tax ridehailing apps to fund transit.
https://sfstandard.com/2024/04/23/ride-hail-tax-to-fund-muni/
#SUVsAreIncreasingPedestrianDeaths: American autos aren’t bigger because consumers have suddenly embraced off-roading, the construction trades, or home improvement projects. They’re bigger because automakers want to escape regulations. Each manufacturer is required to comply with boutique greenhouse gas emissions standards, which are calculated based on the size and capabilities of the cars in their fleets... As a result of the increased average footprint of cars, automakers in 2021 could emit eight more grams per mile than in 2012.
#SharedMicroEMobilityNetworksDefuseCarbonBombs
https://newrepublic.com/article/180044/epa-small-cars-sedan-suvs
#RegulatoryFailureOrDrownInABathtub. Inequality- supersizing your mobile dining room kills those fated to walk:
Since the 2008 recession, SUVs and pickup trucks have overtaken sedans and station wagons as the top selling vehicles. Now almost three-in-four new cars sold is an SUV or pickup. A number studies have confirmed the relationship between larger vehicles and rising pedestrian deaths. A 2015 review of the research by NHTSA found pedestrian who were struck by SUVs were 2.5 to three times more likely to be killed. Research by the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety examined how squarer, more “aggressive-looking” front ends — which are in fashion right now in the automobile industry — contribute to the problem.
#GiveFeetAChance
#carfreecitycenterplease
#VisionZero #RemoveRoads
#DangerousByDesign
#DaylightingSavesLives
#SlowStreetNetworks
#CrashesArentAccidents
#SharedMicroEMobilityNetworksDefuseCarbonBombs
#MicroMobilityFirstAndLastMile
#UNGlamourousSolutions
Gladwyn d’Souza
