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Caltrans is about to open 4.5 miles of new express lanes on Interstate 15, part of an ambitious project to add four reversible express lanes to the freeway between Escondido and Miramar. Whether you think more freeway lanes are going to be useful or not (I don’t), what’s relevant for us is that the LA [...]
The most important news of the week isn’t about a lawsuit. It’s the report from a top British government climatologist arguing that global warming is going to happen faster and at a higher temperature than previously assumed. A 4C increase – equivalent to 7° Fahrenheit – would have a devastating impact on rainfall patterns, agriculture, [...]
It wasn’t the article I was hoping to read upon my return from my honeymoon, but it’s not that surprising to read in the Fresno Bee that the Sierra Club and the Planning and Conservation League are hesitating on backing Prop 1 and even considering a lawsuit – and for the nonsensical reason that the [...]
We all know that many of the HSR deniers are property owners who live in Menlo Park and Atherton, two of the wealthiest communities in our state. They worry that HSR is going to lower their home values – although exactly how is not clear. As Matthew James Melzer pointed out to me today, HSR [...]
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