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Today USPIRG released a new report showing that “the driving boom is over” – we’ve hit peak driving and now we’ll be seeing a long-term shift away from driving. In turn that means we need to be shifting transportation spending away from roads and toward transit and passenger rail, including high speed rail. This blog [...]
Hey you. Yeah, you reading this blog post. Would you like a free lunch? Any kind of food, from any location, your choice. OK, now what if I told you that you could have any kind of food from any location, but you’d have to pay $20 for it. Would you be less likely to [...]
Two pieces of transit funding news came out of Los Angeles today. The first is that the LA Streetcar won its vote among downtown property owners to create a local taxing district and raise $125 million in revenue to begin building a streetcar line. Unfortunately, we also learned that Measure J, the Los Angeles County [...]
The news wasn’t all good for passenger rail on Election Day. Los Angeles County’s Measure J, which would have extended the sales tax for transportation that was approved in 2008 by another 30 years, got 64.72% of the vote – and therefore “lost” according to the idiotic rule requiring a 2/3 vote to raise taxes [...]
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