September 26, 2005
An alternate universe...
To Conserve Gas, President Calls for Less Driving
August 01, 2005
Article: Transit Funding in the Bay Area
"I feel like it's Christmas,'' said Bob McCleary, executive director of the Contra Costa County Transportation Authority, who called the widening project the county's most critical. "It's twice what we had been led to expect we would get.''
June 09, 2005
Article: CA as a transportation study
The Economist takes a look at growing commute times using CA as a model for discussion. Solutions to traffic include raising gas prices, HOT and HOV lanes, public transit, and, most interestingly, zoning for fewer parking spaces:
Under the current rules, for every single job in the central business district of Los Angeles there is 0.52 of a parking space; in San Francisco, there is 0.14 of a parking space for each job; in New York, just 0.06. Last week, a $1.8 billion project to revitalise LA's downtown area around Grand Avenue was unveiled: it envisages offices, a 275-room hotel, up to 2,600 housing units—and as many as 5,500 new parking spaces. Land-use policies help explain why San Francisco County's 2m licensed drivers have a mere 382,000 cars between them, while LA County's 5.9m drivers have 5.9m.
May 01, 2005
The Highline
MOMA's Highline exhibit