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Home Posts tagged "Highways"

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Highway design could decrease death and injury risk, if “we” chose smarter designs

March 28, 2015 March 30, 2015

Is this highway interchange in the Dubai desert a waste of land, or a clue to better highway design that reduces the chance of death or injury? I just saw this, and my first thought was “what a waste of land” and “why not just a normal intersection”?  Then pondering…

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Gov. Brown signs laws that might help EV adoption while causing other problems

September 23, 2014 July 20, 2015

Over the weekend California Gov. Jerry Brown signed a list of bills focusing on climate change issues, some of which would expand support for electric cars.  I’ve seen some in the EV community applaud these moves, but I see a mixed bag of some things which might be useful and…

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Orange County Biz Council applauds CALTRANS effort to preserve sprawl

July 26, 2014 July 20, 2015

The Los Angeles area is infamous for sprawl, huge giga-highways, bad air conditions, and people stuck in gridlocked cars for hours at a time.  The success of the automobile as a transportation method has led to, in the U.S., a massive system of highways, cities designed for the benefit of…

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US Highway System funding crisis means rethinking the system, we must make big changes

May 3, 2014 March 31, 2015

The U.S. is saddled with an extensive highway system and a car-dominated transportation landscape.  Under current policies the federal Highway Trust Fund is the primary funding source for the Interstate Highway System, and it’s about to run out of money.  The balance will go to $0 by July or August…

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Virginia Governor proposes eliminating gasoline tax, raising taxes on electric cars

January 10, 2013 March 31, 2015

On Tuesday (Jan 8, 2013) Virginia Governor Bob McDonnell (a.k.a. “Governor Ultrasound”) proposed to eliminate the gasoline tax, raise sales taxes, raise some other taxes, in an effort to shore up Virginia’s transportation budget.  In part the causative factor is the rise of fuel efficient hybrid and electric vehicles, and…

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Transportation infrastructure creates JOBS that America needs, and cements in place certain transportation choices

December 10, 2011 March 31, 2015

There are a pair of competing needs in America.  One is for JOBS – the other is to transform the transportation system.  Many are offering rehabilitation of the transportation system as the key to providing JOBS.  The rush to create JOBS via infrastructure development could make us miss out on…

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