San Mateo County’s economy has been thriving in recent years. But while the Peninsula has added jobs, we have not made the needed investments in transportation infrastructure to keep up. Traffic is a...
San Mateo County
06/14/2018
Update: On July 24, 2018, the San Mateo County Board of Supervisors voted unanimously (a week after the SamTrans Board did so) to approve the final investment plan and place a strong, forward-...
05/09/2018
This post was co-authored by Montzerrat Garcia Bedolla at Youth Leadership Institute and Chris Lepe.
Last summer, Alma, who is a senior at Half Moon Bay High School, had an internship...
04/27/2018
What are the transportation preferences and challenges of workers commuting in Silicon Valley, and how might a proposal like the Highway 101 Managed Lanes project be designed to meet their needs? How...
12/20/2017
The growing and interrelated transportation, affordability, and climate crises call for our communities and public agencies to set a high bar for new transportation investments.
The Highway 101...
10/20/2016
Our transportation system is stuck in 70 year-old thinking. We need innovation to win on climate and equity while solving our traffic mess.
California is a global climate leader with a focus...
05/04/2015
Cars on the Bay Bridge may move at a slow crawl, but the Bay Area’s transit agencies are picking up speed on their efforts to get more people moving with less traffic. As of last week, there are two...
04/10/2015
As the Bay Area’s economy has picked up, congestion on our highways has gotten noticeably worse.
In fact, San Francisco was recently named the second most-congested city in the United States, with...
03/13/2015
Our third annual Let’s Get Moving, Silicon Valley Summit may have been our best one yet!
Last Saturday, 200 people (advocates, planners, policy makers, students, and other community members) came...
03/03/2015
South San Francisco—known by locals as South City—has always been a predominantly working class community. Its identity as an industrial city is rooted in a long history of supporting labor unions,...
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