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Getting California's Mobility Back

August 26, 2008

Posted by David Pettit in Solving Global Warming

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ab32, airpollution, californiadriving, CEQA, gasprices, mileage, SB375, traffic, urbansprawl

I grew up in Los Angeles.  When I was a teenager and gasoline was 33 cents/gallon, getting your driver’s license and bumming your parents’ car meant mobility and freedom.There isn’t much mobility left in L.A.  The population has more than...continued

Not a Magic Bus

August 25, 2008

Posted by David Pettit in Environmental Justice

Tags:
buses, busriders, fossilfuel, gasprices, losangeles, lowincome, metrotransitauthority, publictransportation

Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Thomas McKnew ruled today against NRDC and NRDC’s client, the Bus Riders Union of Los Angeles (BRU), in a lawsuit brought against the L.A. Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) challenging on environmental grounds the MTA’s July,...continued

David Pettit
David Pettit
Director, Southern California Air Program
Santa Monica, CA
I grew up in the L.A. area and am a die-hard Dodgers and UCLA Bruins...
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