Home › News ›

California Governor's Bypass Of Transit Planning Scheme Crashes

Posted by: Chris Steins
Thanks to: Paul Shigley
7 August 2003 - 3:00pm

California Governor Davis' Transportation Congestion Relief Program appears to be self-destructing, along with the entire system of funding state transportation projects.

"The transportation funding mess has been brought into focus by an extraordinary recent report from the state auditor, who found that both Davis’s congestion relief fund and the State Highway Account — the chief funding source for road projects created by a mixture of revenues — are about to go negative. The California Transportation Commission has already reduced State Transportation Improvement Program (STIP) allocations by $3 billion this year in an attempt to plug the gap, meaning that both the governor's pet projects and most of the regular STIP projects are now stalled."

Full Story: Governor's Bypass of Transit, Highway Planning Scheme Crashes
Source: California Planning and Development Report, August 7, 2003
»
Bookmark and Share
“
New Suburbanism is not a new design paradigm that seeks to compete with or discredit principles of New Urbanism. Instead, our perspective represents a broad-based attempt to find the best, most practical ways to develop and redevelop suburban communities.
”