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What does BACA do? Part VII

Proposed CEQA ballot initiative would cover a wide range of projects, not just housing and clean energy.

This is the seventh in a series of blog posts on the California Chamber of Commerce’s proposed ballot initiative amending the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA).  The first blog post is here.  The second blog post is here.  The third blog post is here.  The fourth blog post is here.  The fifth blog post is …

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My 2011 Hamilton Project Paper on U.S Transport Infrastructure Investment

The blogosphere appears to have taken an interest in my 2011 Brookings Institution Hamilton Project  paper (joint with David Levinson) focused on improving the rate of return on U.S investment in transportation infrastructure. Here is the Executive Summary:  “The roads and bridges that make up our nation’s highway infrastructure are in disrepair as a result …

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Obama on Transportation, Land Use and Energy Use

Stunning news from the White House: we actually have a US president who understands the connection between land use patterns and energy use. Obama’s stimulus bill was weak on spending for transit projects (as opposed to highway projects). But that was because it was a bill about jobs, and more highway projects just happened to …

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