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Guest Commentary: I-80 News – Two Projects on Causeway; DEIR Release; Woodland – Traffic Congregation Not Relevant in EIR

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|Date: September 11, 2023
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Guest Commentary: I-80 News – Two Projects on Causeway; DEIR Release; Woodland – Traffic Congregation Not Relevant in EIR

By Alan Hirsch All the week's News on I-80, as best I understand it. The Headlines. Draft EIR out Monda ...

By Alan Hirsch All the week's News on I-80, as best I understand it. The Headlines. Draft EIR out Monday(?) – YoloTD Board meeting comments needed Two projects on causeway at once! Pavement Rehab i ...

September 11, 2023
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Guest Commentary: Climate Science Wars Come to Davis

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|Date: July 29, 2023
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Guest Commentary: Climate Science Wars Come to Davis

I-80 Elected Ignore UC Davis Studies By Alan Hirsch Will personal experience and intuition triumph over d ...

I-80 Elected Ignore UC Davis Studies By Alan Hirsch Will personal experience and intuition triumph over decades of research from universities across the county? That is the issue surrounding how to de ...

July 29, 2023
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GUEST COMMENTARY: Confirmation Bias and City Council Culture

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|Date: July 24, 2023
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GUEST COMMENTARY: Confirmation Bias and City Council Culture

Can we learn anything from Davis History? By Alan Hirsch The Davis Council on 7/18 approved building a $4 ...

Can we learn anything from Davis History? By Alan Hirsch The Davis Council on 7/18 approved building a $400,000 design of the shade structure in Arroyo Park—just for picnic tables. This high cost ha ...

July 24, 2023
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Breaking: Yolo I-80 Widening Not Funded!

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|Date: June 29, 2023
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Breaking: Yolo I-80 Widening Not Funded!

Advocates Who Steamrolled Project Scramble to Save It by Alan Hirsch The Yolo I-80 widening project was n ...

Advocates Who Steamrolled Project Scramble to Save It by Alan Hirsch The Yolo I-80 widening project was not given the missing 60% funds ($103 million) at the Wednesday 6/28 statewide California Transp ...

June 29, 2023
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Guest Commentary: Caltrans Games System to Get Another ‘Environmental’ Award for Highway Widening

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|Date: May 16, 2023
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Guest Commentary: Caltrans Games System to Get Another ‘Environmental’ Award for Highway Widening

Why actually try to fight global warming and make a more sustainable future when you can just lie about i ...

Why actually try to fight global warming and make a more sustainable future when you can just lie about it? By Roger Rudick The Caltrans division that handles the Bay Area received an “environmental” ...

May 16, 2023
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Monday Morning Thoughts: Reevaluating Whether We Should *Fix* Mace

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: March 20, 2023
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Monday Morning Thoughts: Reevaluating Whether We Should *Fix* Mace

By David M. Greenwald Executive Editor Davis, CA – In 2019, the year before the pandemic, the completion ...

By David M. Greenwald Executive Editor Davis, CA – In 2019, the year before the pandemic, the completion of the Mace Redesign saw the corridor snarled in standstill traffic. Quickly, at least in the ...

March 20, 2023
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Council Set to Approve a Mace Blvd Redesign Plan

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: March 18, 2023
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Council Set to Approve a Mace Blvd Redesign Plan

By David M. Greenwald Executive Editor Davis, CA – Several years have passed with a pandemic in between s ...

By David M. Greenwald Executive Editor Davis, CA – Several years have passed with a pandemic in between since the issue of the Mace Blvd. redesign first came up and community members expressed concern ...

March 18, 2023
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Monday Morning Thoughts: Mace Solution Represents a Good Balance, We’ll See the Result

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: January 24, 2022
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Monday Morning Thoughts: Mace Solution Represents a Good Balance, We’ll See the Result

By David M. Greenwald Everyday Injustice Davis, CA – The new proposed configuration for Mace seems like a ...

By David M. Greenwald Everyday Injustice Davis, CA – The new proposed configuration for Mace seems like a reasonable arrangement—it eventually adds traffic lanes both north and southbound while still ...

January 24, 2022
| by David Greenwald

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City Laid Out a Reconfigured Mace Blvd on Thursday; Now Goes to Council

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: January 23, 2022
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City Laid Out a Reconfigured Mace Blvd on Thursday; Now Goes to Council

By David M. Greenwald Executive Editor At a community meeting on Thursday, the city presented a newly-con ...

By David M. Greenwald Executive Editor At a community meeting on Thursday, the city presented a newly-configured plan for Mace Blvd., south of Chiles. The plan restores the road to four vehicle lanes ...

January 23, 2022
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Guest Commentary: DISC Traffic Problems and Associated Vehicular Emissions Will not Be Solved by the Proposed I-80 HOV Lane Expansion

Posted by Vanguard Administrator
|Date: November 05, 2021
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Guest Commentary: DISC Traffic Problems and Associated Vehicular Emissions Will not Be Solved by the Proposed I-80 HOV Lane Expansion

Myths and Facts about Impacts of Freeway Lane Expansions on Traffic Congestion and Adoption Rates of Elec ...

Myths and Facts about Impacts of Freeway Lane Expansions on Traffic Congestion and Adoption Rates of Electric Vehicles By Alan Pryor Proponents of the proposed DISC project claim that the projected tr ...

November 05, 2021
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My View: We Need a Strategic Vision for Transportation Not More Band-Aids

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: July 03, 2021
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My View: We Need a Strategic Vision for Transportation Not More Band-Aids

By David M. Greenwald Davis, CA – I have been troubled by the approach to Mace Blvd. for some time. But ...

By David M. Greenwald Davis, CA – I have been troubled by the approach to Mace Blvd. for some time. But this week when the nearly $86 million federal grant to improve the I-80 Corridor in Yolo County ...

July 03, 2021
| by David Greenwald

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Sunday Commentary: Mace Mess Not So Messy Right Now

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: January 26, 2020
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Sunday Commentary: Mace Mess Not So Messy Right Now

When the issue of fixing the Mace Boulevard redesign finally went before the city council, they went with ...

When the issue of fixing the Mace Boulevard redesign finally went before the city council, they went with a compromise – attempting to keep the bicycle-friendly design of Mace while restoring two vehi ...

January 26, 2020
| by David Greenwald

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My View: The Proposed Fixes by Caltrans May Not Correct Traffic Problems in Davis

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: November 23, 2019
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My View: The Proposed Fixes by Caltrans May Not Correct Traffic Problems in Davis

On Thursday Caltrans had an open house to discuss proposed fixes to the freeway. While the format of the ...

On Thursday Caltrans had an open house to discuss proposed fixes to the freeway. While the format of the meeting was less than desirable, the solution they offer does not appear to address the major ...

November 23, 2019
| by David Greenwald

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Caltrans Hosts Open House to Discuss Corridor Improvement Project

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: November 22, 2019
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Caltrans Hosts Open House to Discuss Corridor Improvement Project

It has gone from an afterthought to one of the biggest issues in town. The impact of I-80’s increased tr ...

It has gone from an afterthought to one of the biggest issues in town. The impact of I-80’s increased traffic and the increasing rate of cut-through traffic has led to more people using bypasses, exa ...

November 22, 2019
| by David Greenwald

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Monday Morning Thoughts: Friday Traffic Was a Bear and It’s Getting Worse

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: October 21, 2019
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Monday Morning Thoughts: Friday Traffic Was a Bear and It’s Getting Worse

A lot of blame got thrown the way of the city on reconfiguring Mace Boulevard, but as I pointed out in th ...

A lot of blame got thrown the way of the city on reconfiguring Mace Boulevard, but as I pointed out in the spring, traffic headed east and south on Covell onto Mace from Harper was backed up practical ...

October 21, 2019
| by David Greenwald

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City Looks to Improve Richards Boulevard Interchange

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: December 15, 2014
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City Looks to Improve Richards Boulevard Interchange

On the council agenda this week is a consent item that would allocate $160,000 in Roadway Impact Fee fund ...

On the council agenda this week is a consent item that would allocate $160,000 in Roadway Impact Fee funds to cover the estimated costs to prepare the Project Study Report and authorize initial work o ...

December 15, 2014
| by David Greenwald

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