Vancouver City Council has approved a five-year Climate Emergency Action Plan (CEAP) which charts a path to reducing carbon emissions 50 percent by 2030. Of 19 defined actions, four ‘game changers’ have been identified to “significantly move the dial” on reducing carbon pollution from the city’s largest sources – buildings and transportation. Designed to work in conjunction with other measures, they are: Create a model to implement transport pricing in the Metro Core by 2025

The plan would have made working from home mandatory 60 percent of the time for office workers at large employers such as Apple, Facebook and Google. The Bay Area has dropped a plan to require office workers to telecommute permanently, a sign that there are limits to how much people will want to work from home once the Covid-19 pandemic passes. The Metropolitan Transportation Commission, a regional planning body, voted Friday to walk back its plan to make working from home ma

As coronavirus cases surge nationally, many scientific studies are reassuring essential workers that it’s largely safe to take public transportation (if they use basic precautions) — and reminding Washington that it’s past time to give transit agencies the relief they need. Despite an early panic that sent ridership plummeting and kept it low, public transportation has proved to be one of the most COVID-safe places to be outside the home. Scientists think that’s because many

U.S. cars and trucks, the source of 5 percent of world carbon emissions, have accounted for a whopping 20 percent of this year’s global dip in carbon pollution, according to comprehensive emissions data compiled by Carbon Monitor and recalculated by me for the Carbon Tax Center. During the first three quarters of 2020, a period that roughly coincides with lockdowns and other restrictions from the COVID-19 pandemic, the world’s emissions of carbon dioxide from burning fossil f

Even as peer transit agencies in New York and New Jersey step up their enforcement of mask-wearing, SEPTA maintains that it won’t start issuing fines or citations to people who don’t wear face coverings on buses, trains and trolleys. On Amtrak, you can get kicked off your train if you won’t cover your face. Mandated by New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo, the MTA began issuing $50 fines in September to riders who refused to wear a mask. The Port Authority adopted the same policy earli

King of Prussia Rail (KOP Rail) is a transformative transportation project connecting southeastern Pennsylvania’s three largest employment centers—Center City, University City and King of Prussia. Join SEPTA on Tuesday, December 1, 2020 from 7 - 8 PM for a webinar announcing King of Prussia Rail Project’s Refined Route, the five proposed stations and more! Refinements since 2017 include detailed engineering analysis of the rail alignment and guideway design, minor modific

As major American cities look for ways to lower carbon emissions, they’re looking to low-tech, low-cost bus lanes to help them. Here’s the case for why more cities should get on board. America has a bus problem: People aren't riding them. Despite buses’ potential for cooling the climate, cleaning up our air, and making our cities more livable, in the last three decades, U.S. bus ridership dropped off 17 percent. Reasons cited for the decline have included slow service and poo

A 10-day pilot project for a "bikeway" on two blocks of Windsor Avenue in Narberth will begin Friday, Nov. 20. Narberth is testing out a project that would make streets available and safe for cyclists, pedestrians, and vehicles. A 10-day protected "bikeway" pilot will being at 5 p.m. Friday, Nov. 20 along a portion of Windsor Avenue in Narberth. The pilot project will end at 8 a.m. Monday, Nov. 30. The borough is partnering with Delaware Valley Regional Planning Commission an