So Cal History
This postwar decade saw the most rapid expansion of the Southern California freeway system.
What is the 1950s?
This federal law requires agencies to prepare Environmental Impact Statements for projects with significant environmental effects.
What is the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA)?
This athlete has won the most medals in Olympic history.
Who is Michael Phelps?
This Caltrans Director's Policy directs Caltrans staff to support, and, to the extent feasible and practicable, incorporate transit priority facilities within the State Highway System (SHS).
What is DP-40 (Transit)?
Equipped with a flying skateboard and sneakers with self-lacing technology, this character travelled through time with the help of Dr. Emmett Brown and a suped-up Delorean.
Who is Marty McFly?
This State Route (also an Orange County expressway) was named in honor of a man infamously known for his role in the political scandal - Watergate.
What is State Route 90/Richard M. Nixon Freeway?
A planning approach that emphasizes compact development, walkability, mixed land uses, and traditional neighborhood design.
What is New Urbanism?
This boxing legend lit the Olympic cauldron in the 1996 Atlanta Games.
Who is Muhammad Ali/Cassius Clay?
This Executive Order (EO) directed all state agencies to leverage their existing investments, spending, and/or state-owned buildings to further CA's climate goals. This was one of the key policies that led to the development of CalSTA's Climate Action Plan for Transportation Infrastructure (CAPTI).
What is EO N-19-19?
This 'Miseducated' Grammy Award winner became the first hip-hop artist to win the Grammy for Album of the Year in 1994.
Who is Lauryn Hill?
This Southern California freeway, one of the earliest in the state, opened in 1940. This route is now designated as a "California Historic Parkway" with decorative features that include four Art Deco tunnels.
What is the Arroyo Seco Parkway (State Route 110)?
This public participation technique is an intensive, small‑group method used to build consensus on complex topics.
What are Charrettes?
In 2024, the French nicknamed this American athlete "The Devil" after the French were 'put to bed' in the Gold Medal game.
Who is Wardell Stephen Curry?
In addition to the creation of new discretionary programs, Senate Bill 1 (Road Repair and Accountability Act of 2017) resulted in the augmentation of these three - previously existing - funding programs.
What are ATP, SHOPP, and STIP?
In 2020, this South Korean film became the first non‑English movie to win the Oscar for Best Picture.
What is Parasite?
This iconic freeway interchange, completed in 1953, runs through the heart of Downtown Los Angeles and has become a symbol of LA’s car‑centric design. It was the first stack interchange ever constructed in the world.
What is the US 101/I-110 Interchange/Four Level Interchange/The Stack?
A planning document that implements the goals and policies of the General Plan. These plans contain detailed development standards and implementation measures to which future projects located within a specified geographic area must adhere.
What is a Specific Plan?
In 1992, this athlete became the first Asian American to win a gold medal in a Winter Olympic competition.
Who is Kristi Yamaguchi?
This Senate Bill, effective in 2008, required each MPO to include a “Sustainable Communities Strategy” in the regional transportation plan. The goal of this bill was to create a unified framework that considered regional allocation of housing needs and regional transportation planning to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from motor vehicle trips.
What is SB 375?
In 2014, the Ice Bucket Challenge became a viral social media trend, which helped raise awareness for this disease.
What is ALS (Lou Gehrig's Disease)?
This rail‑to‑port freight corridor opened in 2002 and dramatically improved goods movement efficiency between downtown Los Angeles and the ports.
What is the Alameda Corridor?
Every transportation/land use model follow these four critical steps in a sequential procedure.
Note: Full transparency, I will accept 3 out of 4.
What are Trip Generation, Trip Distribution, Modal Split, and Traffic Assignment?
This city is the only city that has had the privilege of hosting the Olympics three times.
What is London?
This Senate Bill, effective in 2018, required local governments to identify environmental justice communities (called "disadvantaged communities") in their jurisdictions and address environmental justice in their general plans.
SB 1000
In 1993, this cult-classic video game pioneered the First-Person Shooter genre. This game also introduced new features such as third-dimensional spatiality and networked multiplayer gameplay.
What is Doom?