Urban Growth
A process of higher-income groups moving back into the downtown core, pushing lower-income groups out.
What is Gentrification?
The release of harmful chemicals into the environment that degrades the land, water, or air.
What is pollution?
A bicycle facility that utilizes road markings to indicate a shared lane environment for bicycles and automobiles. This type of facility is also known as a Class III.
What are sharrows?
SHS
The 34th Director of the Department of Transportation (Caltrans) by Governor Gavin Newsom and sworn in June 2022.
Who is Tony Tavares?
The rapid expansion of the geographic extent of cities and towns, often characterized by low-density residential housing, single-use zoning, and increased reliance on the private automobile for transportation.
What is Urban Sprawl?
Examples of this are homelessness, unemployment, hunger, inadequate housing, and unclean water supply.
What is poverty?
The Regional Transportation Planning Agency for Orange County.
What is SCAG?
MPO
What is a Metropolitan Planning Organization?
What is SB 743?
A mixed-use, higher-density development located adjacent to frequent transit.
What is transit-oriented development?
Fog that has been mixed with smoke and other environmental pollutants.
What is smog?
Popularized by Elon Musk, this transportation concept utilizes a network of tunnels and sealed low-pressure systems.
What is the Hyperloop?
SHOPP
What is the State Highway Operation and Protection Program?
Constructed in the early 1960s, this highly scrutinized freeway interchange project once bisected the vibrant community of Boyle Heights. Four routes converge at the interchange: US 101, I-5, I-10, and SR 60.
What is the East LA Interchange?
We began to see an increase in urban growth, during this revolution.
What is the Industrial Revolution?
Areas throughout California which most suffer from a combination of economic, health, and environmental burdens.
What are disadvantaged communities?
The Pacific Electric Railway Company was a privately owned mass transit system in Southern California consisting of electrically powered streetcars, interurban cars, and buses and was the largest electric railway system in the world in the 1920s.
What is the 'Red Car'
TPSIS
What is the Transportation Planning Scoping Information Sheet?
A Program created by Senate Bill 99 and Assembly Bill 101 to encourage increased use of active modes of transportation such as biking and walking. A primary means of achieving this increased use is through the administration of a discretionary funding program.
What is the Active Transportation Program?
Development within unused and underutilized lands within existing development patterns, typically but not exclusively in urban areas.
What is infill development?
A discriminatory practice in which services are withheld from potential customers who reside in neighborhoods classified as "hazardous" to investment; these neighborhoods have significant numbers of racial and ethnic minorities, and low-income residents.
What is redlining?
A system of train transportation that uses two sets of electromagnets: one set to repel and push the train up off the track, and another set to move the elevated train ahead, taking advantage of the lack of friction.
What is maglev?
FONSI
What is the Findings of No Significant Impact?
In 1989, the Loma Prieta earthquake significantly damaged this San Francisco freeway resulting in its ultimate demise. Through urban revitalization, this corridor is now enjoyed by families as a complete streets thoroughfare to access the Ferry Building and Oracle Park - home to the SF Giants.
What is the Embarcadero Freeway?