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100

You see the following sign when approaching this:



What is a Railroad?

100

California has the highest rate for this tax in the country, used to fund road repairs and development.

What is gas tax?

100

This Richard Rothstein book brought a new pallet to the history of redlining and physical segregation in America.

What is the Color of Law?

100

This bikeshare provider took over the streets of Davis in 2018

What is Jump Bike?

100

This early car was offered in only one color: black.

What is the Model-T?

200

The meaning of this sign

What is detour?

200

This is the commonly used nickname for the California Department of Transportation.

What is Caltrans?

200

Community activists in this California city stopped the construction of new roads during the Freeway Revolt which began in 1959

Where is the City of San Francisco?

200

This Davis Professor is also a member of the California Air Resources Board

Who is Dan Sperling?

200

 The Wright brothers, who built the first flying airplane, operated a shop for this other form of transportation first

What is a  Bike?

300

Fluorescent green signs are used on streets that are near this.

What are schools?

300

Unique to California, in slow moving traffic motorcycle travelers can do this to avoid stopping.

What is lane split OR lane share?

300

this activist/author took on Robert Moses and prevented the construction of the Lower Manhattan Expressway

Who is Jane Jacobs?

300

Davis started building its famous bike infrastructure after the university forbade students from bringing this with them to school.

What is a car?

300

In 2005, the world-wide motor vehicle population is estimated to have exceeded this number.

What is 1 billion?

400

When you see an interstate highway sign with an even number on it, you are traveling in one of these two possible directions.

What is east or west?

400

California has committed to making 100% of light duty vehicle sales this type of vehicle by 2035

What is Zero Emission Vehicle?

400

The Boston central artery tunnel project, commonly known by this other “large” name, buried a freeway to make room for a 1.5 mile linear park

What is The Big Dig?

400

Unitrans has the highest ridership per hour of any bus system in California, second only to this bus system.

What is Muni?

400

The first practically used "bicycles" were commonly called this.

What is "Velocipede"?

500

This mode-specific traffic signal was invented in Davis in 1996.

What is a bike signal?

500

California SB 743 shifted the measure of transportation impacts to vehicle miles traveled (VMT) from this well-known measure.

What is level of service OR LOS?

500

This section of Washington State Route 99 was a double decker nuisance to the Seattle waterfront until it was demolished in 2019.

What is the Alaskan Way Viaduct

500

The first official one of these in the United States was created in Davis in 1967.

What is a bike lane?

500

In 1902, the first one of these was issued to a driver.

What is a speeding ticket?