Caltrans Awards $51.4 Million for Sustainable Transportation Projects to Strengthen California’s Climate Resilience
Press release from Caltrans:
What you need to know: Caltrans is awarding more than $51 million in planning grants to 89 projects to help make the state’s transportation system more resilient to the impacts of climate change. Of the total, $48.3 million (94 percent) will benefit disadvantaged communities.
SACRAMENTO — With a majority of funding coming from Governor Gavin Newsom’s clean transportation infrastructure package and the California Climate Commitment, Caltrans today awarded $51.4 million in planning grants for 89 sustainable, climate-resilient transportation projects throughout California to help communities better withstand the impacts of extreme weather events fueled by climate change.
The selected projects will help reduce planet-warming pollution, improve resiliency of the state highway system, enhance access to safe walkways and bike paths, and expand natural disaster preparedness. Nearly $29 million comes from one-time state and federal sources made possible by Governor Newsom’s historic $15 billion clean transportation package in the 2022-23 state budget to further the state’s ambitious climate goals. Another $12.4 million comes from Senate Bill (SB) 1, the Road Repair and Accountability Act of 2017. The awards will fund project planning and conceptual design efforts, helping move the projects closer to construction.
“California is at the forefront of planning transportation projects built to help underserved communities withstand the effects of climate change,” said Caltrans Director Tony Tavares. “By working closely with local partners, we can maintain a sustainable, adaptable and resilient transportation system that will serve all Californians far into the future.”
In total, Caltrans will fund:
- $28.8 million in Climate Adaptation Planning Grants – all from Governor Newsom’s clean transportation infrastructure package – to 30 local, regional and transit agencies to identify transportation-related climate vulnerabilities through the development of climate adaptation plans, as well as project-level adaptation planning to address climate impacts to transportation infrastructure. Ninety-seven percent of these projects will benefit disadvantaged communities.
- $19.2 million in Sustainable Communities Competitive and Technical Grants to 50 local, regional and transit agencies for transportation and land use planning, as well as planning for electric vehicle charging infrastructure. This includes more than $6 million to fund planning for 16 projects that improve safety and access for people who walk and bike. Ninety-two percent of these projects will benefit disadvantaged communities.
- $3.4 million in federally funded Strategic Partnerships Grants to nine projects that will plan for managed lanes, training and certification for local elected officials, comprehensive multimodal corridors, transit network and comprehensive operational analyses, improve interregional ADA paratransit coordination, develop airport passenger transportation recommendations, develop a zero-emissions bus fleet, coordinate multimodal transportation and land use compatibility.
View the complete list of this year’s planning grant project awardees. [Projects in Humboldt, Del Norte, Mendocino, Lake Counties funded]
Caltrans awards transportation planning grants each year through a competitive process to encourage local and regional projects. Applications are evaluated on how projects advance state transportation and climate goals by identifying and addressing statewide, interregional, or regional transportation deficiencies on the highway system. The grant program began in the 2015-16 fiscal year. Since then, Caltrans has awarded 685 planning grants totaling $266 million, and more than 60 percent of those projects have been completed.
SB 1 provides $5 billion in transportation funding annually that is shared between state and local agencies. Road projects progress through construction phases more quickly based on the availability of SB 1 funds, including projects that are partially funded by SB 1.
Find more projects that are building California’s climate-friendly future at build.ca.gov and RebuildingCA.ca.gov.
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Putting the label ”climate change” on everything makes everyone all safe and happy. Kind of like going to the grocery store and only buying products in a green container. Suckers.
The real question is where did all this money come from? 20000+ caltrans employees and most will vote for Newsom, because he keeps them employed. But where did the money come form?……………
A drop in the bucket, and no matter what we do, the climate isn’t going to change back…
California Roadways are a disgrace, an insult to the concept of road maintenance…
CalTrans specializes in wasting resources, moving at a snail’s pace until the Fiscal Year starts, and promising development that CT is not capable of delivering…
Retired CalTrans employees are sucking down your gasoline taxes, every day…
They were building roads, in 1970, but not really since. Sections of Highway 99 are still two lane, and Highway 20 will be rerouted to 53 and 29, but it will probably not be completed in my lifetime, or maybe your Grandchildren’s…
Electric Cars will become 15% of personal vehicles, but it will level off due to cost, reliability, lack of charging infrastructure and the pollution required to produce Copper, Lithium and other metals…
Fixing the environment is a promise that every person on the planet will have to commit to, and this will likely never occur…
Sorry, no; CT has been pointlessly widening freeways in L.A. for decades. That’s not nothing; it’s horribly destructive, but it’s not nothing.
I simply couldn’t care less about SoCal. I never go there.
Here are some columns, one about Tesla I liked…
https://www.sfgate.com/tech/article/drew-magary-cybertruck-review-sf-19561381.php
CalTrans is good a leaning on shovels and taking vacations, and hiring Contractors to build whatever does get built…
I think we should buy CalTrans some Teslas and force them to turn in their Priuses…
Lots of heat records being broken.
Are you positive climate change is a farce?
132 in furnace creek yesterday.
I suggest you examine records from the 1930s, or for that matter, the mid 70s. How do you think Furnace Creek got its name?
Global Warming and/or Climate Change hadn’t been invented yet in the 1930’s. In the 70’s The impending “New Ice Age” was all the rage kinda like the Village People in the 90’s and Taylor now!
Man caused climate change is a fraud perpetuated by the Democrat Party to hold the Ring. Natural climate change cannot be fixed because it isn’t broken. The devious ones who are politicians know this but capitalize on most Americans being Science illiterates. They also focus on children knowing they are ignorant naive, and scare easily. This is a really scummy move because it doesn’t take a village to raise a kid, it takes a parent and family. I don’t want Biden or his cult followers near any kid filling their empty heads with Mal Information so they can become future red guards for the Party.
Don’t allow political scientists to piss down your leg while informing you it’s raining yellow water from the sky.
Well said
134 in 1934
Don’t forget “Organic Food Products” from China!
Yeah, let’s piss another 51 million dollars away brainstorming ideas that will never happen, instead of actually fixing the roads… And people wonder why the state and country are broke.
This state is doing the same thing with driving as they did with guns and housing, they are trying to over regulate and price the average person out of the ability to do so.
So far – going back over twenty years – the one and only measurable effect all of California’s *climate initiatives* have had is to raise energy prices. The climate is totally unaffected.
It’s like putting a Bandaid on skin cancer.
Unless we treat the whole problem, we’re not going to be successful.
The “problem” is pretending to fix a problem that doesn’t exist. For what you say, to steal money from productive Californians, that’s what.
It’s interesting to see people ignore the facts about the existence of something so they can make the claim that it doesn’t exist.
What does exist is an excuse to raise taxes and change the power infrastructure from big oIL to big wind and solar.
Also called investing in jobs to build a better future.
after all, we use taxes to support destructive, polluting energy sources.
We can all agree that “we” ie.: the Government uses taxes to support all kinds of destruction! I guess we all supposed to throw our hands in the air and say “After all…” You sure you weren’t on the debate advisory and come up with “I beat Medicare”?
Not hardly. They use tax money to pay all the unnecessary government employees and retired government employees
So what you are sayin about ignoring the facts is like making a claim like the cost effectiveness of say ‘lectric producing windmills that only last 30 – 50 years (tops) in 1000 feet of water off Eureka and then become dead offshore totems.
I never said anything about the financial costs of offshore wind turbines.
I only said that all available evidence shows them to be a good source of clean, renewable energy.
Although, the cost of wind energy is dropping rapidly, and the environmental and health costs of fossil fuels are unacceptably high.
I also don’t know why you’d jump to the conclusion that they’d become “dead offshore totems” after they age out.
Wouldn’t they be brought to shore to be recycled and/or properly disposed of?
Well they do produce “energy” – electricity. Last time I checked my Pg&E bill the cost was unacceptably high and the expensive offshore windmills haven’t even found cheap hydrogen boats to haul them out … and back after they die! Of course if they are cost effective means absolutely nothing when yer savin the world! And… no Jebs they wouldn’t make it back to shore. The company would tell everyone they were a positive for fish habitat like an artificial reef. The other alternative would be to have the taxpayers pick up the $bill$ like they do with dam removal. By the way, ya forgot to source yer facts. As usual we all supposed to accept what ya say as the gospel- I suppose. Lol! Oh yeah,how’s the recycling going on all the dead electric vehicle batteries going?
Your energy bill reflects the money you pay to PG&E and to fossil fuel companies. It’s interesting to hear people complain about Socialists wanting things to be subsidized only to then complain that they have to pay for things they use.
You also seem to keep barking up a rather silly tree when you suggest that the turbines would just be left in the ocean. That doesn’t make any sense either from an economic or from a legal standpoint.
Kym works really hard to maintain a website to bring you information so you don’t find yourself making such unfunded speculations.
It’s a shame that some people don’t even read the articles and instead seem to just come on here to complain.
https://kymkemp.com/2024/07/08/new-website-launched-to-answer-questions-and-combat-disinformation-about-offshore-wind/
Fixing a problem that isn’t a problem. Brilliant
>”Governor Newsom’s historic $15 billion clean transportation package in the 2022-2023 state budget to further the states’ ambitious climate goals.”
Yup. State is now broke.
California had ‘Covid’ infusions of about $600 billions of money from the US government.
California politicians thought they would ‘always be coming’… nope. State is now broke.
Yup. now we have $45 billion annual (or so) deficit.
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Hey… anybody wonder where massive inflation came from ?
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Mr. Clark forgot ‘resilient’. Couple it with climate and you’ve got a double-points winner.
>”… climate-resilient transportation projects throughout California to help communities better withstand the impacts of extreme weather events fueled by climate change.”
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Yes, Heck. Why not make paths to allow people to ride/walk in 114 degree weather !
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Go figure.
look forward to the $ .50 state gas tax next year, and increasing $ .50 per year, forever, unless we get a non-wackadoo as governor.
That
‘s a deliberate move to make it too expensive to use gasoline and diesel and your automobile. A real slimy chicken shit move From a real slimy Chicken shit governor.
Use it to fix the potholes.
Wow! Did AI write this piece? LOL How many uses of “climate-” this and that? And the buzz word, “resilience”.
Seriously, the gist of it seems worthy, however in today’s dollars, $51M isn’t going very far. The people receiving the funds surely will welcome, however.
The first three links take me to my gmail. The last three will take clickers and tappers through a tracking service, making the press release “click(/tap) bait.
Come on Miles, you can do MUCH better — I’ve seen it!
This is from Caltrans at the state level not our local District 1
Thanks Kym! Sorry Miles!
I think the state has a multi-story office building in Sacrament full of political ‘script writers’. They are kept busy by CalTrans, Bonta, Newsom… (etc.)
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Heck, I’m only kidding… they were replaced by a single computer running AI.
Miles, please do accept my sincere apologies for mistakenly attributing the state-level press release to you. I do feel lucky to have someone with your Journalistic Skills as the spokesperson for District 1.
And I’ve no doubt the State Spokesperson will improve. Apologies to you too.
And Kym, thank you once again for giving me Pause. I find it most difficult not to be influenced by reading all the negative comments on RHBB — I don’t know how you keep your positive attitude day after day after day! Experience I guess.
Apologies and thanks again Miles and Kym for your works!
Pause.
Another chunk of money that won’t be used to build or fix anything – it’s all being spent for planning grants.
Including the “training and certification of local elected officials” – that should be interesting!
No doubt Rex and Michelle could use a little training but who will be the trainers and what will be the training?
hey Caltrans , just make the roads safe and quit with the woke new green steal
This money is going to get us more things like turning 101 through arcata into a tunnel with a huge land bridge.
For college students to frolic. On.
Here’s an idea.
pave 101 through richardsons grove.
There you go , caltrans , please send me ten thousand dollars.
I got an idea:
Don’t let ANY rigs through RG…
Charge $5.00 per car to go North of Leggett, $20.00 for pickups, and $5000 for a Bobtail…
Then build a bypass, for rigs.
Send the truckers over 299, and fuck ’em if they don’t like it…
Sounds like you are really on-board with ‘Greater Idaho’ ! Move the boarder to the Humboldt county line… and close it !
Greater Idaho needs Humboldt Bay and Coos Bay as part of their expansion !
Rockport and Usal should be included in the new State of Sequoia, all the way to the Winchuck. That would be so great, they would never allow it. Sequoia, the newest State, 2025.
Have you seen the size of pickups and SUVs these days?? $100 at least.
101 is already paved through Richardson Grove.
Can anyone translate our project description? It’s titled: Humboldt Partnering Assets & Authorities for Comprehensive Transit (PAACT)
I thought HCAOG and HTA already had a strong working relationship? Whatever it is, they’re getting $479,500 for it.