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Caltrans seeks PID Workload Management Branch Chief. Learn more about this position and other opportunities on the Planetizen Jobs Board.

Caltrans seeks Associate Climate Change Planner. Learn more about this position and other opportunities on the Planetizen Jobs Board.

Caltrans seeks District Grant Liaison. Learn more about this position and other opportunities on the Planetizen Jobs Board.

“The reports of my death are greatly exaggerated.” - Southern California Freeway Expansion

My concerns were repeatedly brushed off by my bosses, who seemed more concerned about getting the next widening project underway than following the law

Why was one of Caltrans' most staunch advocates for sanity within Caltrans "reassigned"?

And what state and regional agencies plan to do about it

Caltrans seeks Branch Chief, Visualizations and Reporting. Learn more about this position and other opportunities on the Planetizen Jobs Board.

“It was a political drive-by shooting.” That is how Jessy McCrary described the effect of a new expressway on his town in the early 1960s. “Overtown was killed, without any concern from those with political powers at the time.” Later in the same documentary, Divided Highways, an engineer who helped build interstates admits, “I’d be upset if I had to move because of a freeway.” Then he shrugs, and adds, “Some people have to suffer; that’s the way it is sometimes.” The fact th...