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Florida’s JTA Retasks Public Buses as Mobile Vaccine Centers The Jacksonville Transportation Authority has retrofitted two of its 40-foot buses as mobile vaccination centers, traveling to neighborhood churches and community gathering spots to administer the COVID-19 vaccine. The Jacksonville Transportation Authority (JTA) has outfitted two of its buses as mobile vaccination centers. Image Courtesy of the Jacksonville Transportation Authority The COVID-19 vaccine is coming into Florida neighborhoods; and transit is bringing it. Buses from the Jacksonville Tra...

To get more cities to finally reform their outdated parking standards, we need to stop talking about “taking away” spots and focus on what we all stand to gain, like an accelerated path to ending climate change. That’s one of the findings of a new report from the Institute for Transportation Development and Policy, which examines the perennial question of how to build support for common-sense parking reforms, such as rationally pricing spaces, removing minimum parking requirements for developers, and more readily allowing residents to use empty curbside asphalt for literally anything el...

Skip to main content Currently Reading Oakland's Mills College will stop granting degrees, ending 169-year run for women's school: 'Loss and grief' FacebookTwitterEmail 1of2 Mills College, an Oakland institution founded in 1852, said it is stopping enrollment and will confer its final degrees in 2023.Michael Macor / The ChronicleShow MoreShow Less 2of2 Oakland’s Mills College, one of 34 women’s campuses in the U.S., has suffered budget problems and declining enrollment.Michael Macor / The Chronicle 2017Show MoreShow Less Mills College in Oakland, 169 years old and one of just 34 women’...

Hudson Reporter × The city held a virtual public meeting of the draft Vision Zero Action Plan on Jan. 13. After months of planning and research, Hoboken released its draft Zero Action Plan that aims to eliminate all traffic-related injuries and deaths in Hoboken by 2030. “Hoboken is committed to creating safer streets for all users, and our Vision Zero Action Plan will create the roadmap to make this a reality,” said Mayor Ravi Bhalla. “At the same time, we aren’t just waiting for the plan to achieve zero pedestrian injuries or fatalities; we’ve implemented a number of...

WHYY By Snow falls at City Hall on Dec. 16, 2020. (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY) The SEPTA board greenlit a $3 million contract for the San Francisco-based firm Nelson/Nygaard Consulting Associates to oversee its Comprehensive Bus Network Redesign on Thursday. Set to kick off in 2021, the project is expected to run over the next three years.  Over that time, the firm will analyze the current bus network, design a new network, conduct public outreach and oversee its implementation. “What set Nelson/Nygaard apart is their track record,” said Jen Dougherty, manager of long range planning for SEPTA...