In Spring, a particle physicist colleague wrote a blog about teaching Claude his voice so that it can take a first pass at editing papers that he is co-author on but were drafted by one of his collaborators, often early career scientists. I see how it could save time but also our job is to teach

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If you are curious if they accounted for Induced Demand, they did They expect the project to lead to 10% more vehicle miles traveled (~54 Million more miles driven each year) So that would equate to a 3 to 5% drop in emissions per mile drive combined with an overall 10% increase in miles driven...

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Instead, our choices are to keep CEQA as it currently exists and continuing to refine it for environmentally beneficial projects (which the legislature is doing!), or gut it for everything, which is the Prop 45 strategy. Option 1 is obviously the better choice.

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The main argument I've seen from urbanists supporting Prop 45 is that we should ban sprawl & freeway expansions through other means instead of using CEQA to delay them to death. Of course, this entirely ignores that the industry groups backing 45 would steamroll any effort to actually do so!

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A nit: this is partly "urban planning" (as the article says), but predominantly "transportation planning." What's the difference? -different gov't entities (municipal land use authority vs. state transportation agency) -different professionals w/ different cultures (planners vs. traffic engineers)

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