El Dorado County Transportation Articles

In a destination known for million dollar views and SUVs named after it, some may not know that a significant demographic has a hard time getting around Lake Tahoe. That's according to the almost 90...

SOUTH LAKE TAHOE, Calif.— The inaugural Lake Tahoe Electric Transportation Summit was held at Lake Tahoe Community College on Friday, Sept. 29, bringing together community members, business owners, and agency leaders to discuss the importance...

Mountaineer, which provides free, on-demand winter transportation in Olympic Valley and Alpine Meadows, will expand its operating schedule for the 2023-24 winter season. Passengers may request rides through the Mountaineer app.

What started as a protest rolling into City Council’s regular meeting to oppose Caltrans’ proposed speed limit increases, has turned into something much bigger. As a result, the worldwide phenomenon, Critical Mass, has returned to the city of South Lake …

Now that electric cars are mainstream, higher-income Californians will no longer qualify for state subsidies. Lower-income buyers could get up to $12,000.

The Eastern Sierra Towns to Trails Plan, which will identify a multi-use trail network that will connect Eastern Sierra communities to each other and to public lands throughout the region, seeks stakeholder input

As the popularity of electric bikes continues to skyrocket, the California Highway Patrol is launching an online e-bike safety and training program to help keep commuters and recreational cyclists safe.

Caltrans has agreed to keep existing speed limits along US 50 and SR 89. The speed zones where prevailing speeds justify speed limits will remain and be certified into law for the next 14 years.

Through bidirectional charging, owners of electric cars can sell energy to the grid or use it to power their homes. But will the technology, which is costly, become widespread?

PBS’s ViewFinder offers the origins of the Lincoln Highway, the country’s first cross-country road.

Palisades Tahoe will implement a traffic and parking solution on weekends and holidays to minimize arrival and departure traffic for the 2023-24 winter season, according to a press release. The resort will introduce a mix of free and reserve-in-advance, paid-parking …

The nonprofit Highway 50 Association is holding its 74th annual reenactment of the Great Western Migration through June 10.

Motorists often take Interstate 80 for granted, the year-round, trans-Sierra highway that crosses the mountain range at Donner Pass, except of course when it’s shut down for hours or days by winter storms. It is a quick link between markedly …

Sit in the slow crawl of winter weekend traffic and the need to reduce vehicles in Truckee and Tahoe is apparent. Sure, you can take the Tahoe Area Regional Transit (TART) bus to the resorts from most places around the …

California lawmakers are exploring ways to reconnect urban neighborhoods torn asunder during the interstate highway construction boom of the 1950s and ’60s.

As California and the nation narrowly averted the first railroad strike in 30 years, here's a look at how damaging rail strikes have happened before, from the 19th century to today.

The Vision Zero program sets a goal for California cities to eliminate traffic fatalities, but almost a decade into the effort, the goal remains distant, and horrific tragedies on the road continue to stack up.

For half a century, this group has reduced waste, reimagined local transportation and redesigned buildings. It’s all part of Ecology Action’s quest for sustainability.

Putting more electric trucks and buses on California roads will improve air quality and grow local jobs. But for many fleets, the transition to electric will require innovative policy and finance solutions to get the job done on pace with …

South Shore visitors and residents are getting a free, on-demand, app-based, door-to-door service with the launch of Lake Link, a microtransit shuttle system. The shuttles can carry nine to 12 passengers, have wheelchair accessibility and are equipped with bike and …