“We look at Monterey Bay as a whole, instead of looking at the ocean by itself and the land by itself,” Lanting said. “Our vision is that sea and land influence each other here in the Monterey Bay in a unique way.”
A nearly $40 million infusion of state funding for public transit and transit-oriented housing is good news for our community, says Lookout politics columnist Mike Rotkin. It will kick-start needed climate-friendly improvements, including a push to make our buses carbon-neutral and establish a “bus on shoulder” lane for Highway 1. Transit is the biggest cause of greenhouse gasses locally, so getting more people to ride buses and bikes is key. But we can’t be the national leader we want to be on par with cities like Boulder and Portland without even more money, he says. He suggests a small sales-tax increase to get us there.