Skip to Content
Streetsblog California home
Streetsblog California home
Log In
Today's Headlines

Friday’s Headlines

Climate crisis costs estimated; Guerrilla bus stop benches spur city to install official ones; Cities are spending on streets and roads, but conditions are deteriorating anyway; More

More than half the BLAST program is unfinished. Compton Avenue in Watts. Photo by Joe Linton/Streetsblog

  • Study: Climate crisis will cost LA $$ billions (LA Times)
  • Guerrilla bus stop benches spur Berkeley to install official ones (NBC)
  • Avenal to conduct a walk audit (Your Central Valley)
  • SMART expects strong ridership increases (Press Democrat)
  • Sonoma highway interchange to get a roundabout (Caltrans, Sonoma News)
  • Bay Area monthly transportation stats (Bay Link)
  • Report: Cities are taking care of street and road maintenance, but conditions are still deteriorating (Courthouse News)
  • Governor, legislature get a start on dealing with state budget deficit (LA Times, CapRadio)
  • San Francisco sent homeless people away, but doesn't know where to (SF Standard)
  • Lawsuit challenges federal grant to keep California's last nuclear reactor going (AP News)

Find more California headlines at Streetsblog LA and Streetsblog SF

Stay in touch

Sign up for our free newsletter

More from Streetsblog California

CA Will Continue to Undermine its Climate Goals by Widening Highways

CTC approved funding to widen I-80, and a bill that would have reformed funding for freight corridors was killed by the Appropriations Committee

May 17, 2024

Op-Ed: This ‘Bike to Work’ Day, Let’s Pass Bold Policies to Support Cyclists

"It is hard to think of another mode of transportation that is a more powerful tool to meet [our challenges.]"

May 17, 2024

Metro Committee Approves $225M Cost Overrun for Westside Subway Section 1 Construction

Wilshire subway 4-mile extension section 1 (Western to La Cienega) budget swells from from $3.14B to $3.35B. Section construction is 91 percent done, now anticipated to open fall 2025

May 17, 2024

Talking Headways Podcast: An Update to Human Transit

Jarrett Walker on the release of the revised edition of his influential book Human Transit. 

May 17, 2024
See all posts