Today’s Headlines
More California headlines at Streetsblog LA and Streetsblog SF
8:25 AM PST on February 19, 2016
- High speed rail to focus on route to San Jose first, not L.A. (San Jose Mercury News)
- Valley farmers and others oppose initiative to use HSR money for water projects (Fresno Bee)
- High speed rail faces challenges (Monterey Herald)
- What a merger of the Bay Area’s two regional agencies could mean (KQED)
- The Bay Area’s coming freeway revolution (Planetizen)
- Modesto area struggles to decide which road projects to finish or abandon (Modesto Bee)
- Interview with Vince Bertoni, L.A.’s new head of City Planning (The Planning Report)
- Volunteer to help CA figure out how to replace the gas tax (Fox and Hounds)
- Can startups convince Americans to carpool? (Bloomberg)
- Smartphones don’t kill pedestrians, cars do (Gizmodo)
More California headlines at Streetsblog LA and Streetsblog SF
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