Today’s Headlines
- TODAY: CA Senate holds hearing on transportation funding; speak up for public transportation (TransForm)
- California Transportation Commission allocates $127M for transportation projects (Central Valley Business Journal)
- ...including $25M for freight, rail transit projects (RT&S)
- Op-ed: California's crumbling roads require bipartisan fix (Fresno Bee)
- Video: Caltrans experiments with paint to warn bikes of rumble strips
- Bluegogo bike-share company still plans to launch, “left message” with S.F. officials to begin discussion of its business plan (Mercury News) (KTVU)
- The nightmare begins: Trump freezes all EPA grants and contracts (ProPublica) and plans to ban the EPA from funding science (Business Insider) (Vox)
- The future of clean energy is California (Environmental Defense Fund)
- ICYMI: The hidden inequality of street design (Fast CoDesign)
- Rain brings mudslides, floods, road blocks, evacuations (Yahoo)
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