Today’s Headlines
More California headlines at Streetsblog LA and Streetsblog SF
8:35 AM PST on February 22, 2017
- A history of urban highways, and of who matters (Strong Towns)
- The story of Caltrain electrification, meddling Republican Congressmembers, and the federal government:
- Feds waver (KTVU)
- Now it’s the whole high-speed rail program that got stopped (Governing)
- Caltrain pushes back (The Hill)
- Caltrain launches a petition begging the DOT to reconsider (SF Examiner)
- And where is electrification warranted? Everywhere (Pedestrian Observations)
- Op-Ed: Republican transportation funding plan makes sense: we shouldn’t have to pay a cent to keep building roads (Desert Dispatch)
- Op-Ed: Whatever, just fix the transportation system already (Bakersfield.com)
- Cooling down urban areas: more trees, fewer cars (Guardian)
More California headlines at Streetsblog LA and Streetsblog SF
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