Today’s Headlines
- America’s Boulevards of Death (Governing)
- Hawaii, still at the vanguard of criminalizing walking, removes crosswalks in the name of “safety” (Civil Beat)
- Like Pokemon Go, but you get paid: Bird hunting to charge e-scooters (The Atlantic)
- West Sacramento plans to become the smartest city in America (StateScoop)
- To fight climate change, California must fight inequality (Earther)
- Growing costs slow new housing in California (SPUR)
- The fateful vote that made New York City rents so high (ProPublica)
- How I (we) caused the California housing crisis (Bloomberg)
- The problem with opportunity zones (CityLab)
- Whole categories of jobs are being pushed out of expensive cities (CityLab)
- Protecting communities from rising sea level: ideas for the Bay Area (Curbed)
More California headlines at Streetsblog LA and Streetsblog SF
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Metro Still Planning 605 Freeway Widening Mega-Project, Additional $46.9M Slated to be Approved This Week
Metro and Caltrans are planning a $4B+ highway expansion mega-project that would widen 15 miles of the 605 Freeway, plus several adjacent stretches of the 5, 10, 60, and 105 Freeways
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