Today’s Headlines

8:40 AM PST on November 29, 2018

Catastrophic and cascading health risks from climate change are already here (NY Times)
710 freeway extension is officially dead (Pasadena Now)
US DOT releases $281 million for transit projects (Mass Transit)
- That's $100 million for LA's Purple Line, and $80 million for San Diego Mid-Coast Light Rail (KSBY)
- Is the federal mass transit program in the red? (Eno Transportation Weekly)
Meet the artist installing much-needed benches at LA bus stops (LA Times)
This atlas maps and ranks transit in U.S. cities (CityLab)
What happens when your bike is stolen (Greater Greater Washington)
Cities prepare for catastrophic amounts of rain (Yale Climate Connections)
Bird to let entrepreneurs manage their own e-scooter fleets (SmartCitiesDive)
Boulder on the highway! (Modesto Bee)
The need to make money from underused parking lots (Route Fifty)

More California headlines at Streetsblog LA and Streetsblog SF

Streetsblog California editor Melanie Curry has been thinking about transportation, and how to improve conditions for bicyclists, ever since commuting to school by bike long before bike lanes were a thing. She was Managing Editor at the East Bay Express, editor of Access Magazine for the University of California Transportation Center, and earned her Masters in City Planning from UC Berkeley.

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