Today’s Headlines

• 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