Today’s Headlines

8:47 AM PDT on April 2, 2019

US EPA decision makers are clearly not interested in precautionary principle, claim there is little evidence that bad air leads to early death (NPR)
Santa Maria tries out Open Streets (Noozhawk)
Duarte becomes first city in SoCal with an all-electric bus fleet (San Gabriel Valley Tribune)
Electric school buses are not as expensive as you might think (School Transportation News)
Tesla fined for emissions, hazardous waste (SF Chronicle)
A board game helps players re-envision a BART parking lot (Berkeleyside)

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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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SBCTA Could Finally End One of the Country’s Worst Zombie Projects: The ONT Connector

“The ONT Connector is an inappropriate investment. Ridership capacity and public transportation utility do not support spending billions of dollars for it. Scrapping the project is the right decision. Electric rail to ONT is the appropriate decision,” writes Kevin Dedicatoria, The Transit Coalition, Community Consultant.