Today’s Headlines
More California headlines at Streetsblog LA and Streetsblog SF
8:14 AM PDT on June 17, 2019
- San Rafael opens Grand Avenue bike-pedestrian bridge (Marin Independent Journal)
- East Palo Alto gets a new pedestrian bridge too (Fox)
- The problem with giving a dumb award: Some people want more, and this idea jeopardizes a long-promised bike connection (Marin Independent Journal)
- Here’s another dumb award, this one for some truly terrible bike infrastructure (Americas Transportation Awards)
- In contrast, some beautiful bike projects to feast your eyes upon (Fast Company)
- New BART cars to be built locally (ABC7)
- LA Times grouses that cap-and-trade should not be used for clean water
- Clean water is a fundamental right; long term solutions are needed (NRDC)
- Instead of helping people directly, welfare funding goes to programs that preach at them–in particular black people (The Atlantic)
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