Today’s Headlines

8:16 AM PDT on August 20, 2019

California agencies approve:
- Money for local transit (Transportation Today)
- Solar chargers for school buses (PV Magazine)
- Charging infrastructure for electric buses and trucks in San Diego (Freight Waves)
- Major road improvements in Fontana, for freight trucks mostly (Fontana Herald)
California is already dealing with sea level rise (Capitol Weekly)
- We are far from alone on that (Japan Times)
Cities facing biggest climate risks are the least prepared (City Lab)
Federal transportation policy bill, from environment committee, maintains focus on highways--and cars (Transportation for America)
Housing Twitter is kinda shouty (Fast Company)
Rich guy helps downtown St. Louis while razing black St. Louis (City Lab)

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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