Today’s Headlines
More California headlines at Streetsblog LA and Streetsblog SF
8:24 AM PDT on September 17, 2019
- A pedestrian dies every 90 minutes in the U.S. – low-income areas are the hardest hit (LA Times)
- Federal transportation policy is undermining any progress on climate (Transportation for America)
- The rules of transportation design need to be reframed (Curbed)
- Partnership forms to help bring high speed rail to L.A. (Global Railway Review)
- Lucerne to hold workshop to discuss ways to improve walking, biking, and transit along Hwy 20 (Lake County News)
- Why California is standing firm against Trump on auto emissions (e360)
- CA approves funding for clean transportation (NGT News)
- Paris plans to offer subsidies for e-bikes (DW)
- Consumer group charges infrastructure fees on EVs are “punitive” (Planetizen)
- Waymo’s autonomous taxis provided more than 4,000 trips in the pilot’s first month in CA (TechCrunch)
More California headlines at Streetsblog LA and Streetsblog SF
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