Today’s Headlines
- Transit's fiscal emergency is a "four-alarm fire" (Transit Center)
- Why do American cities waste so much space on cars? (NY Times)
- CA High-Speed Rail Authority releases draft environmental report for northern segment (Railway Age)
- Environmental movement can't ignore environmental racism any more (Time)
- Uber recruited allies in its data battle against cities by pretending to be an advocacy organization (Wired)
- E-assist bike-share coming to San Gabriel Valley (Daily Bulletin)
- Berkeley breaks ground on ambitious homeless, affordable housing project (Berkeleyside)
- Alameda County to lease hotels for homeless housing, adding more to what was a state contract (Berkeleyside)
- Carnegie Hall got a bailout, but not your favorite food cart (Bloomberg)
- Transportation innovation sped up our lives; at what cost? (Planetizen)
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