Today’s Headlines

8:38 AM PDT on October 29, 2020

High Speed Rail completes fourth key structure - first in Kern County. Video: (CAHSRA)
US doubles e-bike imports, and it isn't enough (Electrek)
Bike advocates' role in seeking safe streets for all (Bicycling)
See video about Connect Beverly Hills, a streetscape project at Wilshire and La Cienega
Foothill Transit keeps rolling (LAist)
School buses: Wifi hotspots and student artwork (School Transportation News)
San Francisco officials want to slow speeding drivers (CBS)
Market Street bike lanes dropped from long-agreed-upon plans (SF Examiner)
Equity requires better access to transit (WTOP)
Report: "Explosive growth" in renewable energy across the country (Environmental Leader)
Pandemic is paving the way for participatory transit planning (Grist)
The real lowdown on "ballot harvesting" (CalMatters)
Federal judge orders US Post Office to step it up for the election (LA Times)
These appear to be local news websites - but they are not (Sacramento Bee)

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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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.