Today’s Headlines

• Santa Cruz still pondering plan for electric passenger rail (Mass Transit Magazine)
• Costa Mesa seeks feedback on pedestrian hazards (LA Times)
• Time to get rid of diesel back-up generators (CalMatters)
• Newsom asked for a bill to ban fracking, may get much more than that (LA Times)
• Biden’s infrastructure bill addresses inequality (Politico)
• The plan only meets part of the huge need (Urban Wire)
• How it could affect California’s high-speed rail (Mercury News)
• Will people actually “go back” to mass transit?? (Autoblog)
• It’s an “uphill task” to get Americans to switch to trains and buses, says the Business Times
• Can Biden change our car-loving habits??? (New York Times)
• Hot Cars asks whether a tax credit could ever get people out of cars and onto e-bikes
• How the infrastructure plan could pass (Vox)

More California headlines at Streetsblog LA and Streetsblog SF