Today's Headlines

Today’s Headlines

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By Melanie Curry

8:30 AM PDT on April 5, 2021

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

Melanie Curry

Today's Headlines

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