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Today’s Headlines

8:41 AM PDT on May 20, 2021

    • Long Beach considers a public park along its river (Press Telegram)
    • Fixing commuter rail will cost money (Governing)
    • Transportation improvements are key to reducing health disparities (Transfers Magazine)
    • CA spends millions to improve highways:
      • $16 million for Taft highway (KGET)
      • $112 million for Highway 101 (SYVNews)
      • Resurfacing of Highway 12 in Sonoma County begins; some crosswalks missing? (Sonoma News)
    • CA willing to fix, but not widen, Highway 41 in Fresno County (KMPH)
      • Local officials claim they're "not adding capacity, we're completing capacity that's already there" (Fresno Bee)
      • They're mad that the state is putting its money where its mouth is (The Sun)
    • Colorado claims its highway expansions are "different" and won't bring [much] more traffic (CPR)
    • Nonresidents say if Oakland were to remove a freeway it would inconvenience them (Mercury News)
    • Why cities say no to new transportation technology (Bloomberg)
    • California oil industry spends millions fighting climate policy (Capital and Main)
    • Gig economy's business model is blocking climate policy (Vice)

More California headlines at Streetsblog LA and Streetsblog SF

Melanie Curry

Streetsblog California editor Melanie Curry has been thinking about transportation, and how to improve conditions for bicyclists, since her early days commuting by bike to UCLA long ago. She was Managing Editor at the East Bay Express, and edited Access Magazine for the University of California Transportation Center. She also earned her Masters in City Planning from UC Berkeley.

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