Today’s Headlines
More California headlines at Streetsblog LA and Streetsblog SF
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
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