Today’s Headlines

• Fix-it-first or highway expansion? The rhetoric is thick and repairs are endless (Washington Post)
• CTC allocates $924m for CA infrastructure projects (Transport Topics)
  • Including money for LA Metro’s new light rail vehicles (Urban Transport News)
• Transportation for America analyses the US Senate’s proposed transportation bill
• Union City to relaunch “the Flea,” a 1970s on-demand transit service – with non-electric vehicles (Mercury News)
• Electrification of the U.S. fleet will start with buses (Smart Cities World)
• Autonomous vehicles could lead to more pollution (Gizmodo)
• Locals don’t want a fence blocking the railroad tracks in Del Mar (LA Times)
• Oil well setbacks are a political hot potato (AP)
• Homeless hotel shelters are a good start (San Mateo Daily Journal)
• San Francisco says it has helped get people off the streets – but it’s not that simple (SF Chronicle)
• What will happen when the eviction moratorium comes to an end? (Vox)
• “Gendered” government budgets account for different economic circumstances of women (Bloomberg)

More California headlines at Streetsblog LA and Streetsblog SF