Today’s Headlines

8:21 AM PDT on May 25, 2021

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

Streetsblog California editor Melanie Curry has been thinking about transportation, and how to improve conditions for bicyclists, ever since commuting to school by bike long before bike lanes were a thing. She was Managing Editor at the East Bay Express, editor of Access Magazine for the University of California Transportation Center, and earned her Masters in City Planning from UC Berkeley.

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