Today’s Headlines

7:58 AM PDT on June 1, 2021

E-bikes can be an affordable way to reach climate goals (CalMatters)
OCTA plans to use state funding for fare reduction programs and battery electric pilot (Mass Transit)
LA Metro exploring plan for free transit (LA Times)
Albertson's begins replacing heavy-duty diesel trucks with electric semis (Fast Company)
Ontario partners with Tesla to bring charging stations downtown (Daily Bulletin)
Study: Airlines claim carbon offsets offer carbon neutrality, but it's only hot air (Transport & Environment)
Design public spaces for teen girls (Bloomberg)
Empty malls to become housing? (AP)
"Decade-old" project to "unclog" the "worst bottleneck" - highway widening gets funding (Marin Independent Journal)
I-710 widening isn't dead yet (LA Times)
CTC chair responds to LA Times complaint about high gas prices, slow road repairs

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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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