Today’s Headlines
More California headlines at Streetsblog LA and Streetsblog SF
8:15 AM PDT on June 2, 2021
- COVID broke transit; can it be remade better? (Politico)
- Free transit won’t solve everything (Slate)
- Oil industry claims jobs are more important than clean air and racial justice (SF Chronicle)
- Bring back San Francisco’s Great Bicycle Adventure (SF Chronicle)
- CA plans “massive scale-up” of EV charging infrastructure (Newsweek)
- Well, anyway, Pope Francis has ordered an electric Popemobile (Tech Crunch)
- Amtrak has a 15-year vision (Railway Age)
- Freeways without futures (Congress for New Urbanism)
- So tear them down; but then what? (Vice)
- The carbon footprint of tap water (Treehugger)
More California headlines at Streetsblog LA and Streetsblog SF
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