Today’s Headlines

• There is little justice for hit-and-run victims (Bicycling)
• Climate change is pumping up the heat in the Northwest (Scientific American)
• High speed rail is conspicuously absent from the budget about to be signed (Sacramento Bee)
• Tehachapi welcomes latest HSR plans connecting Bakersfield and Palmdale (Bakersfield.com)
• Two fatal bike crashes in San Diego area call attention to unsafe infrastructure (NBC)
• Coaster train service to increase this fall (Mass Transit)
• California allocates money for transportation, road projects:
  • $31m for new pavement, bridge, crossings, more in Santa Barbara, San Luis Obispo counties (Yahoo)
  • Rest areas, maintenance vehicle pullouts, truck climbing lane, more in Hesperia, Adelanto (Victor Valley Daily Press)
  • $22.7m to widen road approaching border with Mexico (10News)
  • $5m for road widenings in San Benito County (Benito Link)
• Yes, USPS needs electric vehicles, but why cars? (Fast Company)
• Plan for housing at Tejon Ranch is a mistake (Guardian)
• What do we know about the infrastructure deal? (Transportation for America)

More California headlines at Streetsblog LA and Streetsblog SF