Today’s Headlines

8:33 AM PDT on August 25, 2021

CTC allocates $1.4B for highways, bridges, other infrastructure (Transport Topics)
The US needs to get on track with high-speed rail (GreenBiz)
Winners of the infrastructure bill: Highways planned 50 years ago (E&E)
We don't need new highways, we need to fix what we have that is growing old (Governing)
But what most needs federal support is transit operations (CommonWealth)
Study: Bike lanes have not been causing displacement (Planetizen)
In Oakland, planning from the grassroots level upward (Next City)
California's emergency energy back-up plan could undo years of climate work (Canary Media)
CA legislative leaders ask CARB to revisit offsets (ProPublica)
Buried under California beaches: nuclear waste (The Guardian)
State auditor: Housing dept mismanaged federal funds for homeless residents (LA Times)
Gig worker fight back in courts (CalMatters)

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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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