Today’s Headlines

7:39 AM PDT on September 2, 2021

The Senate could fix transit funding in the federal infrastructure bill (Transportation for America)
Where the infrastructure money will go (CNBC)
Largest electric truck deployment ever gets going in Southern California (Transit Topics)
California Energy Commission grant will help build first solar-powered truck stop in Bakersfield (Yahoo! Finance)
CA to offer e-bike incentives (Spectrum News)
What we really need are a lot more electric delivery bikes (Bloomberg)
The role of transportation in the Caldor Fire and other catastrophes (Forbes)
It's getting harder to evacuate disasters (Wired)
Millions could lose their homes with end of eviction moratorium (NY Times)
Solutions for housing stability (Urban Wire)
More solutions for ending homelessness (Next City)
Sometimes community engagement is just a way to kill a project (Governing)
Irvine plans to study "smart" intersections using sensors (Orange County Register)

More California headlines at Streetsblog LA and Streetsblog SF

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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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