Today’s Headlines
More California headlines at Streetsblog LA and Streetsblog SF
8:25 AM PST on December 17, 2021
- Manhattan Beach decides parklets are too popular, and – unlike drivers – are dangerous and increase traffic (AP News)
- Transportation has become political (Governing)
- Fatal crashes persisted even as traffic declined (SF Chronicle)
- Colorado approves rule requiring climate impact of transportation projects to be measured, mitigated (Colorado Public Radio)
- Federal memo to states: Please use transportation money to fix what you already have before building new roads (Wired)
- CA set to get almost $5B from federal highway bill (Daily Republic)
- When the economy, logistics, color, and COVID collide (Black Voice News)
- San Jose looks to implement state law allowing denser housing (Patch)
- Efficiency isn’t efficient enough; we have to think about what is sufficient (TreeHugger)
More California headlines at Streetsblog LA and Streetsblog SF
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