Skip to Content
Streetsblog California home
Log In
Thanks to our advertising sponsor -
Keep bus lanes for buses. Today's stories are presented by HaydenAI
Today's Headlines

Today’s Headlines

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

Today's Headlines are brought to you by our monthly donors. Thank you for supporting Streetsblog's work to keep our readers informed about state-level planning and policy decisions. If you don't already, please consider making a sustaining monthly donation.

Melanie Curry@StreetsblogCal

Streetsblog California editor Melanie Curry has been thinking about transportation, and how to improve conditions for bicyclists, since her early days commuting by bike to UCLA long ago. She was Managing Editor at the East Bay Express, and edited Access Magazine for the University of California Transportation Center. She also earned her Masters in City Planning from UC Berkeley.

Stay in touch

Sign up for our free newsletter

More from Streetsblog California

Rail

Funding for Rail Projects: An Incomplete Roundup

Various federal, state, and local funding sources are lining up.

December 8, 2023
Streetsblog Los AngelesCaltrans

Caltrans and Metro Using “Auxiliary Lane” Freeway Widening Loophole for Non-Aux Lane Projects

Beyond just using harmful loopholes legally, Metro and Caltrans deceptively bypass environmental regulations in order to keep on widening freeways

December 8, 2023
Streetsblog California is supported by AARP California
Participate in a free AARP California Planning Academy to gain the knowledge, skills and connections to be an impactful leader in community planning.
Learn more →
Streetsblog San FranciscoTransit Advocacy

Seamless Bay Area Five Years Later

The founders of the Bay Area's advocacy group dedicated to fare integration and rational schedules talk about a half-decade of fighting for better transit and what's likely to happen in the next five years.

December 8, 2023
Advocacy

California Can’t Be a Climate Leader Until it Stops Building Freeways

Caltrans should be inducing demand for active transportation and transit with protected bikeways and bus-only lanes.

December 8, 2023
Today's Headlines

Friday’s Headlines

LA buses will have AI cameras to help enforce bus-only lanes; Who rides the LA subway? San Mateo transit officials want regional discussions to include them better; More

December 8, 2023
See all posts