Today’s Headlines
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8:35 AM PST on January 9, 2023
- Why do we keep widening highways when we know it only makes traffic worse? (NY Times)
- S.F. inaugurates long-awaited subway extension (SF Chronicle)
- National Park Service seeks public comment on its long range transportation plan (GoldRushCam)
- Facebook has given up on reviving the Dumbarton rail bridge (NY Times)
- Hundreds of deserted oil and gas wells in SoCal could soon get plugged. It’s a drop in the bucket (Daily Bulletin)
- Need a new year’s resolution? Try walking (MinnPost)
- National League of Cities creates a training program for small cities without much capacity for grant applications (Route Fifty)
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