Today’s Headlines

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)

More California headlines at Streetsblog LA and Streetsblog SF

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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