Today’s Headlines
- 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
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More from Streetsblog California
Eyes on the Street: Alameda Improves Access to Cross-Alameda Trail
Metro Still Planning 605 Freeway Widening Mega-Project, Additional $46.9M Slated to be Approved This Week
Metro and Caltrans are planning a $4B+ highway expansion mega-project that would widen 15 miles of the 605 Freeway, plus several adjacent stretches of the 5, 10, 60, and 105 Freeways
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