Today’s Headlines

8:48 AM PST on February 13, 2023

How the Crosswalk Collective is trying to make streets safer (LAist)
San Diego can end its over-reliance on cars (San Diego Union-Tribune)
Slow Streets are returning to Oakland (Oaklandside)
Express bus to downtown SF is back (SF Examiner, SF Standard)
Inglewood Rail projects gets $407 million in state funding (LA Business Journal)
- Hidden deep in its planning documents: 44 businesses to be relocated at a cost of $34M (2UrbanGirls)
SMART gets funding to expand to wine country (SF Gate)
Federal grants come to Central Coast transit (Edhat)
Not getting a federal grant this round won't slow down California's High Speed Rail program (Mass Transit)
The Ohio derailment is a wake-up call (The Guardian)
PG&E captures natural gas from cow poop (ABC7)
Evictions are rising (Mercury News)

Find 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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