Today’s Headlines

8:49 AM PST on February 28, 2023

Pomona secured funding to build a bikeway from Cal Poly to Pomona (Daily Bulletin)
Why BART has to cancel trains (SF Chronicle)
In addition to providing transit service, BART has to be a homeless service provider (SF Standard)
Leaders disagree about how to increase safety on LA Metro (LA Times)
Report: States could help transit agencies close budget gaps (Smart Cities Dive)
Appeals court ruling on CEQA noise issues has upset a lot of people (Yahoo!)
Judge rules Oakland can close down Wood Street Commons (Mercury News)
- Which has been a chaotic, upsetting process (Oaklandside)
Induced demand is real (Planetizen)
- Despite all the denial (City Commentary)
CA seeks to mend neighborhoods sliced by highways (CalMatters)
Federal memo bends to Republican demands that feds recognize state power in decisions over road funding (Route Fifty)
34 University Transportation Centers get funding (Green Car Congress)
Report wants against more lithium mining for EV batteries (CBC)
Some have found solutions to help people in rural areas get around without a car (NPR)

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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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