Today’s Headlines

8:46 AM PDT on May 16, 2023

USDOT finds demand for funding to tear down freeways is very high (Urban Institute)
- But the federal infrastructure bill is building freeways (E&E)
Megabus returns to major CA cities with daily trips (Yahoo, SF Examiner)
Newsom's budget cuts climate spending (Mercury News)
City of Pasadena, rather than support Bike Week, plans to enforce traffic rules this Friday, with the usual language about "shared responsibility for safety" (Pasadena Now)
How to quit cars (New Yorker)
Engineers need to account for the costs of traffic violence in their calculations (Speakeasy)
Study: Emissions from fossil fuel industry are causing excessive wildfires (Sacramento Bee)
Interview with EPA regional director on environmental justice (PPIC)

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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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