Wednesday’s Headlines

The hottest day ever? Oil and gas industry lobbying hampers the fight against climate change; What high-speed rail stations will look like; More

By Melanie Curry

8:44 AM PDT on July 5, 2023

Future Fresno HSR Station rendering. Image courtesy CAHSRA

Tuesday may have been the hottest day ever (AP)
Oil and gas lobbying threaten California's climate efforts (Capital & Main)
What California's first high-speed rail stations will look like (SF Chronicle)
Brightline West gets grants for stations in Hesperia and Apple Valley (Railway News)
Podcast: Winners and losers in the just-passed California budget (Capitol Weekly)
Sonoma County deploys on-demand transit (Smart Cities World)
Lawmakers from outside the Bay Area core oppose raising bridge tolls (Napa Valley Register)
SF police want footage taken by self-driving cars (Bloomberg)
Helping people live closer to activities can reduce VMT (Brookings)

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Melanie Curry

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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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