Thursday’s Headlines

Car ownership is a debt trap; Americans don't want to keep expanding highways; Flying cars are upon us; More

By Melanie Curry

8:43 AM PDT on July 6, 2023

The 710 Freeway at the 91 Freeway – photo via Metro presentation

The impossible paradox of car ownership (Vox)
Americans are ready to end highway expansion, even if politicians are not (The Urbanist)
Fireworks bring "some of the worst ever" air quality. What's the carbon footprint? (LA Times)
- …. and tons of trash (SF Chronicle)
Sure, let's move traffic problems to the skies: Startup gets permission to test its "flying cars" (SF Chronicle)
Santa Cruz to buy 54 zero-emission buses with federal grant money (Patch, Good Times)
Bill to increase Bay Area bridge tolls to pay for transit passes first committee (ABC7)
"Car brain" is a fitting insult (The Atlantic)

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Melanie Curry

@StreetsblogCal

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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