Monday’s Headlines

Should we be moving slower? Politicizing traffic safety; E-bike incentive programs help replace car trips; CA is expanding roads and highways to "reduce emissions"; More

By Melanie Curry

8:32 AM PDT on July 10, 2023

Image: Rémi Jouan via Wikimedia Commons

To save the planet, should we be moving slower? (New Yorker)
Some groups are politicizing traffic safety in the name of oppression. Wait, no. Freedom! (NBC News)
The pollution legacy of segregation and freeways in Los Angeles (AfroLA)
Why streets are so unsafe for pedestrians - and everybody else (CBS News)
E-bike incentives are helping replace car trips but programs are moving slowly (Bloomberg)
EVs vs transit (The New Republic)
Visalia Transit workers on strike (Visalia Times Delta, Your Central Valley)
CA pouring money into "industry-leading" hydrogen trains (Hydrogen Central)
Road builders say: Improvements to Highway 58 will "produce smoother traffic flows and thereby reduce emissions" (Tehachapi News)
San Luis Obispo gets money to relieve "nightmare" traffic by widening Highway 101 as main objective of "multimodal network enhancement" plan (KESQ)
Yosemite officials "might" return to desperately-needed reservation system for cars in the park (SF Chronicle)
An explainer on legislative bills' "findings" vs "intent" (CalMatters)

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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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