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
8:32 AM PDT on July 10, 2023
- 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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