Friday’s Headlines
Replace delivery trucks with e-cargo bikes, already; Carbon offsets are the opposite of helpful; Republicans push USDOT not to fund CA HSR; More
8:37 AM PDT on September 22, 2023
- Replace urban delivery trucks with e-cargo bikes already (Vox)
- California Bicycle Coalition’s end-of-session legislative recap (CalBike)
- Cruise CEO downplays robotaxi problems in San Francisco (SF Standard)
- Oakland plans wider sidewalks, bulb-outs along some of its major downtown streets (Oaklandside)
- Carbon offsets undercut climate progress (Bloomberg)
- Congressional Republicans push USDOT to refuse funding for CA’s high-speed rail program (The Bond Buyer)
- Computer glitches causing huge backup of US-bound freight traffic in Tijuana (KTSM)
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