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

By Melanie Curry

8:37 AM PDT on September 22, 2023

Screengrab from Vox

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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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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