Friday’s Headlines
Bus lanes booming in LA; San Diego transit building housing; California building highway lanes; More
8:44 AM PDT on October 20, 2023
- A bus-lane-building boom in Los Angeles (LA Times)
- Orange Avenue Bike Lane in Long Beach secures funding (Press-Telegram)
- Ontario prepares to demolish small businesses in preparation for bus rapid transit (Daily Bulletin)
- San Diego’s Metropolitan Transit System is adding housing to park-and-ride lots, station areas (Times of San Diego)
- CTC approves truck-climbing lane on Highway 58 out of Bakersfield (Bakersfield.com)
- Central Valley road repair projects approved for funding (Your Central Valley)
- Federal grants fund small state projects aiming to get cars off the road (Mass Transit)
- The urgent need for methane literacy (Heated)
- SoCalGas, Center for Transportation and the Environment are all in for hydrogen vans (Cision)
- How the US can electrify its public fleets (Clean Technica)
- Sacramento’s plan to pay for Golden 1 Center with parking revenue fails as parking lots sit empty (Sacramento Bee)
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