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Bus lanes booming in LA; San Diego transit building housing; California building highway lanes; More

8:44 AM PDT on October 20, 2023

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  • 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)

Find more California headlines at Streetsblog LA and Streetsblog SF

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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