Thursday’s Headlines
ACTION ALERT: Tell Congress not to kill funding for Amtrak, HSR; US drivers kill 20 pedestrians every day; Finding stable funding for public transit; More
8:36 AM PDT on November 2, 2023
- ACTION ALERT: Tell your Congressional representative to defeat a bill that would defund passenger rail (High Speed Rail Alliance)
- U.S. drivers kill twenty pedestrians every day (Smart Cities Dive)
- Audit finds San Diego severely underfunds pedestrian safety (KPBS)
- Public transportation needs stable funding sources (Transit Center)
- CAHSRA considering adding new track in SoCal corridor (OC Register)
- Bike riders in Portland protest removal of bike lane (Bike Portland)
- A lot of constraints make it hard to converting a freeway lane to a toll lane (Planetizen)
- Mapping out where self-driving cars have crashed in San Francisco (SF Examiner)
- EVs now make up one-fifth of car sales in California (Mercury News)
- How affordable housing is being attacked under CEQA in Eureka (High Country News)
- Why it’s hard to build housing in SF and LA (CalMatters)
- Public agencies face a dilemma about public comment at their meetings (CalMatters)
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