Thursday’s Headlines

LA found a way to quickly speed up transit!? Drivers bring pollution into neighborhoods; Sunline talks about the difficulties with hydrogen; More

By Melanie Curry

8:52 AM PST on November 16, 2023

Somehow LA Metro found a way to speed up buses and trains and add service (LA Times)
Drivers trying to navigate around freeway closure bring bad air, bad traffic into the neighborhoods (LA Times)
In San Francisco, APEC brings street and sidewalk closures and protests (SF Chronicle)
Sunline Transit shares its experience - and struggles - with its hydrogen powered buses (Mass Transit)
Stop calling it a "bailout" for transit (Newsweek)
What happened to city foot traffic? (Marketplace, Gov Tech)
Right turns on red are "under threat" (KTVQ)
There's a new generation of freeway fighters (Bloomberg)
Plan for housing at Ashby BART station advances; "Air rights" option gave city leverage in negotiations (Berkeleyside)
Update: Santa Monica Council backs more resources for Vision Zero (Santa Monica Next)
Are carbon offsets doing what they claim to do? (PPIC)
Homelessness is a policy choice (Governing)

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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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