Monday’s Headlines

LA missed a chance with the I-10 closure; BART and Muni have to do even more about fare evasion to get bailout money; Driverless cars are stressing cities; More

By Melanie Curry

8:50 AM PST on November 27, 2023

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LA - and California - missed a chance to reimagine the I-10 freeway (Bloomberg)
BART and Muni will receive the lion's share of Bay Area transit funding - if they do more to stop fare evasion (SF Chronicle)
How driverless cars are stressing cities (NY Times)
USDOT finalizing rule requiring states to set benchmarks for vehicle emissions (Route Fifty)
E-bikes are restricted on beach paths, but that doesn't stop some riders (LA Times)
Houseless students living in vehicles at Cal Poly Humboldt ordered off campus (LA Times)
Can LA go electric equitably? (LA Times)
Leadership shuffled in CA Assembly (CalMatters)

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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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