Tuesday’s Headlines

Bike lanes vs the carceral state; How cars became huge killers; GHSA releases 2022 pedestrian fatality date by state; Greyhound bus stations are falling victim to hedge funds; More

By Melanie Curry

8:37 AM PST on December 19, 2023

Bike lanes vs. the carceral state (Convergence Magazine)
How cars became huge killers (Slate)
Report: 2022 Pedestrian traffic fatality data by state (GHSA)
What LA Metro has to do to succeed (LAP progressive)
Greyhound bus stations disappear as hedge funds buy them up (CNN)
SamTrans signs agreement to occupy offices at Millbrae station hub (SF Chronicle)
Santa Clara Valley Transit (VTA) buys downtown San Jose property near future high-speed rail (Mercury News)
Big oil and labor work together to block climate and environmental efforts in California (CalMatters)
Homelessness grows as evictions, cost of housing keeps rising (CalMatters)
Maybe Orange County should be as dense as San Francisco (California Planning & Development Report)
Report: The fifteen-minute neighborhood (SPUR)

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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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