Friday’s Headlines

How public transit benefits everyone; Proposal to consolidate all 27 Bay Area transit agencies; People's Park housing battle; More

By Melanie Curry

8:38 AM PST on January 5, 2024

Photo by Joe Linton/Streetsblog

How public transit benefits everyone (San Jose Spotlight)
Want more transit - and transit funding? Build housing to support it (Bloomberg)
Judge refuses to dismiss youth climate lawsuit (AP)
More on Berkeley's battle over housing at People's Park (SF Chronicle)
and attempts to keep protestors at bay (SF Chronicle)
Bay Area legislator proposes combining all 27 transit agencies (SF Chronicle)
BART might be okay with that (SF Chronicle)
Supporters of heavy rail oppose monorail idea for San Fernando Valley (KTLA headline says they "crashed" the meeting)
Details emerge on how that BART train derailed (Patch)

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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