Tuesday’s Headlines
Transportation agencies are climate agencies; San Jose Mayor says its BART project needs to be scaled down; Can quitting cars be popular? More
6:47 AM PST on January 23, 2024
- Transportation agencies are also climate agencies (Yahoo)
- One way that BART, other transit agencies want to consolidate is in appearance (SF Chronicle)
- Could Bay Area ferries be entering a “golden age”? (Mercury News, Governing)
- New transit hub opens in Clovis (Your Central Valley)
- San Jose Mayor says BART project needs to be scaled down (Mercury News)
- CA State Senate requests coordinated action on Surfliner rail line (RT&S)
- Can quitting cars be popular? (BBC)
- SF neighborhood parking permits prices could go up (SF Chronicle)
- Big parking lots are just bad all around (Scientific American)
- Is it a good idea for Lyft to run LA Metro’s bikeshare system? (Velo)
- London is about to see a major change (for the better) on its streets (Bloomberg)
- The far-away race for California governor has a crowded field (CalMatters)
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