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

By Melanie Curry

6:47 AM PST on January 23, 2024

Photo: Joe Linton/ Streetsblog L.A.

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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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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