Wednesday’s Headlines

More money - from bonds - for Brightline West; Should Bay Area transit agencies combine or just work together better? The health impacts of unreliable mass transit; More

By Melanie Curry

7:40 AM PST on January 24, 2024

USDOT allocates another $2.5 billion - from bonds - for Brightline West high-speed rail (ENR, Smart Cities Dive)
- The Las Vegas-to-Rancho Cucamonga line might open in 2028 (Desert Sun)
San Diego's Trolley did not escape Monday's storm (NBC)
That billionaire's dream of a new city in California is disconnected (Fast Company)
So many barriers to making the places we live places we love to live in (EPA)
Opinion: Combining Bay Area transit agencies would just rearrange costs but might not improve anything (Mercury News)
- But at least their maps can look the same (Railway Age)
The health impacts of unreliable mass transit (Johns Hopkins)
Visalia looks to "micro transit" to solve getting around (The Sun Gazette)
Central Valley electric car-share program is expanding (Gov Tech)
New York Times missed the target with their pedestrian fatalities stories (Greater Greater Washington)
Real people clap back at campaigns that tell pedestrians how to be safe (but not drivers) (Daily Hive)

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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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