Wednesday’s Headlines

• 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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