Thursday’s Headlines

Caltrans offers 1950s-style false hope on freeway challenges; Nature needs investment; Public transit is part of America's DNA; More

By Melanie Curry

8:34 AM PST on February 1, 2024

Image: Rémi Jouan via Wikimedia Commons

Caltrans offering 1950s-style false hope for I-80's challenges (NRDC)
California nature needs investment on par with energy and transit (Capitol Weekly)
Public transit is in America's DNA (The Urbanist)
VTA drops eminent domain suit for property near future BART station (Mercury News)
San Diego's MTS to add patrols, lighting, hotline to improve transit safety (NBC San Diego)
How parking reform is transforming US cities for the better (Yale)
Do we have to rebuild guardrails now because people are buying heavier cars? (AP)
Caltrans releases plans for bike lane on busy El Camino Real in Palo Alto (Palo Alto Online)

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Melanie Curry

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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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