Monday’s Headlines
Cities made safe for bikes are safer for everyone: How local leaders can shape infrastructure spending; Climate change is killing a lot of people; More
8:28 AM PST on February 5, 2024
- Study: Bike-friendly cities are safer for everyone (Momentum Mag)
- Climate change has killed more than four million people since 2000, and that’s an underestimate (Grist)
- California says fighting climate change is a priority – so why is I-15 getting more lanes? (LA Times)
- During recent cold snap, Texas companies released more than 1 million pounds of excess pollution (Texas Tribune)
- Guide: How local leaders can shape infrastructure spending (and there’s a lot of it) (NRDC)
- SF Muni is better than it’s been in years, according to the SF Chronicle
- OCTA and Metrolink plan to build a barrier wall to protect railroad tracks in San Clemente (KTLA)
- Freight trains are still using the tracks despite threat of landslides (San Diego Union Tribune)
- Santa Barbara transit agency to recommission Goleta site as bus terminal (Noozhawk)
- Paris voters approve plan to charge SUVs, large vehicles more for parking (Le Parisien)
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