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

By Melanie Curry

8:28 AM PST on February 5, 2024

A train on the LOSSAN corridor in Orange County, from an Amtrak promotion.

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)

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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