Thursday’s Headlines

Federal infrastructure bill is a climate time bomb; Homelessness is killing people; E-bike incentives; Banning gas stations; Inland Empire warehouse jobs are not very desirable ones; More

By Melanie Curry

8:39 AM PST on February 29, 2024

Photo: Mass Transit

Federal infrastructure bill is a climate time bomb (Transportation for America)
It's that old saw: Safety advocates v. firefighters (LA Times)
Homelessness can be a death sentence (CalMatters)
What e-bike incentives can - and can't - do (Bloomberg)
Oildale adds sidewalks (Aol)
UC Davis transit celebrates a milestone: 100 million riders (KCRA)
Plan for new city needs voter approval (Yahoo!)
Sacramento moves to prohibit new gas stations, drive-throughs (Fresno Bee)
- Other cities are doing the same (Grist)
El Cerrito breaks ground on housing at Del Norte BART station (East Bay Times)
Chula Vista and National City get state grants for "green transportation" (BNN)
Construction begins on wall to hold back San Clemente cliffs above rail line (LAist)
Put a car horn on your bike (Clean Technica)
Report: Inland Empire warehouses provide jobs, but they're lousy ones (UCR)
Can California capture some of this rain? (CalMatters)

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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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