Thursday’s Headlines

Voters approve LA's Measure HLA for bike and bus lanes; Some passenger rail service returns to dan Clemente area; What Bay Area residents want in terms of transportation; More

By Melanie Curry

8:43 AM PST on March 7, 2024

Photo by Joe Linton/Streetsblog

Voters approve measure to support bike and bus lanes in LA (LA Times)
What Bay Area residents want transportation-wise (KQED)
Bay Area: Caltrans district wants to hear from you about public transit (The Bay Link)
Some Amtrak service to resume along San Clemente tracks (LA Times, PR Newswire)
More on new railway cars for San Joaquin route (Railway Age)
Unitrans' 100 millionth rider gets a lifetime pass (now she can never move away from Davis) (UC Davis)
San Bernardino Transit Center is a key connector for buses, trains in Inland Empire (The Sun)
More on new Transit Equity tool (Local News Matters)
Santa Monica plans police crackdown on traffic violations (Santa Monica Lookout)
There's a black market for greenhouse gas-emitting refrigerants (New York Times)

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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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