Thursday’s Headlines

People hate car-free cities, until they live in one; FHWA has some spare change for bike/ped projects; How CEQA can hamper electric rail; More

By Melanie Curry

8:42 AM PDT on March 21, 2024

A photoshopped rendering of an electric Caltrain. Image: Bay Rail Alliance

People hate the idea of a car-free city, until they live in one (Wired)
FHWA has $45m for projects to improve bike and pedestrian safety (Traffic Technology Today)
Why is it so hard to get a speed hump in LA? (LA Times)
A national approach to transit (Reece Martin)
How environmental rules can hamper electric rail (Californians for Electric Rail)
Biden touts high-speed rail between CA and Las Vegas (LA Times)
Capitalism can't solve climate change (Time)
CARB's Low Carbon Fuel Standards and the mirage of biofuels (Random Lengths News)
Newsom, legislative leaders announce budget agreement (Sacramento Bee, CalMatters)
BART Inspector General finds 3 employees who claimed to work but never did (SF Chronicle)
State agencies will no longer report telework data (Sacramento Bee)
More on agreement with automaker on CA clean-car rules (Politico)

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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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