Wednesday’s Headlines

Money for road repair; Looking for a place to sit; Autopia going electric... one day; More

8:48 AM PDT on April 3, 2024

Looking for a place to sit down in the city (Bloomberg)
Study: E-bikes are transforming urban mobility and cities should get onboard (Momentum)
Marin road safety project gets $7.5 million from road repair, including some separated bikeways (Marin IJ)
Metro completes tunneling for D Line to the westside (LA Times)
New York City to allow more cargo e-bike delivery vehicles (Our Town Downtown, Cityland)
Disneyland's Autopia is (finally!) going electric... after some study. Sammy Roth has some good ideas for updating Tomorrowland (LA Times)
Portola Valley's housing element rejected as inadequate (SF Chronicle)
"Builders' Remedy" up for revision (CalMatters, KQED)
Another way to get polluters to pay for the damage caused by pollution (NY Times)

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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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