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Climate crisis costs estimated; Guerrilla bus stop benches spur city to install official ones; Cities are spending on streets and roads, but conditions are deteriorating anyway; More

By Melanie Curry

8:56 AM PDT on April 5, 2024

More than half the BLAST program is unfinished. Compton Avenue in Watts. Photo by Joe Linton/Streetsblog

Study: Climate crisis will cost LA $$ billions (LA Times)
Guerrilla bus stop benches spur Berkeley to install official ones (NBC)
Avenal to conduct a walk audit (Your Central Valley)
SMART expects strong ridership increases (Press Democrat)
Sonoma highway interchange to get a roundabout (Caltrans, Sonoma News)
Bay Area monthly transportation stats (Bay Link)
Report: Cities are taking care of street and road maintenance, but conditions are still deteriorating (Courthouse News)
Governor, legislature get a start on dealing with state budget deficit (LA Times, CapRadio)
San Francisco sent homeless people away, but doesn’t know where to (SF Standard)
Lawsuit challenges federal grant to keep California’s last nuclear reactor going (AP News)

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Melanie Curry

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