Wednesday’s Headlines

Road project leaves Half Moon Bay residents without access; Kern County residents concerned about a carbon capture plan; Who works from home in the Bay Area? More

By Melanie Curry

8:19 AM PDT on April 17, 2024

We need to make cities less car-dependent (Scientific American)
No city is a traffic island (ITS International)
We don't see what climate change is doing to us (NY Times)
Half Moon Bay residents find road project leaves pedestrians with no access (San Mateo Daily Journal)
CA can't stop Highway 1 from crumbling into the sea (LA Times)
Dodger fans react to gondola proposal (Spectrum)
UCLA transit pass programs 2023: reduced emissions, improved accessibility (UCLA)
Kern County residents raise concerns about experimental carbon capture plan (CalMatters)
California's electricity is inextricably linked to rural red state coal towns (LA Times)
Santa Cruz transportation commissioners, county supes spar over budget, state grant for coastal rail trail (Santa Cruz Local)
Report: who works from home in the Bay Area? (BayLink)

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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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