Monday’s Headlines

How much time does driving - and paying for driving - take up? Second best safety fixes are better than none; High-speed rail station plans for Fresno; More

By Melanie Curry

8:10 AM PDT on May 6, 2024

Screengrab from City Nerd

Video: How much time does driving, and paying for driving, take up? (a big chunk) (CityNerd)
Second-best safety fixes are still better than the status quo (Bloomberg)
CAHSRA reveal plans for Fresno high speed rail station, seek input (Fresnoland)
Protecting the coastal rail route (San Diego Union Tribune)
When "across the street" is a painful twelve-minute walk (The Cool Down)
US cities are not ready for wildfire smoke (Governing)
Gas stove pollution is worse in smaller homes (NY Times)
Maybe we should measure happiness rather than gross domestic product (Lloyd Alter)
Frequent hardship makes a society more resilient (NY Times)
Is the "taxpayer protection act" a constitutional amendment? CA Supreme Court to weigh in (Sacramento Bee)

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Melanie Curry

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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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