Monday’s Headlines
Seniors want to feel safe on the Wiggle, too; All-electric school bus fleet in Oakland - first in nation - will feed power back to grid; Folsom St to get a major redesign; More
8:31 AM PDT on May 20, 2024
- Seniors want to feel safe on SF’s most famous bike route (The Frisc)
- The first all-electric school bus fleet in the U.S. – in Oakland – will also feed peak-time power to the grid (Bloomberg)
- SF’s Folsom Street about to get a major redesign (SF Standard)
- Reshaping the suburbs for bicycling (Streets.mn)
- Reviving downtown Los Angeles: Why design thinking matters more than ever (Urban Land)
- CTC allocates nearly $2 billion for transportation infrastructure throughout state (Times of San Diego)
- And approves new “managed” lanes on I-80 (Sacramento Bee)
- More than 1,200 LA-owned affordable housing units are vacant (Santa Monica Daily Press)
- Politics is what drives California’s budget discussions (CalMatters)
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