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

By Melanie Curry

8:31 AM PDT on May 20, 2024

Electric school bus. Image from Thomas Built Buses, one of the suppliers of electric school buses in California

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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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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