Thursday’s Headlines

Why would CA want to rob clean transportation just to fund highways? ATP funding may be restored; Federal regulators need to catch up with vehicle automation tech; More

By Melanie Curry

8:38 AM PDT on May 30, 2024

Why would California rob from clean transportation to fund highway expansions? (LA Times)
CalBike commends legislature for rejecting active transportation cuts (California Bicycle Coalition)
- Here's the legislature's budget plan (Sacramento Bee)
Sacramento area roads are some of the deadliest for pedestrians (Sacramento Bee)
Federal regulators need to catch up with vehicle automation technology (Automotive World)
Project to separate train crossing from traffic in Burlingame put back into state budget by legislature (NBC)
More on Metro's tap-to-exit pilot (LA Times)
Court upholds Transit Oriented Development near Expo Line (JD Supra)
Congressional Republicans, not understanding how megaprojects work, demand to know why the federal government is funding CA high-speed rail (Reuters)
SoCalGas plans to experiment with hydrogen near a tiny Central Valley farmworker community (Capital and Main)

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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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