Friday’s Headlines

Bike lanes on Reseda Blvd were hard-fought; CAHSRA approves EIR for Burbank to Palmdale, shares station designs; NY will pay a high price for canceling congestion pricing plan; More

By Melanie Curry

8:41 AM PDT on June 28, 2024

Rendering of Bakersfield high-speed rail station. Image: CAHSRA

Nine Caltrans employees receive medals of valor, most for dramatic rescues of endangered motorists (Caltrans)
A little history on how hard it was to get those bike lanes on Reseda (Biking in LA)
CA High-Speed Authority approves EIR for Burbank to Palmdale section (CAHSRA)
High-speed rail state designs shared at open houses (RT&S)
History of Santa Rosa's transit system (Press Democrat)
LA Metro plans to move ahead with its own police force and end current law enforcement contracts (KTLA, LA Times)
The costs of canceling the NY congestion pricing plan:
- 100K jobs (NY Times)
- Subway upgrades, including accessible stations (NY Times)
The ten most important U.S. environmental laws (Legal Planet)
Tesla ordered to curb its factory emissions in Fremont (Mercury News)
CARB rules will phase out fossil-fueled forklifts in California
Ukraine war drove up gas prices in Germany, led to a lot more people biking (Science Direct)

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.