Tuesday’s Headlines

CA is powering itself with renewables; The new traffic safety paradigm; What cargo e-bikes are looking like; More

By Melanie Curry

8:44 AM PDT on July 9, 2024

Photo: Alvin Holbrook/Velo

California is powering itself without fossil fuels (except for cars) (New Yorker)
Build sustainable neighborhoods now (Smart Cities Dive)
Applying the new traffic safety paradigm (Planetizen)
People are riding bikes; they're just not buying very many of them (Bicycle Retailer)
A bill to push-start American bike builders? (Fast Company)
Is this the future of electric cargo bikes? (Velo)
Berkeley approves fleet of Lime e-scooters (Berkeleyside)
LA Metro's A Line extension to San Bernardino gets a first slice of state funding (Daily Bulletin)
LA Metro to launch next phase of Mobility Wallet next month (Mass Transit)
Federal RAISE grants go out for road, rail, transit, and port projects across the U.S. (Construction Dive)
Voters in some states could limit - or eliminate - property taxes (Governing)

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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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