Friday’s Headlines

5 recommendations for high-speed rail; Caltrans, stop building new freeway lanes already; "Data bikes" can collect information about bike path conditions; More

By Melanie Curry

8:08 AM PDT on July 12, 2024

Bike path in Wilder Ranch State Park

Report: Five recommendations for high-speed rail (SmartCitiesDive)
Hey, Caltrans: Stop building new capacity for cars, it wastes money, it doesn't help anyone (Transform)
"Data bikes" can collect information about bike path conditions (Route Fifty)
Oakland experimenting with giving out transit debit cards (SF Chronicle)
Universal Basic Income programs are helping people all over the state (CalMatters)
State grant will allow AC Transit to expand zero emission buses, add charging facilities (Alameda Post)
What Shasta County plans to do with state transit allocation (KRCR)
Car-friendly neighborhoods are not kid-friendly neighborhoods (GG Washington)
Amazon says it reached its climate goals seven years early (maybe it should set some new ones) (NY Times)

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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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