Monday’s Headlines

What transit agencies are dealing with; Oakland's Basic Mobility program is working; Zero emission trains and ferries; More

By Melanie Curry

8:35 AM PDT on July 15, 2024

A bus stop in Downtown Oakland. Photo: Jenna Fortunati

The big issues transit agencies are dealing with (Smart Cities Dive)
Oakland's Universal Basic Mobility program to expand (LA Times)
Meet the team that keeps Muni's historic cable cars in shape (Mass Transit)
Dumbarton Rail might be revived as bus corridor (Daily Journal)
The country's first zero emission train arrives in San Bernardino (LAist)
First fully hydrogen-powered ferry debuts in San Francisco Bay (Marine Insight)
Southwest Airlines plans to launch an electric "air taxi" service in California (Borneo Bulletin)
How Europe's pedestrian zones survive and thrive (Forbes)
Two companies agree to settlement over gas price manipulation (San Diego Union Tribune)
Portland prepares for its annual bike count (OPB)

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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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