Tuesday’s Headlines

Widening highways won't solve congestion (can't we tell by now?); People want to ride bike share but cities don't make it easy; What grownups lost when kids stopped playing in the street; More

By Melanie Curry

8:29 AM PDT on July 30, 2024

Giant, ever-widening highways are being built on a lie (Vox)
People want to ride shared bikes and scooters, but cities aren't making that easy (Next City)
What grownups lost when kids could no longer play in the streets (The Atlantic)
A little California railroad history for you - the Tehachapi Loop (Tehachapi News)
Select committee will meet to develop a new Bay Area transit tax measure for a future ballot (Palo Alto Daily Post)
California Coastal Commission, MST spar over proposed busway in Monterey County (KION)
BART installs fare evasion-resistant gates in downtown SF (KQED)
Labor leaders vow to keep fighting for Uber drivers' rights (Sacramento Bee)
Santa Cruz County questions Caltrans on cost overruns on Highway 1 project (Santa Cruz Local)
Insurance companies won't insure climate friendly farming (Bloomberg)

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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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