Wednesday’s Headlines

Study challenges Supreme Court ruling on climate emissions; Land use policies that reduce transportation emissions; Coastal Commish postpones hearing on bus road proposal; Hydrogen powered e-bikes??! More

By Melanie Curry

8:36 AM PDT on August 7, 2024

Study challenges Supreme Court assertion that Congress did not mean to regulate climate emissions (360 Yale)
Using land use policies to reduce transportation emissions (Urban Institute)
SFMTA kills plan for bike lanes in Chinatown (SF Standard)
Napa's pedal-powered bike sweeper (CalBike)
Creating a statewide walking and biking database for California (Transportation Research and Education Center)
Learning from Paris (Momentum Mag)
Skate parks are growing up (Bloomberg)
AC transit will start automatically ticketing cars blocking bus lanes and stops this week (KTVU, Mass Transit)
Coastal Commission postpones hearing about Monterey-Salinas SURF proposal (a two-lane bus-only road paralleling Highway 1) (Monterey Herald, Monterey County Now)
Transportation tax measures on the ballot in San Diego, Placer County, Napa, San Francisco (LandLine)
Electric vehicles are selling in CA - 1 in 4 new sales, according to Governor's office (Governor Newsom, Sacramento Bee)
Caltrans to close US 395 north of Bridgeport for two weeks in September to install a wildlife crossing (Caltrans)
City of Boston launches an e-bike incentive pilot (Hello, California?) (Boston.com)
Fears about dangers of lithium batteries lead Chinese to try something potentially more dangerous: hydrogen-powered e-bikes (Technology Review)
"Go away": SF Mayor thinks kicking unhoused people out of city will solve homelessness (Smart Cities Dive)

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Melanie Curry

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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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