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Train to Hollywood Bowl? Bay Area transit agencies syncing up schedules; Forest "offsets" are burning up; More

  • LA Metro set to approve K-line extension: LAX to Hollywood Bowl (LA Times)
  • Bay Area transit agencies are syncing up their schedules this month (Mass Transit, BART)
  • SF Muni finds more riders using it for recreation than commuting (SF Examiner)
  • "Do not drive" to Outside Lands (The Bay Link)
  • Bay Area Express Lanes are making more money than expected - and it's being spent on operating, enforcing the lanes (NBC)
  • Hwy 17 wildlife crossing is doing its job; More are coming in CA (Bay Nature)
  • Marin Transit looking to buy a lot to build an electric bus hub (Mass Transit)
  • Ridgecrest approves a plan to switch to electric buses - but it's just a plan they "have to" approve, not necessarily follow (The Daily Independent)
  • More on new High-Speed Rail Authority CEO (Fresno Bee)
  • City engineers use ingenuity to change streets to prevent sideshows (what about for pedestrian and bike safety?) (SF Standard)
  • What will it take to build California's EV infrastructure (KQED)
  • Newsom threatens to take away funding for cities that don't "solve" homelessness (by sending them elsewhere?) (LA Times)
  • Acres of forest that were supposed to be preserved as "offsets" for cap-and-trade are on fire (Politico)

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