Wednesday’s Headlines
The size of CA's freeway budget; Support a bill to create more "quick-build" projects; You can own an old Caltrain locomotive (engine not included); More
8:30 AM PDT on August 14, 2024
- Podcast: The size of California’s freeway budget (KPBS)
- CalBike urges support for a bill that would encourage “quick-build” safety projects
- Cargo bikes are hugely popular in London (Planetizen)
- You can own a decommissioned Caltrain locomotive (diesel engine not included) (ABC7)
- Marin transit approves a slow rollout towards a somewhat zero-emission fleet (Mass Transit)
- How states are funding local roads in an era of EVs (CA charges EVs a fee) (Governing)
- Five CA transit agency – now including VTA – are permitted under state law to ban “troublesome” riders (KRON4, SF Gate)
- Congress could make it easier for small cities to get transportation funding (Route Fifty)
- Data centers are sucking up a LOT of power (LA Times)
- The climate whoppers told by Musk and Trump (Heated)
- Judge rejects environmental lawsuit against Dodger stadium gondola project (Mass Transit)
- For some – in San Francisco, for example – November’s ballot will be a big one (SF Standard)
- Expect more hostile architecture as a “solution” to homelessness (Wired)
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