Thursday’s Headlines

• It’s too expensive! It’s too hard! Metrolink says they not going electric any time soon (KTLA)
• Not enough bus drivers: Lake County transit forced to cut bus service (Lake County News)
• Levi’s Stadium renews partnership with ACE train (Mass Transit)
• Little Oakland-Alameda water shuttle is awfully popular (The BayLink)
• State contest: How are you a traffic safety champion? Win $$! (Mountain Democrat)
• Transportation money going out:
  • $5M from the California Energy Commission for SF Bay Ferry electric charging system (RTO Insider)
  • $8.2M to West Hollywood for a Sustainable Transportation and Equity Program (STEP) grant for transit, bike, and pedestrian projects (WEHO Times)
  • $6M from state (SB1) and federal (BIL) programs to SF Bay Area transportation projects (Patch)
  • Wider highways and new sidewalks in Tulare and Fresno (The Sun Gazette)
• Mayor of Gilroy touts coming road widenings as “significant improvements” (Gilroy Dispatch)
• A “livability strategy” for downtown Sacramento (DowntownSac)
• Results from most recent cap-and-trade auction: Sold out, price declined (Environmental Defense Fund)
• UK leaning towards allowing local jurisdictions to lower speed limits to 20 mph (Bloomberg)
• A cross-continental race, from London to Albania, using only public transit (Bloomberg)
• Bill to force Google and Meta to pay journalists for content they use killed, replaced by funding agreement (CalMatters)

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