Wednesday’s Headlines

Infrastructure spending is a climate time bomb; Caltrain releases new, faster schedule thanks to electrification; Desire lines show where people want to walk; More

By Melanie Curry

8:27 AM PDT on August 28, 2024

Photo by Joe Linton

Infrastructure spending is a climate time bomb (Transportation 4 America)
Federal infrastructure bill is allowing states to build projects that have been in the pipeline for years (Governing)
America's highway addition can be broken (Slate)
Caltrain releases new schedule with electric service - more frequent, faster (Mountain View Voice)
Desire lines: the unofficial pedestrian paths that shape a city (Forbes)
SamTrans workers don't strike, but negotiations aren't over (San Mateo Daily Journal)
Discontinued paper BART tickets put to a new use (SF Gate)
UC Berkeley students struggle to find housing (KALW)
CA receives $150M federal funding to build EV charging ports, including some hydrogen (LA Times, Sierra Sun Times)
- And launches $500m program to get school districts to use electric buses (CARB)

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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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