Thursday’s Headlines

Long trains cause problems; Climate protestors, oil companies, gas prices; Billions to save minutes? CalBike celebrates 30 years; More

By Melanie Curry

8:51 AM PDT on September 26, 2024

Photo by Evan Dudley, via CalBike

Celebrating 30 years of better biking (CalBike)
TRB report: Road safety crisis requires action (Smart Cities Dive)
Are climate protestors wasting their time? No (LA Times)
New law will speed cleanup of old oil wells (CalMatters)
How will CA manage the slow death of gas industry? (LA Times)
Hilton, Marriott and Chipotle bankroll climate opposition despite green claims (BNN Bloomberg)
Governor Newsom takes on Big Oil (CalMatters)
- But Republicans just want lower gas prices (Carmichael Times, The Ceres Courier)
San Diego man pleads guilty to smuggling greenhouse gases (San Diego Union Tribune)
$54 million boost for CA high-speed rail (Newsweek)
The scourge of long trains (Boondoggle)
Cost benefit calculus: A billion-plus to save six minutes (Route Fifty)
Car companies might have to start caring about pedestrian safety (Fast Company)
Cargo bikes are replacing polluting vans in London (Bloomberg)
Environmental justice history (Urban Land Institute)
Learning from Sacramento's downtown strategy (SF Chronicle)

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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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