Thursday’s Headlines

City trades a car lot for a park; Interagency Equity Advisory Committee looking for applicants; OCTA allocates $$ for local transportation; More

By Melanie Curry

8:36 AM PDT on October 17, 2024

New Zocalo in Ashland. Photo via Knee Deep Times

Ashland trades in a car lot for a park (Knee Deep Times)
Video: Ten suburbs that are more city-like than cities (City Nerd)
More on AC Transit's long-awaited bus service realignment (Oaklandside)
Transportation agencies call for applicants to Interagency Equity Advisory Committee (SCV News)
Orange County Transportation Authority allocates $42.4 million for local transportation, including trolleys (KTLA)
LA Mayor streamlines sidewalk repair process (LA Times)
Miles of warehouses are changing Riverside County (LA Times)
The pros and cons of hydrogen (Knee Deep Times)
Amazon and Google look to nuclear power for data centers and AI power hogs (LA Times)
Carbon markets are on solid legal ground, could expand (E&E News)
Republicans claim CARB's amendments to low carbon fuel program would raise gas prices (LA Times)
How does the Wall Street Journal get away with headlines like this?

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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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