Friday’s Headlines
Money for clean transportation projects and highways; Petaluma offers free on-demand rideshare; Waymo tries to nudge riders to take transit; More
8:21 AM PDT on October 18, 2024
- Caltrans awards $206m for clean local transportation projects (Bay Area Metro)
- $200m in federal grants for CA highway improvements (Senator Alex Padilla)
- Petaluma tests free on-demand shuttles (Petaluma 360)
- On San Francisco ballot: an initiative to make Uber, Lyft support public transit (Politico)
- Waymo is testing out a credit for riders who use its vehicles to reach public transit (Clean Technica, Waymo)
- Uber and Lyft can be critical for reaching medical care (California Health Line)
- Berkeleyside came up with a perfect combination: a Public Transit Beer Trail
- Microplastics are everywhere (Heated)
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