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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

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  • 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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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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