Tuesday’s Headlines

Not much progress in the hydrogen space, but CA is still investing; Caltrans creates equity tool; Saving BART; More

8:32 AM PDT on October 22, 2024

Photo by Joe Linton/Streetsblog L.A.

US is not making much progress on clean hydrogen - and transparency is a big problem (Canary Media)
But California is bent on investing in it (NGT News)
Law that changes definition of a "major transit stop" could have a profound impact on housing development (CoxCastle)
Going to the World Series game? For goodness sake, take public transit! (The Source)
Can the Bay Area save BART? (SF Chronicle)
Caltrans creates equity tool to learn from past mistakes (Silicon Valley)
Malibu "fights" to make its stretch of Pacific Coast highway less dangerous (LA Times)
San Benito County voters to consider growth limits (Mercury News)
Kern County approves carbon capture project that will prolong fossil fuel use but make $$ (CalMatters)

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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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