Thursday’s Headlines

Get ready for an uphill battle on climate, environment, rail... basically everything in CA; Nationwide transit ballot measures did well but not so much in CA; More

By Melanie Curry

8:17 AM PST on November 7, 2024

Photo: CV Makhijani

CA faces an uphill battle on climate, environment with Trump win (LA Times)
- Passenger rail will likely face a tough road as well (Trains)
- As will clean transportation in general (Union of Concerned Scientists)
- Well, everything in California (CalMatters)
Nationwide, transit ballot measures are doing well (Mass Transit)
- But San Diego's Measure G to support transit is trailing (Axios, KPBS)
- And SF's proposed tax on Uber, Lyft to fund transit has majority support but needs 2/3 (SF Examiner)
Placer County "traffic relief" tax measure for highways is falling short (Sacramento Bee)
Transit agencies nationwide turn to camera enforcement to keep bus lanes clear (GovTech)
SMART awarded $18 million to extend northward (RT&S)
Santa Monica gets $53 million to electrify buses, fund more service (Santa Monica Mirror)
How to fight e-bike backlash (CalBike)
San Francisco opens a new park on an old polluted waterfront site (Bay Nature)

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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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