Friday’s Headlines

SF unveils weak bike plan; MTC finds emergency money for Bay Area transit agencies; CARB readies to work on cap-and-trade update; More

By Melanie Curry

8:14 AM PST on November 22, 2024

Market Street in San Francisco

LA is a walking town (LA Times)
SF unveils new citywide bike plan, with no deadlines or guarantees (SF Chronicle)
MTC finds $300 million in emergency funding for Bay Area transit agencies (Mass Transit)
Caltrans receives $19M for passenger and freight rail improvements in the Central Valley (Caltrans)
Santa Clara VTA to launch speed and reliability improvement program (Mass Transit)
SF Muni launches grant-funded on-demand shuttle service in Bayview Hunters Point (KQED)
Don't park at the corner: that's how to avoid a parking ticket under new "daylighting" law (SF Chronicle)
After its vote on low carbon fuel standards, all eyes are on CARB's upcoming cap-and-trade updates (Politico)
Suisun city approves giant warehouse project (Daily Republic)
California state budget is "roughly balanced"… for now (CalMatters)

Find more California headlines at Streetsblog LA and Streetsblog SF

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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