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)

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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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