Monday’s Headlines

BART fares going up again; Making public spaces safe for children; Not all e-bikes are street legal; More

8:06 AM PST on December 2, 2024

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Caltrans grants $8.5M for "green" design for Sierra Madre Blvd median project in Pasadena (Pasadena Now)
Electrifying Caltrain was a "game changer" (Railway Supply)
Video: The future of US passenger rail, with Secretary Buttigieg (YouTube)
BART fares are going up again (SF Chronicle)
OCTA acquires forty hydrogen buses (Fuel Cell Works)
How public spaces can be safer and more welcoming for children (The Conversation)
Not all e-bikes you can buy are street legal (Independent)
Has demand for clean energy been underestimated? (Vox)
What is work-from-home doing to us? (Slate)

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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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