Tuesday’s Headlines

City of Sacramento did not invest in roads, but paid in lawsuits; Bus-only lanes on Vermont Avenue; There's a lot of money sitting around on unused transit cards; More

By Melanie Curry

8:38 AM PST on December 3, 2024

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City of Sacramento did not invest in road safety, but paid out for car crash lawsuits on dangerous streets (Sacramento Bee)
LA Metro to add bus-only lanes to Vermont Ave (Press Telegram)
Santa Monica's Big Blue Bus plans to expand its electric fleet (Santa Monica Daily Press)
There's a LOT of money sitting around on unused Clipper cards (Mass Transit)
LA officials ask Trump to help fund Olympics transportation projects (LA Times, Mass Transit)
CA legislature sets cap on number of bills its members can introduce (still too many) (CalMatters)
Big Oil's plan for GOP control (Field Notes)

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Melanie Curry

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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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