Tuesday’s Headlines

Salinas Safe Routes project gets perfect score; San Diego ATP applications lose out on limited funding; Dangerous driving behavior is killing people; More

By Melanie Curry

8:32 AM PST on December 10, 2024

Image: Momentum Mag

With a "perfect score," Salinas is awarded nearly $10m for a safe school route project (KSBW)
16 San Diego projects applied for Active Transportation Program funding, zero got any (10 News)
AAA: Driver behavior - aggressive and distracted driving, speeding - is killing thousands (Smart Cities Dive)
Union of Concerned Scientists say that investing in clean and efficient transportation now could save lots of money in the future (Planetizen)
MTC votes to study options for sales tax measure to keep Bay Area transit moving (Politico, Palo Alto Daily Post)
LA Metro doesn't plan to end Metro Micro shuttle anytime soon despite costs (LAist)
SamTrans looking for ways to serve isolated Half Moon Bay area (Coastside News)
LA Metro announces service changes (KTLA)
SANDAG considering options for transit to airport, hampered by lack of funding (KPBS)
Greenhouse gases are global, so why is it okay to sell old diesel trains for use elsewhere? (Mass Transit)
Turning San Francisco's Great Highway into a pedestrian promenade is part of a larger climate adaptation plan (SPUR)
The stakes - and costs - are high in California's attempts to clean up trucking (CalMatters)
How high-speed rail won over the world (but not the U.S.) (The Urban Condition)
Santa Monica Airport Conversion project holds major public outreach meeting (Santa Monica Next)

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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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