Thursday’s Headlines

• LA Metro offers free transit in the midst of the fires, outages (Daily News)
  • Here’s a list of service changes and detours due to wildfires (NBC)
• SF Muni plans service cuts as they face that fiscal cliff we’ve been warned about (SF Chronicle)
• Marin transit operators realign service coordination (Marin Independent Journal)
• Goleta gets federal grant to complete a bike and pedestrian undercrossing at Highway 101 (SB Independent)
• The secret to a better city is a two-wheeler (Mother Jones)
• An e-bike that can easily replace a car (Forbes)
• Planned expansion of Highway 37 adds salt marsh restoration; EIR still claims “no significant impact” (Marin Independent Journal)
• More on CA leaders asking for federal transportation money before administration transitions (Smart Cities Dive)
• Biden has less than two weeks to approve CA rules on truck and rail emissions (Politico)
• There’s profit to be reaped from California’s first carbon capture facility (Carbon Credits)
• AI’s high energy use has tremendous impacts on air pollution (Route Fifty)

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