Today’s Headlines
- More about those three fatal Bay Area bike crashes (ABC7)
- LA approves transportation sales tax measure for November ballot (LA Times)
- and an affordable housing initiative (CurbedLA)
- Air Resources Board recommends extending, adjusting cap and trade (Reuters)
- and approves zero emission vehicle rebate, pending funding (LA Times)
- For motorcycles: lane-splitting getting closer to being (officially) legal (Cycle World)
- This is no joke: we're running out of sand (NY Times)
- Friendships, and networking, matter: How L.A. and S.F. differ (LSE)
- A look at housing proposals in California and Massachusetts (City Observatory)
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