Today’s Headlines
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8:44 AM PDT on June 2, 2016
- Bill allowing smog exemption for old vehicles passes Senate Appropriations Committee (Systemic Failure)
- Video: Caltrans Director’s Bike Ride 2016 (YouTube)
- Fresno’s pedestrian mall destroyed, with pictures (Stop and Move)
- Caltrans awards $74.6 million for Low Carbon Transit Operations (SCVnews)
- Including South, East Bay transit projects (East Bay Times)
- Plans for San Luis Obispo County transportation tax measure shaping up (Edhat)
- We don’t need your stinking gas taxes! Just: forget HSR, use cap-and-trade for roads and general funds to pay off road debts (Fox and Hounds)
- Too many lives lost on our roads (AARP)
- Sea level rise and rail transportation in the East Bay (Urban Life Signs)
- Video: mayors of three CA cities (Oakland, Fresno, South Gate) address economic challenges (PPIC)
- World’s longest train tunnel (35 miles) opens through the Alps (NY Times)
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