Today’s Headlines
More California headlines at Streetsblog LA and Streetsblog SF
7:44 AM PDT on May 25, 2017
- Latest cap and trade auction is a success (Sacramento Bee)
- Delivery robots come to the UC Berkeley campus (Berkeleyside)
- Governor Brown visits polluted L.A. neighborhoods that aren’t seeing benefits from climate policies (LA Times)
- San Mateo County increases $ for affordable housing, reduces cuts to paratransit (Green Caltrain)
- A brief history of the battle over the 710 freeway extension (LA Times)
- Rural Fresno to get solar powered charging stations (Sys-Con)
- Who killed the GAO study of rising transit costs? (Vox)
- Republicans are still trying to get mileage out of the idea that Brown is “diverting” gas tax money: hey peeps, everything in the bill—public transportation, bike infrastructure, research—contributes to better transportation for everyone (Bakersfield Now)
- Great—the man in charge of U.S. housing thinks poverty is “a state of mind” (USA Today)
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