Today’s Headlines
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8:42 AM PDT on September 20, 2017
- Ventura pedestrian overpass to close for upgrades (Ventura County Star)
- Napa transit to buy electric buses (Napa Valley Register)
- Judge rules state’s proposed language on tax repeal measure is misleading (LA Times)
- Climate change science has plenty of uncertainties–the biggest being how much pollution humans will continue to produce (NY Times)
- PPIC survey: Millenials support action on climate change
- Editorial: Sacramento must demand results from cap-and-trade funding (SF Chronicle)
- Electric bus travels 1,100 miles on a single charge (Inverse)
- Why smart cities are often bike friendly cities (Gov Tech)
- An update on high-speed rail in California (SF Curbed)
- The future of passenger rail in Kern County (Mass Transit)
- Amtrak’s California Zephyr still carrying passengers, for now (Aspen Public Radio)
- Opinion: The costs of high-speed rail are dwarfed by the costs of not building it (LA Times)
- Opinion: California’s top two primary led to more political cooperation (The Hill)
- The future of autonomous vehicles may not be what you imagine (Gov Tech)
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