Today’s Headlines
More California headlines at Streetsblog LA and Streetsblog SF
8:45 AM PST on February 5, 2019
- Pedestrian deaths are a public health crisis (MNN.com)
- New study shows pollution from traffic affects student’s test scores, school performance (CityLab)
- Self-driving cars could more than double San Francisco traffic (SF Chronicle)
- US Postal Service begins acquiring electric vehicles in Central Valley (PR Newswire)
- S.B. 100 is moving CA cities towards zero-emission futures (CityLab)
- Sacramento will soon get Jump scooters (Sacramento Bee)
- It’s been The Year of the Scooter (The Drive)
- Mapping wealth in Los Angeles (Nick Underwood)
- San Jose gives $100 million to eleven affordable housing developments (Silicon Valley Business Journal)
- Gee, how wonderful: Soon it will no longer be illegal for homeless people to live in cars in San Diego (San Diego Union Tribune)
More California headlines at Streetsblog LA and Streetsblog SF
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