Today’s Headlines
More California headlines at Streetsblog LA and Streetsblog SF
8:48 AM PDT on September 27, 2019
- Trump fired a panel of air pollution researchers a year ago. Now they are meeting on their own (The Guardian)
- San Diego’s shift to transit is long overdue (Voice of San Diego)
- BART chooses new fare gates (SF Chronicle)
- Northern reaches of Santa Monica beach bike paths to see improvements (Santa Monica Lookout)
- Quick build initiative is transforming the streets of San Francisco (Planetizen)
- Zero emission vehicles will save money, but need supportive policies (UC Davis)
- The myth of “green cars” (New Statesman)
- More about California Tropical Forest Standard (Earth.com)
- California readies plans to launch “its own damn satellite” to measure climate change (LA Times)
- Honolulu’s bad tactic for unsafe pedestrian crossings: remove crosswalks (Honolulu Civil Beat)
- No thank you: Uber wants its app to be indispensable to city residents (The Verge)
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