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By Melanie Curry

8:44 AM PST on January 9, 2020

City of Santa Cruz passes ordinance requiring consideration of “Health in All Policies” (Santa Cruz Sentinel)
Long Beach approves funds to improve a bike lane, and parking lots (Signal Tribune)
Lots of investment in U.S. transit in the past decade, but not enough (The Transport Politic)
The top California planning stories of the 2010s (California Planning and Development Report)
CA’s renewable energy mandates have helped reduce carbon emissions, but several Republicans want to pause them (CalMatters)
Governor Newsom calls for new money to help homeless (LA Times)
Stop calling Elon Musk’s Boring tunnel public transit (Curbed)
U.S. Democrats announce sweeping climate legislation (The Hill)
Feds are not really interested in regulating AVs (Politico)

More California headlines at Streetsblog LA and Streetsblog SF

Melanie Curry

Today's Headlines

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