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Today’s Headlines

8:25 AM PDT on August 5, 2020

    • Counties strike deal on Caltrain ballot measure (Green Caltrain, KQED, SF Chronicle)
    • Sausalito thinks about affordable housing on the waterfront (SF Chronicle)
    • Costa Mesa gets a grant to reimagine a busy corridor (LA Times)
    • Driving reductions during COVID are not reducing GHGs much (UC Riverside)
    • UK PROPOSES banning SUV ads as SUVs are a major contributor to rising emissions (Guardian)
    • Podcast: What it's like to be a Black planner in California (CP&DR)
    • Firefighters are responding to emergencies by bike in this Massachusetts town (Firehouse)
    • High speed rail's true barrier is space, not money (Governing)

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