Today’s Headlines

8:30 AM PDT on April 14, 2021

The case for a transit-first infrastructure plan (CityLab)
Bill to ban fracking - and require setbacks around oil wells - dies in committee (SF Chronicle)
Sacramento Bee "unearths" a report saying what's been known all along - gas taxes are not enough to fix all the roads CA already has
Recycled plastic in roads? Bill to study the issue advances (Coronado Times)
- But maybe keep microplastic, particulate pollution in mind (Wired)
Bill would allow school buses to use cameras to enforce speed violations (Spectrum News)
Special treatment: CA politicians may be fined for campaign violations, but that doesn't mean they pay or anything (CalMatters)

More California headlines at Streetsblog LA and Streetsblog SF

Streetsblog California editor Melanie Curry has been thinking about transportation, and how to improve conditions for bicyclists, ever since commuting to school by bike long before bike lanes were a thing. She was Managing Editor at the East Bay Express, editor of Access Magazine for the University of California Transportation Center, and earned her Masters in City Planning from UC Berkeley.

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