Today’s Headlines
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8:29 AM PDT on October 26, 2021
- Anticipating a Halloween nightmare of traffic in San Francisco (SF Chronicle)
- South Monterey County celebrates opening of transit operations center, serving rural areas (King City Rustler)
- Clean a stretch of California highway, earn money (Record Searchlight)
- Controversial parking garage for Dublin BART still not built (Mercury News)
- Federal officials say BART extension to San Jose could cost twice as much as original estimate (Mercury News)
- State Democratic party defers decision on banning contributions from fossil fuel, law enforcement groups (SF Chronicle)
- Why do Americans shrug off traffic violence? (NBC News)
- Tesla drivers can pay insurance rates based on how well they drive, as observed in real time by their vehicles (The Verge)
- Tiny methane leaks in homes have big impacts (Yale Climate Connections)
- California is redrawing government districts statewide and locally (CalMatters)
More California headlines at Streetsblog LA and Streetsblog SF
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