Today’s Headlines
More California headlines at Streetsblog LA and Streetsblog SF
8:47 AM PST on December 8, 2021
- Car crash fatalities surged during the pandemic (LA Times)
- GM self-driving taxi company claims its double parking is legal (Reuters)
- Alameda looks to address dangerous intersection where Supervisor was killed (ABC7)
- Transit as event: BART unwittingly hosts formal yet guerrilla Art Basel pop-up (SF Gate)
- Highway 46 is being widened through the center of Lost Hills for “safety” (KGET)
- Biden Administration sides with labor, threatening CA transit funding (Railway Age)
- Important steps to take for cleaner air (CalMatters)
- L.A. approves redistricting maps (LA Times)
- State redistricting process is messy – for reasons (CalMatters)
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