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8:28 AM PST on January 7, 2022

    • Oakland testing Universal Basic Mobility program, giving money directly to people for transit, bikeshare (City of Oakland)
    • The US needs to do better for biking (Wired)
    • Soon, car ads in France will be required to remind people driving a car is best avoided (Gizmodo)
    • Emissions generated by four families in a week (Time)
    • Buttigieg: Steering innovation toward the public good (TechCrunch)
    • Pandemic is keeping hundreds of public safety, healthcare, transit workers and teachers away from work (AP)
    • 200 affordable homes proposed near Fruitvale BART (Mercury News)
    • Fire risk could stop proposed luxury housing development near Santa Rosa (SF Chronicle)
    • Cupertino, nearby cities endorse ballot measure to overturn state housing laws (Mercury News)
    • How CA and other states could transform U.S. trucking (Bloomberg)
    • An explanation of the Gann Limit (cap on spending in CA) (CA Budget & Policy Center)

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