Today’s Headlines

• Can only tragic deaths make communities take traffic dangers seriously? (Diablo)
• San Francisco has begun lowering speed limits on some streets (SF Gate)
• California Budget and Policy Center and Legislative Analyst Office release analyses of Governor's budget proposal
• Newsom touts transportation, infrastructure elements of budget proposal (San Jose Spotlight)
• Assembly Speaker Rendon signals that he'll keep trying to kill high speed rail (Mercury News)
• And out the other side of his mouth, Rendon complains that California is no longer a climate leader (KCRW)
• Spin to suspend e-scooter services in Sacramento, other cities (Mass Transit)
• Don't Look Up is missing a real call to action (In These Times)
• OMG! "Environmentalists" think nuclear energy is "clean" (Grist)
• More legislators decline to run for re-election (CalMatters)
• Bike mechanics plead with manufacturers to stop making crap bikes (Vice)
• Every California county has high COVID rates (KTLA)

More California headlines at Streetsblog LA and Streetsblog SF

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