Today’s Headlines
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8:39 AM PST on February 8, 2022
- Governor Newsom appoints Caltrans Director Omishakin to lead its overseer, CalSTA (Office of Governor)
- More on state bill to help improve active transportation (SF Chronicle)
- Omicron hobbled SF Muni service (SF Chronicle)
- OCTA bus drivers consider strike (Orange County Register)
- How the USPS justifies buying gas-fueled trucks (Vice)
- Why are electric vehicles getting bigger? WHY? (Washington Post)
- Precautionary tale from Philadelphia: long-planned road diet scrapped (Inquirer)
- “Just transition” is not “net zero” (Greenbiz)
- Bay Area to homeowners: create space for homeless residents (Mercury News)
- When private equity is your landlord (ProPublica)
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