Today’s Headlines
More California headlines at Streetsblog LA and Streetsblog SF
8:18 AM PST on February 22, 2022
- Governments spend way WAY more on subsidizing climate-harming industries, practices than on offsets (Quartz)
- Palm Springs is working on improving pedestrian safety (NBC)
- Cars kill. Bike helmets don’t change that (Bicycling)
- Even freeways that don’t get built leave scars (LA Times)
- Freeways make expensive wildlife crossings necessary- construction on one begins in Santa Cruz mountains (Mercury News)
- Major service cuts on LA County bus and rail begin today (LA Times, Mass Transit)
- Bay Area transit is quiet, stations empty (Mercury News)
- Public transit inspires poetry (LA Times)
- Can Los Angeles shake its “anti-bicycling” reputation? (Momentum Mag)
- Two CA bills address street harassment (Yahoo)
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