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    • Complete streets spur economic development (Planetizen)
    • Democrats balk at idea of a gas tax holiday (Planetizen)
    • At the federal level, costs of pausing the gas tax would be high (Politico)
    • Oopsie! After declaring CA high-speed rail dead, Railway Age now admits it is not
    • And CA HSR is already delivering economic benefits (Mass Transit)
    • Caltrans District 5 (Central Coast) releases its Active Transportation Plan (Benito Link)
    • California Bicycle Coalition warns that A.B. 371 would kill bike, scooter share
    • Long-range electric buses make Silver Line all the way to San Pedro possible (Mass Transit)
    • Bill would eliminate parking requirements near transit statewide (Abundant Housing LA)
    • Court rules federal agencies can't use social cost of carbon in their climate calculations (Washington Post)
    • Sacramentans to vote on outlawing homelessness, basically. As if. (Cap Radio)
    • Remote work will change cities (Pew)
    • State still battling over Uber, Lyft driver classifications (SF Chronicle)

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