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By Melanie Curry

8:33 AM PDT on April 1, 2022

Don’t be fooled: climate change is no joke (IPCC)
LA has the solutions for reducing traffic – it just has to use them (Zócalo Public Square)
Van Ness BRT opens in San Francisco, and ABC7 finds plenty to complain about
CA bill would mandate “seamless transit” in Bay Area (Planetizen)
- Why that’s needed (Transit Center)
Testing of trainsets on new Redlands tracks to begin this week (Redlands Community News)
Stockton launches e-bike and e-car share (ABC10)
Every city’s bikeway network should be as dense as its carway network (Forbes)
Guerrilla crosswalks in LA, because the city isn’t doing it (NPR)
CARB opens ZEV truck and bus incentives; $272 million requested within 24 hours (Green Car Congress)
- These giant Ford trucks and vans are eligible for the vouchers (Ford Authority)
25 current CA bills on clean energy, climate (LA Times)
Acting Governor Kounalakis signs eviction protection bill (Office of Governor)
- It extends some existing protections (AP)
- …but undercuts cities with stronger protections (Berkeleyside)

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