Today’s Headlines
More California headlines at Streetsblog LA and Streetsblog SF
8:23 AM PDT on June 2, 2022
- Climate change is here (IPCC)
- Court rules Biden’s “social cost of carbon” is reasonable – but it is still too low (Vox)
- Years after houses were destroyed to build it, Lake Merritt BART station will see new housing (Oaklandside)
- How modernizing payment systems improves the transit experience (Gov Tech)
- Legislators propose their own budget, without payments to car owners (AP, Sacramento Bee)
- Gas prices so high, people are buying bikes! (ABC)
- Millbrae plans housing where high speed rail station would go (San Mateo Daily Journal)
- High-speed ferry begin used on Bay routes (BayLink)
- Measuring the magnetic fields of cities can explain… some things (E&T)
- The poetry of public transit (Commonwealth Magazine)
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