Today’s Headlines

8:42 AM PDT on June 9, 2022

Have you read the IPCC report on climate change yet?
CARB to hold hearing on standards for zero-emission vehicles (Union of Concerned Scientists)
Build a seawall? Reinforce the cliffs? Relocate the tracks? Officials struggle to find solution for trainline threatened by crumbling cliffs at Del Mar (E&E)
PG&E pledges to produce zero carbon, and will keep using gas (AP)
Europe to ban fossil-fueled cars (Reuters)
San Francisco is giving out e-bikes to be used for deliveries (Electrek)
The quietly transformative Omnibike bill (CalBike)
The revolt of the pedestrians (Slate)
In Stanislaus this July, transit will be free (Riverbank News)
BART will cut fares 50 percent in September to celebrate its 50th anniversary (SF Chronicle)
Less parking could mean more housing (PEW)
Cops protected executive who killed teen with his car (LA Times)

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Streetsblog California editor Melanie Curry has been thinking about transportation, and how to improve conditions for bicyclists, ever since commuting to school by bike long before bike lanes were a thing. She was Managing Editor at the East Bay Express, editor of Access Magazine for the University of California Transportation Center, and earned her Masters in City Planning from UC Berkeley.

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