Today’s Headlines
More California headlines at Streetsblog LA and Streetsblog SF
8:17 AM PDT on June 13, 2022
- Climate change encroaches (IPCC)
- Summers are getting hotter (The Guardian)
- Residents protest state agency approval of new oil wells (LA Times)
- In the olden days, pedestrian deaths were not tolerated (Bloomberg)
- Stop spending billions to widen freeways (Daily Breeze)
- Some think it’s just gonna be too hard to ban fossil fuel vehicles (Desert Sun)
- Draft EIR for high-speed rail into San Francisco released (KRON4, CA High-Speed Rail Authority)
- SamTrans buys some electric buses (Electrive)
- Card and chip supplies are low, so BART encourages riders to use their phones to pay fares (SF Gate)
- For the price of a few tanks of gas, buy an e-bike (Electrek)
- Oakland plans to create a rental registry (Mercury News)
- San Jose may do away with parking requirements at new housing (East Bay Times)
More California headlines at Streetsblog LA and Streetsblog SF
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