Today’s Headlines

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)

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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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