Today’s Headlines

8:50 AM PDT on July 11, 2022

How's that air quality? Climate change looms (IPCC)
Federal DOT proposes a rule to measure on-road emission (Smart Cities Dive)
The 710 stub and California's transit future (Pasadena Star-News)
Long Beach begins dismantling the Gerald Desmond Bridge (gCaptain, Spectrum News)
State transit grants:
- Petaluma gets $13 million for a new train station (Mercury News)
- $33.5 million to Monterey Transit (KPBS)
- $38 million for e-busses, transit center in Humboldt (Times Standard)
Not that many have taken advantage of new housing density laws (SF Chronicle)
California cities are banning new gas stations (LA Times)
Truckers play dumb as deadline to comply with AB5 looms (Bloomberg)
Fresno bus drivers threaten strike (Fresno Bee)

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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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