Today’s Headlines
More California headlines at Streetsblog LA and Streetsblog SF
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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