Today’s Headlines

8:38 AM PDT on September 6, 2022

CA approves new climate measures (NY Times)
"Demand response" helps avert blackouts - with attention, we can easily conserve energy (Bloomberg)
- Even with energy demand surging (Bloomberg)
Electric vehicles are adding only a small amount of demand to the grid (Spectrum News)
Other states consider adopting CA's ban on sales of new gas cars (Spectrum, PBS)
CA approves SANDAG regional plan that includes local road user charge (The Coast News)
Universal basic mobility is fundamental and necessary (CityFi)
California to offer e-bike incentives (KPBS)
E-bikes could be a "gateway" to more human-centered planning (Treehugger)
Skepticism about potential tax break for being car-free (LAist)
Generation gap over what a car means (NY Times)
BART celebrates 50 years with swag, discounts, arcades (Mercury News)
BART needs to work with changing commute schedules (SF Chronicle)
BART extension to San Jose coming into focus (Planetizen)
CA police killed nearly 1,000 people in 6 years (SF Chronicle)
CA could allow vacant strip malls to be redeveloped as housing (Smart Cities Dive)

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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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