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Today’s Headlines

8:33 AM PDT on September 19, 2022

    • California could choose housing over parking (if Governor Newsom signs the bill) (Slate)
    • Why jaywalking laws should be abolished (Traffic Technology Today)
    • Newsom signs climate bills (The Hill, Epoch Times)
    • New law will accelerate transition to zero emission buses (PR Newswire)
    • Highway boondoggles (OC Register prefers to call them "transportation boondoggles") waste money
    • Jurors can now have transit trips to court paid for under new law (SF Gate)
    • Transit enthusiasts will attempt to ride all 27 Bay Area transit agencies in one day (SF Chronicle)
    • Approvals clear path for major transit-oriented complex near San Bruno BART station (Mercury News)
    • High-speed rail program hits another milestone: overcrossing completed in Kings County (RT&S)
    • Construction to being on multipurpose path along Highway 101 in Carpinteria (Noozhawk)
    • Santa Clara redoing plan for El Camino Real (Patch)
    • Former officials, now oil lobbyists, influence California climate policy (Capital & Main)
    • Fossil fuel extremism borders on a religion - and it's blasphemy to point out harms (Heated)
    • America has a public bathroom crisis (Futurist Speaker)
    • Why are rich people obsessed with urban crime? (Vice)

More California headlines at Streetsblog LA and Streetsblog SF

Melanie Curry

Streetsblog California editor Melanie Curry has been thinking about transportation, and how to improve conditions for bicyclists, since her early days commuting by bike to UCLA long ago. She was Managing Editor at the East Bay Express, and edited Access Magazine for the University of California Transportation Center. She also earned her Masters in City Planning from UC Berkeley.

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