Today’s Headlines

8:26 AM PDT on September 29, 2022

Video: Clean Air Day is next week (SacRT)
Developing a Greenhouse Gas Index to quantify emissions from products and policies (Resources)
Eight bike trails that "teach you about L.A." (LA Times)
The hottest new car on the market is an e-bike (Wall Street Journal)
They tried! Journalists ride 17 transit agencies in a day (SF Chronicle)
Stuck on the streets of SF in a driverless car (NY Times)
MTC adopts new transit-oriented development policy for Bay Area (MTC)
We just can't seem to kick the car habit (Metropolis)
How much money Tesla has received from California subsidies (SF Chronicle)
Data from twenty Guaranteed Basic Income programs show that they are a lifeline (CityLab)
Lack of data makes protecting renters more difficult (Terner Center)
LA moves closer to ending COVID rent protections (LA Times)
LA County supes propose permanent rent protections (LA Times)
Street food vendors can now operate legally; here's how (L.A. Taco)

More California headlines at Streetsblog LA and Streetsblog SF

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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