Today’s Headlines

8:38 AM PDT on October 14, 2022

Crocket residents urged to protect themselves from hydrogen sulfide from treatment plant (Mercury News)
Orange County bus service could be suspended Monday (LA Times)
Caltrans evicts large homeless encampment in Oakland (Prism Reports)
Erosion-threatened rail line receives $300m to develop relocation plan (ENR)
Bay Area transit board elections: AC Transit, BART leaders will navigate uncertain future (Mercury News)
More on vetoed bill that would have given students free transit (Daily Bruin)
California leads the nation in cleaning up school buses (CARB)
Today's U.S. Supreme Court hearing on pig pens could affect California environmental laws (Legal Planet)
Work-from-home is doing a number on office real estate values (NBER)
Who's to blame for high gas prices? (CalMatters)
Reason Foundation is delirious because anti-HSR hack Vartabedian got published in the NY Times, thus "proving" they were right

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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