Today’s Headlines

8:20 AM PDT on October 26, 2022

Oil companies are spending big on the CA election (SF Chronicle)
What would a tax on oil and gas "windfall profits" do, exactly? (CalMatters)
Oil company Valero's profits are soaring while gas prices rise (Office of Governor Gavin Newsom)
Our emotional dependence on gas prices is a toxic relationship (NY Times)
SMART allots $14 million for a second Petaluma station (Mass Transit)
Railroad unions: Rail infrastructure should be publicly owned, here's why (Freight Waves)
Bridge bike lane opponents - with the name Coalition for Transportation Justice - claim it "increases congestion" (the traffic is doing that all by itself) (Mercury News, East Bay Times)
Rebalancing bike-share for love and money (Bloomberg)
Denver's e-bike rebates are so popular they've had to pause the program (Rocky Mountain PBS)
San Francisco increases community ambassadors for public safety (SF Standard)
San Diego residents are falling into homelessness faster than they can be housed (Voice of San Diego)

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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