Today’s Headlines

• 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