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8:40 AM PST on December 7, 2022

    • It was never just about sick pay: Freight rail is in crisis (Vice)
    • The rail system is key for the trucking industry too (Transport Dive)
    • Sacramento City Council approves more protected bike lanes (Fox40)
    • NACTO says: Americans have taken half a billion trips on bike-share and e-scooters since 2010
    • San Francisco approves permanent Slow Streets (SF Chronicle)
    • Stanislaus transit agencies offering free public transportation for the holidays (Oakdale Leader)
    • BART will (eventually) give riders who enter and exit the same station a 30-minute grace period before charging its exorbitant "excursion" fare (SF Gate)
    • Pasadena makes plans to convert all its buses to zero emission by 2040 (Pasadena Now)
    • BART Basel: Guerrilla art show brings hundreds of riders to BART (Mass Transit)
    • Why transit projects are so expensive to build (Vice)
    • California moves forward on vision to harness power from offshore wind (CalMatters)
    • San Jose is learning to convert poop to power (Mercury News)
    • CA gets the thumbs-up for energy efficiency (The Hill)
    • When it rains, the cliffs slide onto Highway 1 (LA Times)
    • Bay Area airports are at bigger risk from sea level rise than previously thought (SF Chronicle)
    • Housing laws: by-right projects move faster, and other news briefs from California Planning & Development Report

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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