Today’s Headlines

9:30 AM PST on January 4, 2023

New bike and walk laws taking effect in California (Bike East Bay)
Study: CA police more likely to stop, search, and use force against Black teens than anyone (but not necessarily cite them) (AP)
An old CA rule banning trucks and buses made before 2010 finally goes into effect (KCRA)
Warehouses are slowly killing the Inland Empire (The Guardian)
Diversity: How closely does the new CA legislature reflect the state's residents? (CalMatters)
How new state housing laws affect the LA Planning Department (Planetizen)
Federal budget includes $405M for transit related projects (Mass Transit)

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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SBCTA Could Finally End One of the Country’s Worst Zombie Projects: The ONT Connector

“The ONT Connector is an inappropriate investment. Ridership capacity and public transportation utility do not support spending billions of dollars for it. Scrapping the project is the right decision. Electric rail to ONT is the appropriate decision,” writes Kevin Dedicatoria, The Transit Coalition, Community Consultant.