Today’s Headlines

8:35 AM PST on February 2, 2023

California shaping a plan to make ebikes affordable for low-income people (LA Times)
Self driving cars could greatly increase emissions (Dezeen)
Decades of highway construction and community destruction (AARP)
It's Infrastructure Decade: Now the work begins (Brookings)
Buttigieg on Vision Zero (Fast Company)
Work from home is an opportunity to shift transit planning from its focus on commutes (Forbes)
Money money money:
- CA grants for transit (Railway Age)
- Federal grants for transit, too (Ro Khanna)
- Federal grants for Safe Streets (Senator Feinstein)
San Francisco will develop a homeless response team in place of police (SF Chronicle)
Refineries regularly dump toxic chemicals into San Francisco Bay (SF Examiner)
Oil companies post record profits (Politico, Washington Post)
Stunningly high natural gas bills (Bloomberg) might drop soon (LAist)
Cities all over California miss a deadline to update their housing elements - giving up funding and local control (Mercury News, SF Chronicle)
HCD rejected Berkeley's proposed housing element as inadequate (Daily Californian)
Costco to build housing with its mega stores? (Eat This, Not That!)

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, 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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