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Today’s Headlines

8:34 AM PST on February 24, 2023

    • BART tells its cops to get out of their cars and walk around on the train (Mercury News)
    • Fare-dependent transit systems are having a harder time recovering from pandemic (The Bond Buyer)
    • Why subways cost so damn much (Slate)
    • San Diego expands transit oriented zoning (Planetizen)
    • Can industry keep up with CA move to electrify trucks? (Grist)
    • Uber Freight begins testing electric trucks in CA (Chicago Sun-Times)
    • More than 100,000 people have died from COVID in California (LA Times)
    • The majority of Escondido's money for homelessness went to cops, not services (Voice of San Diego)

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