Today’s Headlines
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8:50 AM PST on March 1, 2023
- More on frightening rise in pedestrian deaths (Route Fifty, SmartCitiesDive, Forbes)
- Anti-BART Senator Glazer resigns from Senate Select Committee on transit, which hasn’t met yet (San Francisco Standard, Mercury News)
- How much is transit worth to California? (CalMatters)
- SUVs’ global emissions are more than most countries, and growing (The Guardian)
- CA forms a select committee to study repairing damage to communities from building freeways through them (CalMatters)
- More on federal grants to reconnect communities (Washington Post)
- Why cities are embracing car-free streets (City Monitor)
- How SF saved its car-free promenade (CNU)
- How cities and counties are spending COVID funds (Route Fifty)
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