Today’s Headlines

8:12 AM PDT on March 28, 2023

Transit in crisis, and how to save it (Vox)
FTA announces disaster relief funding for transit (Planetizen)
LA Daily News searches for reasons why LA Metro rail plans were not funded by the state
"Clean Air Conversations" will focus on transit (Pasadena Now)
Legislature passes bill to investigate oil price gouging with alacrity (LA Times, Mercury News, Sacramento Bee, AP)
City of Santa Clarita prepares to go all-in on hydrogen (Signal SCV)
San Diego to receive $37M in state funds to stabilize bluffs above rail line (RT&S)
SF announces new plan to add housing downtown (SF Chronicle)
To reduce crime, end evictions (Jacobin)
Do people really want sprawl? (Planetizen)
Parking lots eat cities (Big Think)
Regulate SUVs to death (Financial Times)
To get more women to bike, have women design better bike infrastructure (The Conversation)
Salinas' local newspaper has no reporters (LA Times)

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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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