Today’s Headlines
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8:35 AM PDT on April 5, 2023
- America has invested heavily in parking, and it’s killing the economy (Business Insider)
- Many people have very large auto loans, and struggle to pay them off (Sacramento Bee)
- The connections between cars, debt, and jail (Public Books)
- Can public transit recover? (CalMatters)
- EVs won’t save us – we need sustainable transit (Chicago Policy Review)
- SFMTA drops proposal to make Clay Street transit lane permanent (SFGate)
- Santa Clara VTA moves to seize properties for San Jose BART project (East Bay Times)
- April Fools’ Day pranks by transit agencies (The Buzzer)
- Six minutes on a bike can boost your brain power (Bicycle Network)
- This is what ebikes can do for everyone (Diablo Magazine)
- Picking apart Mitt Romney’s claim that bike lanes increase emissions (Mother Jones)
- What cities can do about the most dangerous drivers (Bloomberg)
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