Today’s Headlines
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8:35 AM PDT on May 17, 2023
- Is this the year California okays speed cameras? (LA Times)
- What’s missing from Newsom’s budget proposal (CalBike)
- Congressmembers urge NHTSA to prioritize pedestrian safety in vehicle ratings (Rep. Raskin)
- King County explores fare-free transit (NBC)
- Planned bike lanes in Berkeley fall victim to … something very murky (Berkeleyside)
- Taylor Swift is giving transit a (temporary) boost (Governing)
- What Brussels learned – and can teach – about reducing car dependency (Bloomberg)
- Why downtown stores are closing (it’s not because of crime) (CNN)
- Beautification and photo-ops vs radical reimagination of cities (Free Press Journal)
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