Today’s Headlines

8:23 AM PDT on May 22, 2023

Governor Newsom proposes "sweeping changes" to CEQA (CalMatters)
- It's a "bold plan" to to expedite transportation, water, clean energy and other major infrastructure projects (Sacramento Bee)
- What's in it (Capital Public Radio)
Without CEQA, California would be much worse off (CalMatters)
"We can't cut our way out of this" - Individual transit agencies have to make their case (CalMatters)
Youth in the Inland Empire want to lead on climate issues (Daily Bulletin)
Some cities want people to keep using bikes (AP)
Cruise and Waymo are close to getting permission to run driverless taxis in San Francisco 24/7 (Tech Crunch)
Here's a bike with triangle wheels (Gizmodo)

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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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