Today’s Headlines
8:31 AM PDT on June 6, 2023
- San Francisco isn’t dead yet, but will be if the state doesn’t save transit (SF Chronicle)
- What Oakland stands to lose if transit goes away (Oaklandside)
- What Bay Area transit can learn from Switzerland (Seamless Bay Area)
- What keeps us from walking? (Rice University)
- More landslides close RR tracks at San Clemente, again (there’s a bus) (AP, Los Angeles Times)
- CA gets $64M from federal government to improve railroad crossings (ABC)
- Bill to require drivers in driverless trucks advances in CA (Transport Dive)
- CA DMV is cracking down on disabled parking placard abuse (Sacramento Bee)
- CA steps up plan to divest from fossil fuels (OC Register)
- Study: Use of fossil fuels disproportionately impacts Black, brown, indigenous, and poor people (Greenpeace)
- Biden is ignoring the menace of giant EVs (The Atlantic)
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