Friday’s Headlines
The state is hanging transit out to dry, and that is bad; BART board votes to increase fares and parking fees; DMV approves Mercedes-Benz "eyes-off" autopilot for CA highways; More
8:24 AM PDT on June 9, 2023
- California is hanging transit out to dry (Transportation 4 America)
- Hey, Newsom: Cutting transit funding is a really bad idea (NY Times)
- Democrats say Newsom backed out of a deal to save transit (SF Chronicle)
- San Francisco action briefly blocks free offramp to protest transit crisis (SF Standard)
- The world is coming to SF. Will transit be ready? (SPUR)
- BART board votes to increase fares and parking fees (KTVU)
- Food banks also face a crisis (CalMatters)
- Police flex their muscle on state bills (LA Times)
- Nineteen states sue US EPA over California’s ban on future diesel truck sales, er, “radical climate agenda” (Transport Topics)
- DMV approves use of Mercedes-Benz “eyes-off” automated cars under specific conditions throughout CA (Reuters, Tech Crunch)
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