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

By Melanie Curry

8:24 AM PDT on June 9, 2023

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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)

Find more California headlines at Streetsblog LA and Streetsblog SF

Melanie Curry

@StreetsblogCal

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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