Thursday’s Headlines

• San Diego to install “smart streetlights” citywide, with police surveillance cameras and license plate readers (San Diego Union Tribune)
• San Luis Obispo prepares to launch electric buses (KSBY)
• Increasing risk of Valley fever in California (LA Times)
• CA company pleads guilty to selling kits to defeat emission controls (Sacramento Bee)
• CA could pay people to build ADUs (Business Insider)
• Feds need transit data; Transit operators scrambling to gather it (Route Fifty)
• Data on speed limits is hard to find (Route Fifty)
• How communities can protect themselves from ever-larger vehicles (The Conversation)
• LA plans a “superblock” pilot, following Barcelona model (Arch Daily)
• New York lawmakers propose speed limiters on the vehicles of repeat offenders (GovTech)
• July’s heat was no joke (Slate)

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