Thursday’s Headlines

San Diego to install police surveillance cameras, license plate readers citywide; SLO gets electric buses; LA plans a "superblock" pilot; More

8:59 AM PDT on August 2, 2023

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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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