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Fare capping is a thing; San Joaquin Regional Transit is doing fine; Evictions are rising; More

By Melanie Curry

8:48 AM PDT on August 9, 2023

Image: LA Metro

Transit agencies are adopting fare capping policies (GovTech)
San Joaquin Regional Transit has a nice operating budget to work with (ABC10)
Government can be agile when it wants to be (Governing)
E-bus manufacturer Proterra files for bankruptcy so it can "reorganize" (Metro)
Here's a map of where in the world governments are trying carbon pricing policies (Visual Capitalist)
In Alameda, eviction filings are overwhelming the court (Oaklandside)
Remote work offered some workers a reprieve from racism (LA Times)
Even Zoom employees are being required to return to in-person work (SF Standard)
A chemical used to reduce tire wear is killing fish (Mercury News)

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Melanie Curry

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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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