Wednesday’s Headlines

• Advocates push for permanent car-free Hayes Street in SF (SF Examiner)
• SF Supervisor calls for ban on right turns on red lights (SF Chronicle)
• Oakland lowers speed limits on several corridors (Oaklandside)
• Why aren't new cars safer for people outside them? (AP)
• Newsom should sign bill to clean up orphan oil wells (Capitol Weekly)
  • ...and to decriminalize fare evasion (CalBike)
• Pollution is expensive, and industry will have to pay (Clean Technica)
• Boost in solar energy and EV sales gives hope on climate, but….. (AP)
• New state watchdog questions recent gas price fluctuations in California (Politico, San Diego Union Tribune)
• AV industry is spending big on lobbying against safety (Jacobin)

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