Wednesday’s Headlines

CA Assembly Committee Chairs announced: New Transpo Chair is Lori Wilson; Who lives in those new Oakland highrises? More than 500 unhoused people died in San Diego County this year; More

By Melanie Curry

8:19 AM PST on November 22, 2023

AFTER: The Highway 1 realignment at Gleason Beach in Sonoma County is Caltrans’s first project where the primary purpose was addressing the effects of sea-level rise. (Photo by John Huseby/ Caltrans)

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CA Assembly leader announces new committee chairs (LA Times)
New Assembly Transportation Chair is Lori Wilson (D-Suisun City)
Caltrans moves Highway 1 away from eroding coastline in Sonoma County (Patch)
Gap in Balboa Park's bus-only lane renders it useless at a peak time (KPBS)
SLO Transit adjusts schedules to increase reliability (KEYT)
Oakland's new downtown highrise apartments seem to be filling up. Who lives there? (Oaklandside)
Berkeley increases height limits on housing near UC campus (SF Chronicle)
More than 500 unhoused people died in San Diego County this year (San Diego Union Tribune)
The problem with claiming "net zero" emissions (Michigan Daily)
How will Brazil's new carbon market affect indigenous people there? (Reuters)

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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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