- Study: Earth already passed the climate threshold (Grist)
- AARP interviews people about what their communities were like before the interstate came through
- A history of freeway building and financing - and a look at the future (UCLA ITS)
- Santa Cruz transit is in transition (Good Times)
- Americans make a lot of unnecessarily long daily trips - but there's a better way (Bloomberg)
- High-speed rail is coming (LA Times)
- An overview of e-bike issues and concerns (Annenberg)
- San Francisco sets new standards for e-bike and scooter safety (now can they do cars?) (SF Examiner)
- Bill would give local leaders authority over AVs in their jurisdiction (Supply Chain Quarterly)
- Waymo AV hits a bike rider in San Francisco (Spectrum)
- States work together to ban fossil fuel use in heating (Route Fifty)
- CA's low carbon fuel standards support factory farms, pollution nationwide (Food and Water Watch)
- LA's "one weird trick" to increase affordable housing: fast-tracking approval (CalMatters)
- All these floods show how important sewer infrastructure is (The New Republic)
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