Friday’s Headlines
SF plans street redesign at crash site; Santa Cruz commission still supports plan to have both trail and rail; State budget includes subsidies for fossil fuel industry; Unhoused camping; More
8:00 AM PDT on April 19, 2024
- San Francisco plans a street redesign at site of deadly crash (SF Chronicle, SF Standard)
- Santa Cruz County transportation commission reaffirms support for rail plus trail plan (Santa Cruz Local)
- BART settles suit on elevator access (East Bay Times)
- More on SF’s parking enforcement sweeps (SF Chronicle)
- State budget still includes subsidies for fossil fuel industry (Capitol Weekly)
- A California bill would force industry to pay for pollution (Politico)
- Disneyland promises electric cars in Autopia by fall of 2026 (LA Times)
- Supreme Court to weigh in on whether bans against unhoused camping is legal (LA Times, CalMatters)
- A California bill to outlaw unhoused encampments got spiked (KQED)
- Google fires employees for protesting (Mercury News)
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