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

By Melanie Curry

8:00 AM PDT on April 19, 2024

Proposed changes to West Portal in SF – not car-free. Source: Courtesy Supervisor Myrna Melgar

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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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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