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Transit safety approaches differ; Exxon sues shareholders to shut them up about climate; Details emerging about Newsom's budget proposal; More

8:32 AM PDT on May 15, 2024

  • LA Times helpfully lists recent stabbings, fights on and near L.A. Metro system
  • BART crisis intervention program takes a proactive approach to safety (KQED)
  • Time to finish what we started with BART extension to San Jose (Mercury News)
  • AC Transit releases a reworked draft service plan (Alameda Post)
  • CA offering gift cards for drivers to help test its gas tax alternative (LA Times, Yahoo)
  • Exxon sues its own shareholders to keep them quiet about climate (LA Times)
  • Arizona - and fifteen other states - are trying to block CA clean truck rules (AZPM)
  • Details about Newsom budget proposal emerging: money for corporate climate laws, delays to other climate programs (E&E News)

Find more California headlines at Streetsblog LA and Streetsblog SF

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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