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Newsom's budget proposal puts corporate profits over people; Big deadline tomorrow; Transit agencies need lots of new maintenance workers; More

By Melanie Curry

8:44 AM PDT on May 23, 2024

Image: California Air Resources Board

Note: Streetsblog sites in California will take an extra long weekend, and be back on Tuesday

California has a climate deficit (CalBike)
Governor’s budget cuts put corporate profits over people (The Budget Center)
- Climate programs would lose billions (CalMatters)
Friday is a big deadline for bills in CA legislature (Capitol Weekly)
Transit agencies need to hire and train more maintenance workers (Governing)
Federal spending helped save public transit, an “essential service,” during COVID. What now? (NY Times)
Millions in state and federal funding coming for infrastructure repairs in San Mateo County (Patch)
Parklets in Upland? Yes. But first, trees need to be removed (Daily Bulletin)
Report: There is a lot of single-family-zoned land in California (Othering and Belonging)
Cars in CA could alert drivers if they go over speed limit (Transport Topics, Spectrum)
Stop driving cars onto pedestrian paths (Carscoops)
Where do states stash their rainy day funds? (Governing)

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Melanie Curry

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