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Think like Amazon to make transportation sustainable; Administrator of CA e-bike program under investigation; Richmond wants to tax Chevron's output; More

By Melanie Curry

8:19 AM PDT on June 18, 2024

Chevron refinery, Richmond. Image: Center for Land Use Interpretation

Cheap, easy, good: Think like Amazon to decarbonize transportation (NextCity)
Another take on that book everyone’s talking about: Killed by a Traffic Engineer (Planetizen)
Administrator of CA’s e-bike incentive program under investigation (San Diego Union Tribune, BikinginLA)
CA bill would prohibit modifying an e-bike to make it go faster (Electrek, CBS8)
A design proposal for SF’s Powell Street would turn it into a pedestrian paradise (Arch Daily)
Tap-to-pay transit fare systems are cash poor, but data rich (Government Technology)
Demolish SF’s Central Freeway (SF Standard)
Report: CA Coastal Commission stymies affordable housing (Times of San Diego)
Caltrans begins selling homes they seized for never-built freeway (The Real Deal)
Here’s what UC Berkeley plans to build on People’s Park (Berkeleyside)
People are back in their cars post-COVID, and congestion is worse (Fox40)
What the U.S. can learn from Los Angeles about regulating ADUs (Arch Daily)
City of Richmond considering a tax on oil refining inside city – that would mean Chevron (Mercury News)

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Melanie Curry

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