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Wednesday’s Headlines

Study challenges Supreme Court ruling on climate emissions; Land use policies that reduce transportation emissions; Coastal Commish postpones hearing on bus road proposal; Hydrogen powered e-bikes??! More

  • Study challenges Supreme Court assertion that Congress did not mean to regulate climate emissions (360 Yale)
  • Using land use policies to reduce transportation emissions (Urban Institute)
  • SFMTA kills plan for bike lanes in Chinatown (SF Standard)
  • Napa's pedal-powered bike sweeper (CalBike)
  • Creating a statewide walking and biking database for California (Transportation Research and Education Center)
  • Learning from Paris (Momentum Mag)
  • Skate parks are growing up (Bloomberg)
  • AC transit will start automatically ticketing cars blocking bus lanes and stops this week (KTVU, Mass Transit)
  • Coastal Commission postpones hearing about Monterey-Salinas SURF proposal (a two-lane bus-only road paralleling Highway 1) (Monterey Herald, Monterey County Now)
  • Transportation tax measures on the ballot in San Diego, Placer County, Napa, San Francisco (LandLine)
  • Electric vehicles are selling in CA - 1 in 4 new sales, according to Governor's office (Governor Newsom, Sacramento Bee)
  • Caltrans to close US 395 north of Bridgeport for two weeks in September to install a wildlife crossing (Caltrans)
  • City of Boston launches an e-bike incentive pilot (Hello, California?) (Boston.com)
  • Fears about dangers of lithium batteries lead Chinese to try something potentially more dangerous: hydrogen-powered e-bikes (Technology Review)
  • "Go away": SF Mayor thinks kicking unhoused people out of city will solve homelessness (Smart Cities Dive)

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