Friday’s Headlines
Thieves and vandals are disrupting new Caltrain electrified trains; In SF, people are being arrested for being homeless; Why is LA protecting single-family areas from rezoning for more housing? More
8:28 AM PDT on September 27, 2024
- Thieves and vandals are disrupting new electric Caltrain service (San Mateo Daily Journal)
- SF Muni celebrates relaunch of the L Taraval (SF.gov)
- Why are LA officials protecting single-family areas from rezoning for more housing? (LA Times)
- In San Francisco, unhoused people are being arrested – most of them for being unhoused – as sweeps remove tents (SF Standard)
- Fresno hosts a Clean Mobility Summit (ABC)
- The fight over how to keep gas prices down is fraught (CalMatters, Union of Concerned Scientists)
- Governor Newsom should veto these four bills (Legal Planet)
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