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

By Melanie Curry

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)

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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