Friday’s Headlines
Local headlines show safety measures work! Feds cutting safety workers.
7:43 AM PST on February 28, 2025
- Mountain View Adding Protected Bike Lanes (MV Voice)
- Santa Barbara “Scrambling” as E-Bike Crashes Spike (SF Gate)
- SF Slow Streets Program Made Streets Safer (KQED)
- Irvine Looks to Connect Great Park With Public Transit Through Land Swap (OC Register)
- Long Beach Making Rules for Food Delivery Robots (LB Post)
- Feds. Have Spent $1.5 Trillion on Highways Since 1991. Are We Getting Value? (T4A)
- EPA Reversing 2009 Finding That Greenhouse Gases Is Danger to Humans (Politico)
- Nowhere Is Safe from Effects of Climate Change (The Guardian)
- Transportation Safety Researchers Among Feds. Getting the Boot (CityLab)
- It’s Been a Warm Winter Meaning Low Snowpacks (LAT)
- What Does ‘Spring Ahead’ Mean for California (SacBee)
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