Friday’s Headlines

Local headlines show safety measures work! Feds cutting safety workers.

By Damien Newton

7:43 AM PST on February 28, 2025

Photo: Prometheus Apartments in Mountain View

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)

For more headlines: SBLA , SBSF , SBUSA

Damien Newton

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