Tuesday’s Headlines
More fallout from the legislature and lots of good local planning.
8:44 AM PDT on September 16, 2025
- More on Bay Area Regional Transit Funding Measure/SB 63 (MercNews, DailyJournal)
- Legislature Tried to Speed Up Homebuilding. Was It Enough? (SacBee)
- More on SB 79 (LB Post, Davis Vanguard, CalMatters)
- Eureka Begins Work on Protected Bikeway This Weekend (Lost Coast Outpost)
- San Diego Approves Parking Fees in Balboa Park (Union-Trib)
- WeHo Approves Controversial Road Safety Project (Biking in LA)
- 10 Years Later Pasadena Approves First/Last Mile Plan for Rail Station (Pasadena Now)
- Waymo Coming to Oakland? (Oaklandside)
- Bay Area Heavyweights Had to Beg Newsom to Keep Word on Bay Area Transit Funds (Politico)
- Vehicular homicides Far More Common than Murders on Transit (The New Republic)
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