• NTSB chair calls for fundamental rethink of transportation planning (Smart Cities Dive)
• Saving public transportation and the untapped potential of listening (The City Fix)
• Brompton bike company urges cities to become safer and sustainable (Bicycling)
• Illinois passes a groundbreaking equitable climate bill (NRDC)
• Amsterdam built an underwater bike garage/aquatic habitat (Fast Company)
• Bruce’s Beach to be returned to family’s heirs (California City News)
• Court rules that San Mateo improperly denied a housing development (San Mateo Daily Journal)
• Coastal fog is declining worldwide as climate shifts (Santa Cruz Lookout)

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• Traffic noise may increase risk of dementia (Medical News Today)
• Five bills to make California streets safer and healthier (NRDC)
• CA exploring vehicle miles traveled fee to replace gas tax (North Bay Business Journal)
• SANDAG and Caltrans look for feedback on improvements to Coat, Canyons and Trails corridor – SR 52 (La Jolla Light)
• Revolt of the delivery workers (Curbed)
• E-bikes flatten the city (PubliCola)
• E-bike tax credit gets eviscerated (Systemic Failure)
• Census data shows where housing was built in Oakland – and where all the Black people went (Darrell Owens)
• Sequoia fires, two of many burning in CA, threaten world’s largest trees (SF Chronicle)
• Eviction notices are rising in San Francisco (SF Chronicle)

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• Report: Climate-friendly transportation planning makes economic sense (Colorado Public Radio)
• US lawmakers to vote this week on transit, high-speed rail funding (Reuters, Washington Post)
• Research on pedestrian movements wins IgNobel prize (Expatica)
• How to end the American dependence on driving (Vox)
• San Jose considers dropping minimum parking requirements (Patch)
• Woman sues SF over parking ticket, saying chalk violates her rights (SF Chronicle)
• Oakland to get CHP help to “crack down” on speeding, reckless driving (Mercury News)
• Homeless “sweep” in Berkeley did not mean everyone there got housing (CapRadio)
• Why Berkeley’s mayor changed his mind on housing (Business Insider)

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• The FTA is asking: What should be the criteria for transit funding? Weigh in! (Human Transit)
• Parts shortage hampers maintenance of electric buses (SGV Tribune)
• High-speed rail funding impasse threaten layoffs, delays (Merced Sun Star)
• Advocates call for more transit funding in federal bill (Smart Cities Dive)
• Competing local visions for redeveloping the A’s stadium in Oakland (SF Chronicle)
• Proponents push for another crossing under the San Francisco Bay (CBS)
• Why the future of freight matters (Newsweek)
• Is the coal industry behind the effort to revive a dead Northern California railway? (Salt Lake City Tribune)

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