• Transit is in serious trouble (Eno Center for Transportation)
• The Bay Area transit map is an unholy mess (SF Chronicle)
• SANDAG leaders say they won’t use a “road charge” to pay for transportation plan (San Diego Union Tribune)
• Grant allows LA Community College students to ride transit for free (LA Times)
• Chilling video of a child almost run over in a crosswalk is all over media, but few note the inadequate police response (Autoblog)
• Chico to get a couple of crosswalk improvements (Enterprise-Record)
• San Jose police are using pedestrian decoys to catch, cite dangerous drivers (ABC7)
• Drivers are killing San Diego pedestrians; Newscasters offer “safety tips for pedestrians” (Fox 5)
• More on new California parking law as a win for climate and housing (LA Times, Bloomberg)
• Research: Carbon offsets for Northern California forests are based on lies (Lost Coast Output)
• Do tiny homes for homeless people help? (Mercury News)

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• Newsom signs bill to eliminate minimum parking requirements (Cal Matters, Sacramento Bee, SF Chronicle)
• Yesterday was World Car Free Day – Here are reasons to make every day car free (Forbes)
• Listen to this podcast: Killer roads (Arrested Mobility)
• Wind and solar energy is now the default for all residential and commercial ratepayers in Berkeley (Berkeleyside)
• Visalia gets $4m federal grant to widen a road “to support expansion plans of an industrial park” (Sun Gazette)
• Three women who changed the course of history on bikes (Momentum Magazine)
• A guide to conversion kits to turn your bike into an e-bike (Cycling News)
• An ode to the train trip from the Bay Area to LA: slow but beautiful (Mercury News)
• A very different ode to San Bernardino City Council meetings (The Sun)
• EV charging in CA is not quite ready (but, dude, a Ford F-150 in Berkeley?) (LA Times)

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• Slow down, wake up, and connect: The making of a walking advocate (Westword)
• Tulare County Regional Transit Authority may have to shut down all operations as of Oct 1 (Recorder Online)
• A lot of “ifs” in LA’s plan to build more bus shelters (LAist)
• Bay Area transit agencies pledged reforms; have they done it? (SF Chronicle)
• Cargo bikes can be a lot faster than delivery vans (Wired)
• SF considers banning scooters on sidewalks (Route Fifty)
• Celebrating the Taylor Yard bike and pedestrian bridge over the LA River (Arup)
• Early concepts for another Bay tunnel released (SF Examiner)
• San Diego cities’ lawsuit to limit affordable housing fails (San Diego Union Tribune)
• CA cities aim to fix homelessness by outlawing, hiding it (Politico)
• Audit: What did Oakland get for the $69 million it spent on homelessness? (SFist)
• SF Chronicle mapped property ownership in Bay Area; largest landowners own only a fraction
• Local governments (you and me) pay for costs of climate change (Yale Climate Connections)
• CA could ban sale of new diesel big rigs by 2040 (LA Times)
• CA agriculture exporters find alternative transportation (trains) to get their goods to market (23ABC)

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