Today’s Headlines

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  • California could choose housing over parking (if Governor Newsom signs the bill) (Slate)
  • Why jaywalking laws should be abolished (Traffic Technology Today)
  • Newsom signs climate bills (The Hill, Epoch Times)
  • New law will accelerate transition to zero emission buses (PR Newswire)
  • Highway boondoggles (OC Register prefers to call them “transportation boondoggles”) waste money
  • Jurors can now have transit trips to court paid for under new law (SF Gate)
  • Transit enthusiasts will attempt to ride all 27 Bay Area transit agencies in one day (SF Chronicle)
  • Approvals clear path for major transit-oriented complex near San Bruno BART station (Mercury News)
  • High-speed rail program hits another milestone: overcrossing completed in Kings County (RT&S)
  • Construction to being on multipurpose path along Highway 101 in Carpinteria (Noozhawk)
  • Santa Clara redoing plan for El Camino Real (Patch)
  • Former officials, now oil lobbyists, influence California climate policy (Capital & Main)
  • Fossil fuel extremism borders on a religion – and it’s blasphemy to point out harms (Heated)
  • America has a public bathroom crisis (Futurist Speaker)
  • Why are rich people obsessed with urban crime? (Vice)

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Governor Newsom surrounded by California state legislators

Governor Signs a Raft of Climate Bills

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Note: GJEL Accident Attorneys regularly sponsors coverage on Streetsblog San Francisco and Streetsblog California. Unless noted in the story, GJEL Accident Attorneys is not consulted for the content or editorial direction of the sponsored content. At a press conference in Vallejo today, Governor Gavin Newsom and a large cohort of legislators celebrated the passage – and signing – of […]

Today’s Headlines

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  • Curb space is valuable, and startups are noticing (Bloomberg)
  • Newsom vetoes bill to create statewide student transit pass program (LAist)
  • School traffic is the worst – give the kids transit passes (LA Times)
  • The push for federal e-bike subsidies is not over (Bicycle Retailer)
  • How the railroad strike was averted (LA Times)
  • In Japan, drivers who kill go to jail; an American wants an exception (Daily Bulletin)
  • Bay Area traffic is back to its prepandemic self (KRON)
  • New bills could make housing easier to build (San Luis Obispo)
  • CARB proposes no new diesel big rigs sold in CA in 2040 (CalMatters)
  • CA gets $150m federal infrastructure grant for Otay Mesa border crossing (Transportation Today)

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Today’s Headlines

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  • Devastating coastal algae bloom is “like a wildfire in the water” (High Country News)
  • Particulate matter is a killer, and almost half of it comes from transportation (Treehugger)
  • Railroad strike averted (AP)
  • Switching to electric cars is nowhere near enough (LA Times)
  • It took a long time, and commitment, to get the federal climate bill (EDF)
  • Driver mows down riders at Bike Party; police blame bike riders (Berkeleyside)
  • What should happen to drivers who kill bike riders? (Outside)
  • Google maps could do a much better job on biking (Protocol)
  • Newsom signs bill stemming from shooting at San Jose transit facility (Spotlight)
  • San Diego reforms its neighborhood planning groups to make them more diverse (San Diego Union Tribune)
  • Ontario is overrun with giant warehouses (The Guardian)
  • Stop calling Charles “the Climate King” (Heated)

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