Vermont Beats California: First State to Offer an E-Bike Rebate
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As states across America consider subsidizing the purchase of e-bikes to get people out of cars, Vermont just quietly became the first one to actually do it.
Today’s Headlines
| | No Comments- Health impacts of heat, and how to stay alive (Fresnoland)
- ICYMI: John Oliver explains carbon offsets (YouTube)
- Trees in the Inflation Reduction Act (Time)
- Decision on extending the life of Diablo Canyon could be postponed (AP)
- California’s ban on gas cars is a massive step in the right direction (Mother Jones)
- Other states poised to follow CA’s ban on gas cars (Politico)
- People love their old gas burning cars (LA Times)
- Bikes can carry all kinds of heavy cargo (Register Guard)
- The post-covid fight over who gets to use the streets (Pew)
- L.A.’s train and bus riders outnumber the Bay Area’s (Mercury News)
- Places in LA you can easily reach via transit (LA Times)
- Why do electric cars need a 300-mile range? Most people rarely drive that far (NY Times)
- CA cities are embracing rent control (LA Times, Economist)
- Lawmakers reach a deal on CA housing bills (CBS)
- Money is no substitute for good policy, says Michael Tubbs, state advisor on poverty (SF Chronicle)
- The housing market is getting too expensive even for large house-flipping companies (Bloomberg)
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Should Public Transit Be Free? Freakonomics Asks the Experts
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Public transit is good for the environment, for economic opportunity, for social mobility, for traffic congestion.
August 2022 Board Meeting Round-Up: L.A. Metro Raises Bus Driver Starting Salaries
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L.A. Metro board gave its starting bus operators a raise, approving the outlines of a collective bargaining agreement that ups the starting driver salary to $23 an hour.
Commentary: Don’t Forget About Illegal Parking on Corners
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Sidewalk parking is a problem, but keeping the corners clear of scofflaw parkers could be key to lowering the crash rate
Opinion: Ending Our Oil Addiction Is a Moral Imperative for Inflation and the Climate
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The amount we drive is a matter of public policy, shaped by land use and transportation policies that underinvest in transit and make walking and biking ever more dangerous. We can flip that starting now.
Today’s Headlines
| | No Comments- Climate is changing, like it to or not (LA Times)
- California’s “climate migrants” never expected this (PBS)
- CA to end sales of gas cars (Reuters, EDF)
- What’s next? Lots of work to do (CalMatters)
- Now CA needs a plan for fewer cars altogether (Curbed)
- Midwest car makers already planning to switch to electric cars (Kansas City Star)
- Churches weigh in: pass bill to remove parking minimums (All Saints Church)
- Advancing climate justice over profit-led research (Stanford Social Innovation Review)
- Sharp elbows needed to get money for SoCal rail projects (Mass Transit)
More California headlines at Streetsblog LA and Streetsblog SF
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CARB Chooses E-Bike Incentive Program Manager
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Pedal Ahead, a nonprofit that provides e-bikes to San Diego residents, was chosen to run the statewide incentive program.
City Council Declines to Approve Healthy Streets L.A., Pushing It to 2024 Ballot
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Many speakers and most councilmembers favored the alternative "Safe Streets" proposal being shepherded by Council President Nury Martinez
Marin Cyclists Win a Safer Butterfield Road
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Almost 900 Marin households turned in responses to a survey on Butterfield Road--here are the results.
Talking Headways Podcast: Bus Stop Transformations
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This week, Kim Cella of Citizens for Modern Transit and Sheila Holm of AARP discuss how they are transforming transit stops in St. Louis by involving the community, engaging transit operators, and bringing life to grey spaces.
Can This Documentary Get Americans to Care About Pedestrian and Cyclist Deaths?
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A new documentary aims to tell the dramatic story of America's escalating pedestrian and cyclist death crisis — and, hopefully, inspire non-advocates to get involved in the movement to end the epidemic.