Gavin Newsom's campaign promises included creating single-payer healthcare and building 3.5 million housing units, later dismissed as aspirational, raising questions about their feasibility.
The journey really was a political one. We had a new leader, a new first minister, and he had a progressive package of policies, and road safety was part of that, and then putting us on a climate trajectory to get us to net zero was another part of that. There wasn't, a particular strong read across with those at the beginning, and I was charged with trying to implement them, so we did a number of things, and we did them all at once, if you like.