Today’s Headlines

8:45 AM PST on February 5, 2019

Pedestrian deaths are a public health crisis (MNN.com)
New study shows pollution from traffic affects student's test scores, school performance (CityLab)
Self-driving cars could more than double San Francisco traffic (SF Chronicle)
US Postal Service begins acquiring electric vehicles in Central Valley (PR Newswire)
S.B. 100 is moving CA cities towards zero-emission futures (CityLab)
Sacramento will soon get Jump scooters (Sacramento Bee)
It's been The Year of the Scooter (The Drive)
Mapping wealth in Los Angeles (Nick Underwood)
San Jose gives $100 million to eleven affordable housing developments (Silicon Valley Business Journal)
Gee, how wonderful: Soon it will no longer be illegal for homeless people to live in cars in San Diego (San Diego Union Tribune)

More California headlines at Streetsblog LA and Streetsblog SF

Streetsblog California editor Melanie Curry has been thinking about transportation, and how to improve conditions for bicyclists, ever since commuting to school by bike long before bike lanes were a thing. She was Managing Editor at the East Bay Express, editor of Access Magazine for the University of California Transportation Center, and earned her Masters in City Planning from UC Berkeley.

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