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Today's Headlines

Today’s Headlines

7:40 AM PST on March 4, 2020

    • CA bills take aim at ride-hail emissions (CalMatters)
    • Public transit is not usually the culprit in pandemics, despite what people think (Vice)
    • The U.S. cities trying to make transit free (CNBC)
    • After 2 years of delay, Palo Alto is about to get scooters (Palo Alto Online)
    • Envisioning a city center in the empty heart of Berkeley (Berkeleyside)
    • Report: SoCal electric vehicle industry is busy, growing (LA Times)
    • NASA's efforts to develop "urban aerial transportation" (TechCrunch)
    • Apple offers $150m to affordable housing developers (Curbed)
    • Cautionary tale from Reno about tech and housing (Curbed)

More California headlines at Streetsblog LA and Streetsblog SF

Melanie Curry
@StreetsblogCal

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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