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Today’s Headlines

8:37 AM PDT on May 11, 2020

    • San Diego embraces slow streets (NBC)
    • Pro-fossil fuels group threatens a protest "with no social distancing" to stop a vote on banning natural gas (LA Times)
    • Tesla flaunts shelter-in-place orders (CNBC); Elon pitches a fit (CBS12)
    • Cities that rely on sales taxes are really scrambling right now (CalMatters)
    • Bay Area cities start looking for cuts (SF Chronicle)
    • "Global Clean Energy" buys Bakersfield refinery, will convert to renewable diesel (Green Car Congress)
    • L.A. air quality improved - for a short time (Daily Bruin)
    • Santa Barbara is "ready to reopen" (Santa Ynez Valley News)
    • Pandemic is an opportunity to rethink city design (Modesto Bee)
    • Europe sees Airbnb slump as a chance to reclaim some housing (The Guardian)
    • England to invest big time in bicycling, walking facilities (Forbes)
    • Aramark backs down from threat to quickly evict employees it laid off in Yosemite (KMPH)
    • Blue ribbon task force to "guide recovery of transit network" in Bay Area (The Press)
    • Construction firm gets $8m bonus from Caltrans for finishing early (Island Packet)

More California headlines at Streetsblog LA and Streetsblog SF

Melanie Curry

Streetsblog California editor Melanie Curry has been thinking about transportation, and how to improve conditions for bicyclists, since her early days commuting by bike to UCLA long ago. She was Managing Editor at the East Bay Express, and edited Access Magazine for the University of California Transportation Center. She also earned her Masters in City Planning from UC Berkeley.

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