Today’s Headlines
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- California Transportation Commission approves $17.4b for highway funding (Transport Topics)
- Study teases out potential effects of coronavirus on freight industry (Logistics Management)
- The 200-year-old answer to the 2020 crisis (Forbes)
- There's still hope for shared bikes and scooters (Washington Post)
- UK could see a huge surge in bike commuting (Cycling Weekly)
- Central London will be closed to cars (The Guardian)
- U.S.-China tensions could hurt American bike supply (Capradio)
- Highway funding in new House COVID bill reinforces inequities (Eno Center for Transportation)
- The other costs of online shopping and package deliveries (Car and Driver)
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Friday’s Headlines
Replace delivery trucks with e-cargo bikes, already; Carbon offsets are the opposite of helpful; Republicans push USDOT not to fund CA HSR; More
