Today’s Headlines

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• Slow streets are the path to a better city (Curbed)
• Rents will drop in the short term, but that may not help long-term affordability (CBS)
• Greenhouse gas emissions dropped, but will that be sustained? (SF Chronicle)
• How to have a safe family bike ride (NY Times)
• Use a bike for at least one trip per week: #GoByBike (PR Newswire)
• Have we been relying on traffic deaths for organ donations?? (Kaiser Health News)
• Universal telecommuting could increase greenhouse gas emissions, traffic (SSTI)
• CA stands to lose a lot of transportation revenue (Planetizen)
• How Kansas City’s experiment with zero-fare transit is going (U.S. PIRG)
• UC Berkeley to test, deploy sensors and “smart” technology to manage on-campus parking, traffic (Odessa Arts Online)

More California headlines at Streetsblog LA and Streetsblog SF