Today’s Headlines

8:45 AM PDT on June 2, 2020

Instead of listening to protestor demands to end police brutality, police deploy tear gas and rubber bullets (SF Chronicle, Patch)
- and cities impose curfews (CalMatters, Sacramento Bee)
The violence experienced by black Americans is an every day occurrence (Grist)
City planners cannot just ignore it (Planetizen)
One Oakland protest was organized by high school students (EdSource)
Cars are weapons (Vox)
- and closing freeways is a tactic (Fox5)
Transit agencies leave people stranded (LA Times)
- which is not a good idea (Human Transit)
The looming concern: protests and coronavirus (Sacramento Bee)
Rural counties don't want to shut down but tourism isn't coming (LA Times)
Rents are finally dropping (SF Chronicle)
- but it won't help much (Sacramento Bee)

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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