Today’s Headlines

8:52 AM PDT on June 5, 2020

Feds move to restrict states' rights to oppose pipelines (NY Times)
Trump signs executive order waiving environmental laws to speed up highway, pipeline construction
Violent behavior by LAPD is being documented for everyone to see (LA Times)
Shelter-at-home doesn't mean safe for everyone: domestic violence calls increase, severity worsens (SF Chronicle)
CDC recommendations on taking transit are blind to reality (CNBC)
San Bernardino County drops light rail study, gives go-ahead to Musk's tunnel idea (The Mercury News, RT&S)
League of American Bicyclists likes parts of the federal transportation bill
Biking in LA rounds up some disturbing ways people are using cars and bikes as weapons
Climate resilience bond, other bills move forward in state legislature (AgriPulse)
Planned safety projects deferred in Davis with funding losses due to COVID (Davis Enterprise)

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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