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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

Melanie Curry
@StreetsblogCal

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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