Today’s Headlines

8:48 AM PDT on June 11, 2020

Why we must talk about race when we talk about bicycling (Bicycling)
CPUC says: yeah, Uber & Lyft - your drivers are employees (NBC)
State bill would bar evictions for nonpayment of rent during pandemic (SF Chronicle)
CA judicial council puts off vote to suspend COVID-related evictions (KCRA)
Data: Bay Area residents pushed stay-at-home orders to the limit (East Bay Times)
Musk's tunnel gets the go-ahead because ... it would cost less?!? (Construction Dive)
LAPD's use of batons and other weapons against unarmed protesters violated their own rules (LA Times)
No, people are not asking for "community policing" (LA Times)
SF Police Chief says he's open to defunding the police - partly (SF Chronicle)
But the police union has other ideas
Berkeley to get slow streets (Berkeleyside)

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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