Today’s Headlines

7:55 AM PDT on June 12, 2020

COVID and race, risk, and workforce equity (Policy Link)
The bicycle as a vehicle of protest (New Yorker)
Trek's statement on police use of bikes (Bicycle Retailer) is "laughable" (Cycling News)
BART, Santa Clara VTA, Riverside awarded federal funds for transit improvements (CBS)
Redding still looking to expand I-5 for trucks (Record Searchlight)
Assembly passes resolution to rein in electrification of HSR (Rail Journal)
Even a ten percent drop in VMT could reap major climate benefits (Smart Cities Dive)
Convention centers suck (life and money out of cities) (Seattle Times)

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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